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Post by ladybird on Jun 1, 2015 12:22:26 GMT
My friend has just sent me a picture of a climbing plant she would like to know the name of . It climber all over the place and is now ascending a drain pipe . she wonders if it is invasive . It has light lilac coloured flowers in the summer . It is not prickly.  |
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Post by ladybird on Jun 1, 2015 16:08:34 GMT
just searching through the net I came accross a climbing hydrangea with similar leaves but the flowers are white .Is there a climbing hydrangea with lilac flowers ?
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Post by SueA on Jun 3, 2015 19:14:47 GMT
I don't think it's a climbing hydrangea ladybird, the leaves do look a bit bramble-like but as you say it's not prickly that doesn't sound likely. The only thing I can think of which is a rampant climber with lilac flowers is solanum 'Glasnevin' but the leaves don't look exactly the same, it could be something in that family or maybe deadly nightshade but that's not really a climber, more a shrub. |
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Post by Cherry on Jun 3, 2015 19:45:03 GMT
Your musings are correct SueA, because the leaves are opposite in the picture. Solanum leaves are not opposite. Could it be a Wisteria? |
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Post by ladybird on Jun 4, 2015 13:02:01 GMT
my friend tells me the stems climbed up the guttering pipe and hardened to wood . she cut it down because it was so rampant . I saw an elder the other day I wonder if it could be that, it grows really quick . not a wisteria cherry I asked about the shape of the flower .
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Post by daitheplant on Jun 4, 2015 18:50:38 GMT
I agree with Cherry, it`s a Wisteria.  |
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Post by Cherry on Jun 4, 2015 19:04:40 GMT
I saw a poor Wisteria today with flowers which would never be described as being like normal Wisteria. They were just short blobs of blue.
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Post by Lou78W on Jun 4, 2015 19:18:53 GMT
Nah!!!...doesn't look like a wisteria to me........
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Post by Cherry on Jun 4, 2015 19:34:49 GMT
I don't think it is going to get a name Lou78W. Bit like my poor plant waiting to be identified. |
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Post by daitheplant on Jun 5, 2015 20:05:17 GMT
Wisteria leaves.  |
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Post by Cherry on Jul 28, 2015 19:39:08 GMT
This tree was growing at Plockton, acid soil. I really loved it. Who knows what this is please?   |
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Post by SueA on Jul 29, 2015 8:41:16 GMT
Could be a Japanese Stewartia maybe Cherry? It looks very pretty, & I suppose it must be quite hardy if it's growing up there? |
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Post by esther on Jul 29, 2015 12:00:01 GMT
I think Sue could be right Cherry  |
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Post by Cherry on Jul 29, 2015 12:02:06 GMT
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Post by Fractal on Jul 31, 2015 6:45:53 GMT
Stewartia is one of my favourite of all small trees. Beautiful specimen.
The earlier post by the way looks like a Common Ash seedling (Fraxinus exelsior).
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