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Offline Dianna

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Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« on: May 06, 2010, 02:39:05 PM »
This is another shrub plant "cutting" that Jim brought home yesterday, in the hopes that it can be identified. The shrubs can be as much as 10 feet tall. They are very pretty in bloom, but we don't want them taking over...:)



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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2010, 04:01:31 PM »
It looks like some kind of Lilac to me Dianna.

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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #2 on: May 06, 2010, 04:16:15 PM »
leaves are right.  I thought the same thing.

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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #3 on: May 06, 2010, 04:28:03 PM »
If you don't want them everywhere and they are threatening to grow everywhere, then they are a weed.
The definition of a weed is any plant that you do not want growing where it is and you don't want to transplant to a new place. So if these are invading where you do not want them then eradication works. Other definitions of weeds are super invasive, non-native plants that alter natural ecosystems. We have imported so many of those.
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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #4 on: May 06, 2010, 04:58:38 PM »
Thanks, Annette. I will google lilac and see if I can find it... :grinnnn:

Tammy, that monster is a huge bush/shrub...:)

Tina, these bushes are strewn all up and down the backroads to our house. I haven't noticed any of these planted in anyone's yard. Of course, that may change if they don't keep up with mowing... :giggle:
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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #5 on: May 06, 2010, 08:01:53 PM »
they are all over here too dianna, and i was wondering what they were.  but they aren't lining the back roads, they are all up and down the easement  between the highway and the rail road tracks.
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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #6 on: May 07, 2010, 07:10:24 AM »
That was my guess, was a lilac, arent there a type of french lilac, and i thought they were a smaller shrub?

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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #7 on: May 07, 2010, 08:47:07 AM »
I looked up mock orange and found out that there are 60 varieties.  I know it grows wild here in SC.  That is what I think it is.

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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2010, 07:21:22 AM »
Good suggestion Sylvia.....i totally forgot about mock orange, we have that here too.

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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2010, 09:06:13 AM »
The flower clusters are nothing like the lilacs we have here in the NE. But there may be southern varieties I dont know of. Never saw a mock orange to know.



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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2010, 12:32:51 PM »
Hmmmm, upon looking at pics of mock orange, i dont think so now?

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Re: Weed Or Wanted Shrub?
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2010, 08:11:46 PM »
If it's not a Lilac, my next guess would be Deutzia Dianna.
But I really think it is a Dwarf Lilac.

 

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