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two nursery folks and one landscape contractor were stumped. So far, exberry azalea and bayberry have been suggested.plant popped up in my garden bed a couple of years ago and I just left it alone.

This year it seems to be thriving. It has thick dark green leaves during the summer. I have never noticed any berries.

When I googled it, it came close to the exberry azalea- I have never heard the term before.

That is a shrubbery!

Nii !!!!

ice said:

That is a shrubbery!

Nii !!!!

LOL !

consensus is moving toward bayberry - which would be fine for me.

I'm told to wait a couple of weeks as changes occur -- buds, etc

First time I have had an amaryllis flower a second time! This plant had 9 beautiful white flowers at Christmas. As usual, after blooming, I placed it in a dark place, very little water. About  2 weeks ago, I put it out in the garden, not in direct sunshine, and sheltered to restore itself for its annual show. Today, I noticed this big bud! Anyone else experience this second act?

Awesome, you are the only one I've known to get a rebloom!

can anyone confirm what this is I planted last year? I thinks it's coneflower, but I forgot? 

I don't know know what it is, but it's not Coneflower.

it looks like a self-seeded weed - well, for over here, anyway. Part of what gives rise to that opinion is how it's planted too close to that other (bulb?) with the spreading leaves... doesn't look right for seeded plants, and it's too fine for bulbs. Sorry. So many weeds look pretty in flower, don't they?

There's 3 of them, very symmetrical. I guess I'll wait and see what happens? Thx!

The very small plant - seedling? - with four or five slightly wider leaves, just below the center of the plant I think you're asking about in the 2nd picture, could be a coneflower:  bright to dark green, with length-wise grooves/veins....  So could the plant way in the upper right corner of that picture.

The "weed," if that's what it is, is pretty though, isn't it?  No clue what it is.

A weed is just something you did not plant. If you like it, keep it, enjoy it.  You can even move it if you would rather see it somewhere else in your garden.  

dano, Take a look at pennycress.

That is what it looks like,  however I don't recall planting it. I do remember the echinacea or coneflower I planted . It must just be a weed? 

bigben_again said:

dano, Take a look at pennycress.

mtierney said:

First time I have had an amaryllis flower a second time! This plant had 9 beautiful white flowers at Christmas. As usual, after blooming, I placed it in a dark place, very little water. About  2 weeks ago, I put it out in the garden, not in direct sunshine, and sheltered to restore itself for its annual show. Today, I noticed this big bud! Anyone else experience this second act?

Still going -- and it looks the formerly white flowers might be red this time around.

Not echinacea - the plant in front (blurry) is pnny cress of pepperweed - not exactly sure - but a weed. The plant behind it is an allium - strap leaves and purple flower - looks like a huge chive.  

dano said:

can anyone confirm what this is I planted last year? I thinks it's coneflower, but I forgot? 

May 6 - discovery of a bulb on last Christmas plant

May 16 - rapid growth which had me thinking that the bud might not bloom

May 29 -- the formerly white flower booms a lovely shade of red!

joan_crystal said:

A weed is just something you did not plant. If you like it, keep it, enjoy it.  You can even move it if you would rather see it somewhere else in your garden.  

Not really. Something you didn't plant could be an invasive species.

"the cup half full vs the cup half empty" folks!  

mtierney said:

mtierney said:

First time I have had an amaryllis flower a second time! This plant had 9 beautiful white flowers at Christmas. As usual, after blooming, I placed it in a dark place, very little water. About  2 weeks ago, I put it out in the garden, not in direct sunshine, and sheltered to restore itself for its annual show. Today, I noticed this big bud! Anyone else experience this second act?

Still going -- and it looks the formerly white flowers might be red this time around.

This thought is really about the tall slender house plant trunk in the background.  Cut that to about 8 inches tall and in a few weeks you'll have a newly rejuvenated plant of "human" scale.

Best Regards,

Ron Carter

mtierney said:

mtierney said:

First time I have had an amaryllis flower a second time! This plant had 9 beautiful white flowers at Christmas. As usual, after blooming, I placed it in a dark place, very little water. About  2 weeks ago, I put it out in the garden, not in direct sunshine, and sheltered to restore itself for its annual show. Today, I noticed this big bud! Anyone else experience this second act?

Still going -- and it looks the formerly white flowers might be red this time around.

This thought is really about the tall slender house plant trunk in the background.  Cut that to about 8 inches tall and in a few weeks you'll have a newly rejuvenated plant of "human" scale.

Unless it's a cactus, then I'm not giving any advice!

Best Regards,

Ron Carter

mysterious plant still a mystery

Here, that's an 'exotic' (meaning European) hedge type shrub, that's actually a self-seeding pernicious weed!!  A kind of English Box tree, perhaps? I think some of the leaves turn red-tipped in autumn, as they fall off the plant...? (Or are they red as they're growing in?) 

no red, and the leaves turn hard and dark green, similar to holly, in the fall. Latest suggestion is bayberry.

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mtierney said:

definitive determination has been made!  

Leaving no stone unturned, I received an email yesterday from a wholesale plant source that it is southern wax myrtle which grows from seed -- which explains how it showed up in my garden.