The first is a plant that I'm sure I planted but I'm not sure why. The blooms are insignificant; maybe a medicinal plant?
The second is some type of oregano but I've never had oregano with such pretty blooms. Does anyone know what type this is?
Two Mysteries
And please, Dave's Garden- a photo flipping option?!
That bloom looks exactly like a Mondarda to me?
Let me re-phrase...it is some type of Monarda. Never tried growing them here but who knows? You do get a lot more moisture than I do. First plant looks familiar but I don't know who it is.
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Does Monarda smell like oregano? I really need to remember that I WON"T remember what I've planted without writing it down.
Thanks,Newton's! It looks like Monarda Pawnee from the plant files.
Monarda leaves do smell but not like oregano to me? There are many varieties of pink monarda.
I don't know the first plant either, and as Cheryl said the second is monarda, very pretty.
Thank you, Frostweed! The first one doesn't look like a weed but I can't figure out what it is or why I planted it.
sweetmommy I am trying to label things in my garden and I find mini blinds cut in strips and wrote on with pencil as pencil doesn't seem to bleach out with the sun. Hope this helps
ilovejesus99- I went to the Thrift Shop 2 years ago and bought an old set of Venetian blinds that I cut up to do that but it wore off quickly. I've tried charcoal pencil, sharpie, and paint pens to no avail. T
#2 lead pencil works great on plastic blinds! It doesn't fade and doesn't wash off.
I found a plant pot out in my yard this year from another dger from yrs ago and it was written in pencil on a mini blind. I know I haven't been to a RU with her for over 7 yrs because the person whom went with me passed away 7 yrs ago. I couldn't believe my eyes when I found it in the pot and saw the name on it and could actually read it. This year I started using pencil on the vinyl mini blinds a friend gave me. I do know they are #2 pencils as that is all I buy for GDG's for school. Was using sharpie last yr and it doesn't last a year :(
Maybe I was trying too hard with the charcoal pencil. I'll try it with #2s. I still can't figure out what that plant is though....
sweetmommy? are the leaves aromatic on plant 1? Like an edible herb?
The first one might be Salvia elegans, Pineapple Sage. I notice that it has square stems and the blooms are spaced about as far apart as S. elegans.
Regarding labeling I made the mistake of using an orange sharpie I think they were faded before I got in the house. Lol. I use regular plant labels that I buy 1000 to a roll. I have found that turning them away from the sun. Yes, you can't see it without looking on the "back" but it lasts a lot longer.
I kept thinking sage, salvia, mint...wasnt finding resources.
Where do you buy your plant labels and what do they look like? Yes black sharpie faded before I got in the house also :(
I have some Pineapple Sage but this isn't one. This guy is about 4 feet tall and the leaves smell good but not like sage/salvia, although they are shaped like a sage/salvia and a little fuzzy. I've asked several neighbors who are Master Gardeners and no one knows what it is. Still a mystery
there is a native sage called tall mountain sage. check that one out.
Let me check where I got the labels. If I forget dmail me, please. The black sharpie works fine if I keep it turned towards the plant, the orange was the one that faded so fast.
Is this sumac, poison ivy, or poison oak? It has a red stem and smothers out good plants.
It is not poison ivy, if it is a vine it looks like Trumpet vine to me.
Thank you, Josephine. Appreciate your knowledge.
flowerette? This thick root growing up the pine tree is a crossvine, beside it is a poison ivy/oak. I work at killing both the poison varieties... the rest are pix of crossvine just starting and growing up thru the porch. anything that sits still they will cling to. They vine under ground and pop up everywhere
Kitt, I think your pictures are of Trumpet vine, not Crossvine, unless they call it crossvine where you live.
same thing, this is the wild one. The ones you guys plant were once originally these...she's on the Gulf Coast, these things are hard to kill cuz the vines go so deep. They DO kill other things out...
Regarding the labels, I finally figured it out. I got them at John Henry, under tags. They are in a roll, to be printed on a computer but that's WAY beyond me. Lol.
They have a min. order of 2000 but they are .03 a lable so I can't beat it. They have other types of tags that may not have a minimum order. It might be worth checking out.
Campsis radicans = trumpet vine
Bignonia capreolata - cross vine
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Family: Bignoniaceae
Crossvine, Bignonia capreolata, any member of the trumpet/creeper family and includes Anisostichus capreolata, Doxantha capreolata, and Anisostichus crucigera
Trumpet vine, definition; any climbing plant belonging to genus Campsis of the Bignonia family, esp C radicans of the Southern US, also Bignonia radicans and Tecoma radicans.
your less lax in pinpointing, but the only issue is she says it has red stems, and these are green to dark green leaves and stems...
Also Crossvine is evergreen, which Trumpet vine is not.
what trumpet vine has red stems?
the monarda got ID'd I see.. plant 1 does resemble a salvia of some type,
I haven't grown trumpet vine in years as it is a pretty rampant spreader. I know they are related but otherwise are quite different from one another.
@ sweetmomma..... I love the Monarda and it grows great for me. I have the 'Raspberry wine' .
Regarding labels....I use the mini blinds cut in half with a pencil for marking. They have lasted so much longer than anything else I have ever tried and they are free!!
The number one plant above was ID'd in the other forum as Salvia confertiflora, red velvet sage.
Thanks Marty! Here it is on PF. http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/350508/ ....same one Sweetmommy?
The flowers in the pic look really different from the ones on PF? Is it just a close up on here.
That's it!! Thank you all! I'm still not sure why I planted it though.
Flowerette- It could be a Pepper Vine too. I have Crossvine, Trumpet Vine & Pepper Vine, all, on my property and I can only tell them apart when they bloom. If it doesn't have a significant bloom then it's probably Pepper Vine.