Friday, May 16, 2008

Walkin' In My Hood - Mystery Plants

As I have been walking to work this week, I've noticed many plants that I can't identify!!! I thought I'd put them on here, for your visual pleasure and also because maybe you can help me identify them! Here are some of my random plant friends:

1. Mystery plant of cuteness:

This plant seems to grow in borders, and has light purple-ish flowers.

2. Mystery flowering wilty shrub:

Light pink flowers... so pretty!!! I want one of these in my yard... it reminds me of what would happen if a weeping willow & a cherry tree had babies. Anyone know what it could be?

3. Are these Columbines? I had columbines in my yard, but they were always orange. Do Columbines come in pretty colors too? (Like pink and purple, in the pics?)
4. Mystery Tree - This tree is SO PRETTY!!! I love it's pinkness...

And here is it's little flowers, close up!!! Is this a cherry tree, maybe?
5. Mystery waterfall bush

What the heck IS this thing?!
6. Mystery Flower of Puffballness!
Oh, look at the pretty purple fluffball... wnat IS it?

7. Orange Shrub of Mystery

I have one of these in my yard, only it is smaller and pink. I'd really like to know what it is.

Any of you know what these little guys are?

10 comments:

Trekkie4Ever said...

What beautiful plants and flowers, and sadly I have no idea on what their names are.

Suzie Ridler said...

Oh my! Those are so lovely! Lover-ly. I know nothing about flowers though, so bad! Names just fall out of my head. I'm sure other people will know though.

Our Home Schooler and Jen said...

beautiful photos :)
Jen

Tammy said...

Pretty! The only one I think I know is the puffball flower - it looks like chive flowers to me. They bloom out into flowers and are very pretty!! :)

Anonymous said...

Ok, here's my attempt at identifying your mystery plants.

1. Creeping Phlox. It's a perennial that comes in various shades of pink, purple and white. It loves sidewalks and cascades. I had it at the old place.
2.Japanese Flowering Cherry Tree
3.I think you are right that it is columbine. It comes in other colors than orange.
4. Cherry tree for sure
5.Looks like an overgrown spirea bush!
6.I can't remember this guys name, but it is a bulb cause I used to have it a LONG time ago.
7.I have this in my yard too, only smaller and it has pink flowers but I was wondering what it is myself. Hopefully someone will know.

Anonymous said...

1. phlox which comes in white and bright pink among others.
2. looks like a week cherry
3. if that's columbine it's totally different than what I have leaf wise - but what I can see of the blue looks columbinish
4. looks more like a crabapple than a cherry - the bark doesn't look like cherry
5. I've always caled that I bridal bush but spirea is probably right (and that's a hosta sitting under it. I love hostas. so do deer and rabbits. sigh)
6. Allium - onion family
7. A very very pretty flame azalea.

I love plants.

Anonymous said...

Oh, cool! Tami knew the ones I didn't! I didn't know that azalea looked like that! Mine are pink, but they are so different than the kind I had at my old house. Cool!

Princess Jami said...

The purple and yellow flowers do look like columbine. That is the state flower for Colorado. :-)

Anonymous said...

that's "weeping" cherry, not week cherry - where were my fingers going? you gotta wonder at the disconnect sometimes....

Princess Jami said...

There really is a "weeping cherry"?! That is too cool.