Amateur gardening hour

[kate_nepveu]

It was a nice cool cloudy day when I got home from work, and I actually had some energy for a change, so I went and attacked that triffid in the backyard.

(Actual gardeners probably don't want to look at these pictures.)

Comments

[doire]

Oh, if Nº 3 were growing in my garden (note the caution) it would be a rose. 7-fold leaflets, so probably a cultivated variety.

I have no idea about Nº 2.

[kate_nepveu]

Heh. I'm not even sure that thing ever puts out flowers, let alone nice ones. It turns reddish in the fall, and it's evil; that's all I got!

(Edit: Duh. I was thinking #2, the triffid in place, and #3, the thorns on the table, are the same thing; you're thinking they're not? Not sure, I'm just glad they're gone from that area.)

[missysedai]

#2 (triffid in place) looks like Burning Bush to me.

We took ours out of the front bed and replaced them with Shasta Daisies and a cute fountain. The daisies don't bite.

#3 is a climbing rose. They do stop blooming if they've been ill nourished or improperly maintained. Roses are bitchy things. My climbers out front got blight in last year's funky weather, so I hacked them all the way to the ground. I think that saved them. They're creeping back up the pillars again!

[kate_nepveu]

Huh. Well, it *was* climbing; I've never seen it bloom, but the garden was in a bit of a state of neglect when we moved in.