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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: John Aipassa on August 22, 2012, 09:20:38 AM

Title: ID needed
Post by: John Aipassa on August 22, 2012, 09:20:38 AM: Hello friends,

Can anyone tell me what kind of flowering plant this is? It is growing in front of a friend's house between the pavement and the brick road. It is pretty, but I can't tell what it is.

Thank you.
Title: Re: ID needed
Post by: Paul T on August 22, 2012, 09:46:00 AM: John,

It is Hibiscus trionum I think. If you put it down in the ID section (down towards the bottom of the main page) you may get more people to read and respond. I think I'm right, but I don't mind at all being corrected. ;D
Title: Re: ID needed
Post by: Brian Ellis on August 22, 2012, 09:48:06 AM: Yes I think so too John, an annual isn't it?
Title: Re: ID needed
Post by: Maggi Young on August 22, 2012, 09:59:31 AM: I've moved the thread to the ID section, for the sake of neatness. ;)

Must win the prize as one of the prettiest street "weeds" - nothing so showy in our gutters :-X
Title: Re: ID needed
Post by: John Aipassa on August 22, 2012, 10:29:31 AM: Thank you all.

If it is an anual, than I must get my paintbrush to get some seed and plant it in the garden for next year.
Title: Re: ID needed
Post by: Paul T on August 22, 2012, 10:57:58 AM: John,

I'd keep an eye on it in your garden for a while and see how it goes. It has a reputation as a bit of a weed. Lovely flowers though. Mine died out.... go figure!! ::)
Title: Re: ID needed
Post by: John Aipassa on August 22, 2012, 11:35:21 AM: Quote from: Paul T on August 22, 2012, 10:57:58 AM
John,

I'd keep an eye on it in your garden for a while and see how it goes. It has a reputation as a bit of a weed. Lovely flowers though. Mine died out.... go figure!! ::)

Paul,

Please tell me your secret to keep weeds out of your garden ;). I am fed up with weeding :P.
Title: Re: ID needed
Post by: Paul T on August 22, 2012, 12:20:20 PM: John,

If I had one, I would pass it on. Unfortunately, I have weed nemeses as well....... LOTS of them. ::) Obviously though the "weeds" that I want to grow won't!! :o At least in the case of that Hibiscus. Then again, the definition of a weed is just a plant that is growing in the wrong place. ;) In this case the wrong place is "not my garden". :P
Title: Re: ID needed
Post by: Lvandelft on August 22, 2012, 10:55:47 PM: Quote from: John Aipassa on August 22, 2012, 10:29:31 AM
Thank you all.

If it is an anual, than I must get my paintbrush to get some seed and plant it in the garden for next year.
No need for a paintbrush John. It sets lots of seeds and BTW I just found a few seedling this spring where they grew last year.
I had this plant already 40 years ago but lost it till I received 2 years ago a seed packet fro a kind old Lady in England :D
This year I mixed the new young plants whith Dahlia Bishop of Llandaff which looks tremendous!
I believe seedlings, if to many, are easily removed so don't be afraid for it in our climate.
Title: Re: ID needed
Post by: Maggi Young on August 22, 2012, 11:34:20 PM: Quote
This year I mixed the new young plants whith Dahlia Bishop of Llandaff which looks tremendous!
That sounds like a very pretty combination- I will suggest it to a friend who is very fond of "the Bishop" :)
Title: Re: ID needed
Post by: John Aipassa on August 23, 2012, 01:36:25 PM: Thank you Luit. The combination with the Bishop looks to be a good idea. I may want to copy that 8) :-X.