Can you identify these?

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » May 17, 2005 1:54 pm

I have two shrubs and a tree that I would like to identify. I"ll the the other two in separte posts. DH saw this somewhere in the neighborhood and took these pics. Does anyone know what it is?

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » May 17, 2005 1:58 pm

This shrub grew in one of my hosta beds and I just liked the way it looked so I left it there. It kept getting bigger but it never bloomed. I was going to dig it out this year and surprise!

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » May 17, 2005 2:01 pm

This one has thorns on it. We noticed this year that it has a sweet fragrance.

I would love to know what they all are. If you recognize any of them please let me know.

Snow · Post by **Snow** » May 17, 2005 2:59 pm

Top one sure looks like a magnolia tree? The middle one looks like a honeysuckle bush. Not sure about the 3rd one.

patsue53 · Post by **patsue53** » May 17, 2005 10:24 pm

Yep, what Snow said.

I bought my honeysuckle 3 years ago at a plant sale put on by a local gardening club. I planted it by my back fence thinking it was going to be a vine. It's a bush!

It was going to go into the compost pile if it didn't bloom this year.....so of course it did!

Old earth dog · Post by **Old earth dog** » May 17, 2005 10:57 pm

YOur honeysuckle shrub, probably Lonicera tatarica, will get red berries all over it. Then, the birds will spread it all over the place. That's how your's got there. There are a few cultivars with red flowers. 'Arnold Red' comes to mind.
I'm scratchin my head on that thorny one.

viktoria · Post by **viktoria** » May 18, 2005 6:32 am

That honeysuckle is a noxious weed. Get rid of it!

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » May 18, 2005 3:43 pm

Thanks so much Snow, Pat, OED and Viktoria!

I thought the first one was a Magnolia tree. An acquaintance of DH's told him it was not a tree but a shrub because of the multiple trunks. I tried searching the web but just couldn't find anything. After I read the replies here, I typed Magnolia Tree into my search and found a common and botanical name, Saucer Magnolia ~ Magnolia x soulangiana. With that info, I found a University of Illinois site and it says this tree is multi-stemmed.

I had the slightest inkling that the second shrub might be a Honeysuckle because the flowers resembled the vine from he[[ that I've been fighting in the yard. I'm glad to have a confirmation. I will be removing it now that I know it will try to take over.

I wonder what the last one could be.

patsue53 · Post by **patsue53** » May 18, 2005 5:08 pm

That honeysuckle is a noxious weed. Get rid of it!

But...I LIKE it!!

It reminds me of the one that grew by our back door when I was a kid.

jay dee · Post by **jay dee** » May 18, 2005 6:24 pm

Pat - Please, feel free to come to my house and take all the honeysuckle you want. We have hundred's of feet of fence with this growing in them. Some are 20' tall. We even have a tool called a honeysuckle popper, so it will be easy for you to take all you want.

Just call me,

generous jay dee

patsue53 · Post by **patsue53** » May 18, 2005 11:47 pm

Thanks JayDee but I think one will be enough. In fact, I have a feeling that someday I'll be sorry I didn't get rid of it.

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » May 19, 2005 12:05 am

I like it too, Pat. In fact, I was going to leave it until I saw Viktoria's post. Is yours like mine or something different?

My mom remembers a honeysuckle bush from when she was a little girl. She says it had yellow flowers. I was really tickled when this thing bloomed this year.

I'm thinking about keeping it again. If I prune it when it's finished blooming, and it does need pruning, then it won't get berries and it won't multiply. I'm wondering why I have never seen any others anywhere around the neighborhood.

viktoria · Post by **viktoria** » May 19, 2005 6:11 am

You haven't seen others because your neighbors were smart enough to get rid of (or never plant it in the first place) a shrub that is on every state's list of noxious weeds.

treelover3 · Post by **treelover3** » May 20, 2005 8:16 am

The magnolia is a Saucer magnolia, Magnolia x soulangiana (or sometimes spelled x soulangeana).

The Saucer magnolia is a very popular tree (or very large shrub) and there are at least 30 cultivars of this plant selected for flower color, bloom time, etc. Some of the more unusual types may only be available via mail order.
Mike

patsue53 · Post by **patsue53** » May 21, 2005 11:02 pm

Mine is exactly like yours Patrushka. I decided to do some research on the plant since I don't want to be responsible for spreading an invasive plant (but don't take kindly to arbitrary orders

) I found this article that has convinced me that my poor honeysuckle has to go. http://www.inhs.uiuc.edu/chf/outreach/VMG/bhnysckl.html

Just a side note....I was tickled to see the name of the author of this article. Randy was one of the kids in my neighborhood when I was growing up! I had heard that he was a conservationist working for the State of Ilinois but havn't seen or talked to him in at least 30 years!

Patrushka · Post by **Patrushka** » May 22, 2005 12:42 am

Thanks Mike. That's the name I found in my google search.

Well, someone must not have been smart enough to get rid of it or I wouldn't have one growing in my hosta bed.

I guess it has to go! After my experience with the pretty honeysuckle vine which I later found out was Hall's Honeysuckle , I certainly don't want to be responsible for proliferating these. The Hall's vines are going to get a nice drink of round up this year because I am tired of fighting them.

Pat. It's a small world, isn't it?