Quiz: Do you know plants

There are 12 plants in this picture. Of course, some are farther away. The couple that have bloomed are no brainers, but can you tell a plant by it's foliage? If you get the small hard to see one's you are excellent. I think 5 is good. The 3 in front of the purple one count as one, as they are the same plant. By the way, if they weren't mine I would have gotton maybe 3 lol. Luckily the sun is finally supposed to shine, if you are too busy in your garden to do this, I say finally, thank God for the sun.
Vicki

Vicky. the one in front of the purple bush, is that not a Cornflower, Montana ?

well, I'm sure I'm way off... but I'll give a few of them a shot. the one to the left of the pink rhody is maybe a rosebush or a rose relative. then the Rhododendron might be "pink petticoats" or "dwarf pink", but who knows.... there's a lot of pink rhody's! then to the right of the is maybe an Aster, possibly latiflorous prince or lady in black. behind that, can't tell as it's hard to see in the photo... maybe a dianthus. then there's the purple aster or mum? It seems too early though for those. The tree behind that, way to far away to tell anything for certain though, sort of looks like a flowering cherry or apricot. To the right of that looks like possibly on of those ornamental artichokes.

Redchic - you are too brave!! I couldn't even hazard a guess at this distance. The eyes are not what they used to be. It'll be fun to see how close you get.

I have no idea! i'm not sure if I'm going to be worried or embarrassed! :-p

ahhh come on Katie..... Be brave and give it a shot!!!

Well, I agree with you on the rhody and the rose and the artichoke or cardoon in front. The three plants coming up together in front of the large shrub might be liatris. Don't really have an idea about the others.

Liatris sounds like a good guess. I have really been scratching my head on those!

Well I have some that are trying to come up right now, but the slugs here (and I grow them big) have been ahead of me.

I must say Redchic, I am amazed, but not surprised. What is the purple bush though? It is about 3 1/2 to 4 feet across and the same wide. katie59 you provided a little help. Katie, Sluggo, slug bait has been proven not to harm other animals or kids and they go away to die. It's the only kind I use. Will post the answers early this afternoon.
Vicki

wow Vicki, you're a night owl too! I would have to see a closer picture of the purple bush thing to maybe figure out what that is. Strangely enough it grows like my candytuft does, but i've only seen that in a white flower (i've heard rumors that purple might exist!). It also sort of looks like a purple Ice plant, delosperma. that should grow to be a big plant in zone 8. Hmmmm.... ok.... you've gotta give us some closer shots! i'm beginning to feel like a dog chasing my own tail! :-p

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Ok red,
Closer pics are coming, and if you are up to the challange, I happen to have a few in my backyard too. I will probably send them straight to your D mail. I don't want to take up room on here for something not a lot of people are interested in. When I show you a close up of the purple, I think you will know what it is immediately. It's hard to get closer pics since you can only post 1 per thread. Would you mind giving me your direct email and I can send you close ones of the purple and the several in my back-yard at one time. A couple of these in the back might stump you, but you are very good, so maybe not.
Vicki

You can definitely send them direct to my d-mail if you want to. I like a good game!! But, I actually think that more folks will want to give it a shot if they can see the plants better!! At least it seems like that's usually the case. Actually, if it doesn't get much interest for some reason, I'll see if I can get some folks from one of the other forums that I like to hang out on to check it out, I bet you'll get a lot more responses!!! You can post as many pics as you like in this thread, unfortunately it does have to be one at a time, but it is a really common thing to do! Just start posting away with pics when you reply to this one and take up as many replys as you want!!!

I think everyone gets a kick out of seeing them and guessing (even if they don't post their guesses!).

ok guys here they are, purple bush 1st. A couple of them are closer shots of yesterday's. I'll post this with purple one then the next 7 will just be pics. I'll put answers this evening, but I don't think you will need me to tell you most of them. It's so crappy out today, can't believe it's june 1. Might as well do little quiz.
Vicki

Closer pics from yesterday

a couple of these last 5 closer. Uh oh cheated a flower on it. lol

New ones still in front yard

back yard now

continued

next

only 3 more, I guess more than 7 huh

My very favorite, can't wait till blooming should be soon i hope

Last one, How did everyone do? I will even have to look up some, will be as specific as possible in this evenings answers. Thanks for playing!!
Vicki

oooooh. I'm going to have fun looking at these when I get off work!!!!

Hm, the last one is Polemonium Brise D'Anjou, before that, let's see, butterfly bush, Buddlieie Davidii,

The front yard Purple one looks like Verbena to me, it doesn't seem quite tall enough to be Erysimum Bowles Mauve, then two Mums, then, as we all suspected, a Dianthus, which is next to what looks to me like some variety of Shasta Daisy. Then, for the new ones in the front yard, there's a Winky Rose Columbine (or Aquilegia) next to a Garden Phlox.

The back yard has the Centaurea Montana like Til's
Next picture has an Astilbe and one that looks familiar but I'm not sure about.

The next picture has the edge of a Hydrangea and what looks like a Penstemon

Not sure what the next one is.

Then, I'm back to where I started....

My guess is the first is a verbena like a Tapien or Temari. When I first saw your first post I guessed to myself Bowles Mauve ersysimum but seeing the close up I now think some sort of perenniel verbena looking at the leaves and bloom.

The second photo looks like some sort of chrysanthemum.

The third photo with the little pink bloom is maybe a dianthus and the larger green plant maybe is perenniel aster.

The front yard photos look like a columbine and maybe a tall phlox.

Is the next one, the first backyard photo one of those perenniel lobelias that bloom red?

The next continued photo looks like an astilbe and that same lobelia.

The next photo is Liatris or gayfeather?

Your favorite is a butterfly bush or buddlei.

Your last is Jacob's Ladder or polemium, that new variegated variety, Brise d'Anjou.

Sorry so many posts but I looked at each enlargement individually and then made my guess.

Dang Susybell and Lenjo, You two pretty much summed it all up I think! I'm so glad someone finally named that verbena. I've seen the plant plenty of times before, but I'm not real familiar with it and I would've driven myself crazy with it until I thumbed through a reference book until I found it. So, I'm glad I don't need to do that now!!!

You guys are amazing, for the most part almost everyone was correct. Lenjo execellent, except in the continue picture that is an astilbe, (one I thought I killed last summer) but next to it is a Bee Balm.

1. Verbena Homestead
2 Mums
3 Aster and Dianthus
4 Columbine (Winky Mix) and Garden Phlox (David)
5 Lobelia Cardinalis
6 Bee Balm on the right, Astilbe on the left
7 Penstemon (Goat's Beard)
8 Liatris or Gayfeather
9 Butterfly Bush Purple Nanjo
10 Jacob's ladder

Thanks everyone and no wonder I come to you guys for my gardening questions.

it was a good day! Do you have another quiz? that was fun..... probably because I didn't do most of the work! :-p