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Ditto on the viburnum. You should be experiencing a wonderful scent, too! Might want to get in there after blooming season and tidy up some of those overlapping branches.
So glad the native varieties of this shrub are being used again in new public installations and homes. The native is a versatile plant. Some places consider the cultivars an invasive.
Wow, are you a lucky duck to have inerited such a mature specimen! I love "snowball bush", but don't have one. There is a really large in at an old house in town, though, that blooms beautifully every year and I get to enjoy it as I drive to and from the store.
Thanks everyone! I was waiting for more to confirm, but was way too excited to learn I have a hydrangea
My FMIL couldn't think of the name of the tree and when I told her, she said that's it! She knows many 'old ladies' who grew them in Brooklyn. She knows one lady in her 90s who still has a hydrangea from when she was a kid.
It's amazing that all the plants that were planted at the house are healthy. There are lots of hostas, a couple of azaleas, and a rhododendron.
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Yep, yep......snowball bush/tree! Love them, both while green and after they turn that gorgeous, creamy white! In fact, I've got a bouquet of them on the dining room table, right now! Enjoy! You can keep the pruned and you'll get the nicest, fullest, loaded bush!!
The green has actually started to turn white. I thought the tree was done blooming, but good to know the white is normal.
I actually trimmed the tree before it bloomed a while back, but it really needs a trimming on top.
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Originally Posted by Luvvarkansas
Wow, are you a lucky duck to have inerited such a mature specimen! I love "snowball bush", but don't have one. There is a really large in at an old house in town, though, that blooms beautifully every year and I get to enjoy it as I drive to and from the store.
The house is from the 1940's, I wouldn't be surprised if it was planted that long ago.
Thanks everyone! I was waiting for more to confirm, but was way too excited to learn I have a hydrangea
Were you kidding about the hydrangea, or were you referring to the fact that another one of the plants in your yard is a hydrangea? Because a viburnum is not a hydrangea.
Were you kidding about the hydrangea, or were you referring to the fact that another one of the plants in your yard is a hydrangea? Because a viburnum is not a hydrangea.
Sorry, yes I was referring to another plant in my yard that is a hydrangea.
Still, to this day, it's one of the "coolest" shrubs there are. The one we have, also likely was put in not long after the house was built in '32, but decades of neglect/abuse were not kind to it. Over the years, I've taken it from a gnarly, twisted, weird looking object, back to a nice, neat, tidy fellow.
My poor MIL, LOL. With 11 kids, 6 of them boys?....the poor woman had to fight tooth and nail to protect anything "plant like" on this place. I truly believe that's one of the reasons that she was so tickled for hubby and I to buy the old family place. She remembered what it looked like BEFORE she had all those kids and wanted to see it beautiful again!
Smart move on MIL's part. Sell it to the only children with landscaping and handyman skills!
I have a few more that need identifying, if I could have more help.
1) I thought this may be a type of viburnum, specifically viburnum tinus, but the ones I found on Google were all five petals, while these have some four. The flowers feel...I don't know how to describe it, rubbery? The plant is in need of some TLC:
2) This was such a small little thing a couple of weeks ago, now it's growing tall. I don't know where to begin to even identify it. It looks like a type of tree, maybe?
3) This one also started growing fast. It was hard to spot at first, since it was behind a hosta. Now, it's taller than it.
4) Apology for the blurry pic, but I've spotted at least a dozen of these little guys. I thought they were a weed at first, but it has a seed:
Sorry for all the pics and questions. I'd just like to be able to care for these guys.
I have a few more that need identifying, if I could have more help.
1) I thought this may be a type of viburnum, specifically viburnum tinus, but the ones I found on Google were all five petals, while these have some four. The flowers feel...I don't know how to describe it, rubbery? The plant is in need of some TLC:
2) This was such a small little thing a couple of weeks ago, now it's growing tall. I don't know where to begin to even identify it. It looks like a type of tree, maybe?
3) This one also started growing fast. It was hard to spot at first, since it was behind a hosta. Now, it's taller than it.
4) Apology for the blurry pic, but I've spotted at least a dozen of these little guys. I thought they were a weed at first, but it has a seed:
#1 is a Miss Kim Lilac.
It grows into a fairly compact bush with lots of short branches and smaller, tighter flowers than "regular" lilac; not really suitable for cut flowers but the scent is the same heavenly lilac scent
The leaves are smaller than regular lilac as well.
#4 is an oak tree growing from an acorn
#3 might be a very young mulberry tree; the early leaves don't have the distinguishing notch in them yet. Unless you want one, get rid of it early; they grow very fast (but won't bear fruit the first year, or even the second). Birds love the berries as much as people do--if not more.
#2 - had one of those growing too, and was waiting to see what it would turn into, but Hurricane Sandy uprooted other trees around it and it didn't make it. Thought it might be in the cedar family but could be totally wrong. I'm hoping that the birds will present me with another one somewhere
Are you talking about the background on image #4? I had planted some mums in that same pattern in the fall. I didn't think they would make it in the harsh winter we had.
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