OK gardening freaks I need help! (identify this pic of my bush)

**sonofsam** · 02-12-2005, 04:05 PM

i thought you meant different kind of gardening..... i have no clue about normal outside plants sorry

**Pete** · 02-12-2005, 04:05 PM

I cant tell from the pic you provided.

**V_RocKs** · 02-12-2005, 04:05 PM

Going to post that pic?

**tungsten** · 02-12-2005, 04:06 PM

Originally posted by sonofsam

i thought you meant different kind of gardening..... i have no clue about normal outside plants sorry

same here, we're such perverts

**sonofsam** · 02-12-2005, 04:07 PM

Originally posted by tungsten

same here, we're such perverts

lol i didn't even think of that.. hahha... YOU are a pervert lol

i thought it had something to do with weed

**alexg** · 02-12-2005, 04:07 PM

Originally posted by tungsten

same here, we're such perverts

make it 3 of us

**RRRED** · 02-12-2005, 04:10 PM

That's it!! I'll trim down my you know what some more and then replace that plant with a huge marjuana plant!

I think my neighbors already think I'm a drug dealer anyway.

**fris** · 02-12-2005, 04:11 PM

Originally posted by RRRED

That's it!! I'll trim down my you know what some more and then replace that plant with a huge marjuana plant!

I think my neighbors already think I'm a drug dealer anyway.

oh damn i was hoping for a nice little landing strip

**RRRED** · 02-12-2005, 06:21 PM

Originally posted by fris

oh damn i was hoping for a nice little landing strip

I have that, not that anyone's landed there in a long long time! haha

Well anyway you guys are totally useless.. I guess I'll butcher that thing down tomorrow and hope for the best

**S P A N N O W** · 02-12-2005, 06:23 PM

Originally posted by RRRED

.. I guess I'll butcher that thing down tomorrow

Murderer!

**spunkmaster** · 02-12-2005, 06:23 PM

You can cut that down to almost to the ground and it will look about the size it doesn now in a year.

**S P A N N O W** · 02-12-2005, 06:24 PM

Awww fuck it - cut the bitch down

**sonofsam** · 02-12-2005, 06:24 PM

dress up as a vietnamese rice farmer and machete it

**S P A N N O W** · 02-12-2005, 06:26 PM

Originally posted by sonofsam

dress up as a vietnamese rice farmer and machete it

**RRRED** · 02-12-2005, 07:38 PM

Originally posted by sonofsam

dress up as a vietnamese rice farmer and machete it

OMG that IS the most hilarious thing I've read all day hahaha nice

**uvort** · 02-12-2005, 07:59 PM

Originally posted by sonofsam

dress up as a vietnamese rice farmer and machete it

Well said, you have to be prepared before going into battle

**Tala** · 02-12-2005, 08:03 PM

My grandmother had several of those. It's a form of forsythia, and will grow back just fine.

**Easton** · 02-12-2005, 08:03 PM

it kinda looks like a rose bush, no?

**DESIREbyDESIGN** · 02-12-2005, 08:07 PM

I have no idea what sort of plant it is but just hack into it now if you really want to get rid of it.

Killing a plant on purpose doesn't require you to consider the season or growing conditions.

**The Bootyologist** · 02-12-2005, 08:21 PM

Originally posted by Tala

My grandmother had several of those. It's a form of forsythia, and will grow back just fine.

forsythia is yellow

**Tala** · 02-12-2005, 08:23 PM

Originally posted by The Bootyologist

forsythia is yellow

Note my use of the words "form of" in front of "forsythia."

Believe Me, I know that a traditional forsythia is yellow. Mema had plenty of those as well, and that's where she got the switches used to punish My cousins and Me. ACK.

**Illicit** · 02-12-2005, 08:24 PM

Oh and I thought this thread was going to be good

**The Bootyologist** · 02-12-2005, 08:24 PM

Originally posted by Tala

Note my use of the words "form of" in front of "forsythia."

Believe Me, I know that a traditional forsythia is yellow. Mema had plenty of those as well, and that's where she got the switches used to punish My cousins and Me. ACK.

there is no pink forsythia

**sonofsam** · 02-12-2005, 08:24 PM

thanks folks... i'll be here all week... but for now my times up

da dum dum deeeshhhhh

**The Bootyologist** · 02-12-2005, 08:25 PM

the leaf looks like honesysuckle or mock orange, but that bloom looks like woodland phlox from what i can see

**The Bootyologist** · 02-12-2005, 08:26 PM

pink snowball tree is another guess . i cant tell well enough to see

**Tala** · 02-12-2005, 08:28 PM

Originally posted by The Bootyologist

there is no pink forsythia

You say that as though you've done extensive research.

While I admit I could well be wrong, I'm going off of what I was told as a kid wandering through Mema's plants. It may be that she was wrong as well.

Perhaps tea roses? Whatever it may be, if it's hardy enough to be blooming in February, it may well not be anything to worry about - you could most likely cut it and it'd grow right back.

**Tala** · 02-12-2005, 08:32 PM

Originally posted by The Bootyologist

there is no pink forsythia

And yes, there is.

Abeliophyllum distichum roseum

Google. Love it.

But I think you're right in that it doesn't match. Looks more like a rose to me....I'll have a peek around to see what I find that matches.

**weirdharold** · 02-12-2005, 08:54 PM

Originally posted by The Bootyologist

there is no pink forsythia

Then what the hell is this?

**RRRED** · 02-12-2005, 09:02 PM

Haha I left for a while and I find it funny you guys are arguing over my bush

Basically I just need to know if I can hack at it or do I need to wait for spring? summer? (sorry I'm a retard when it comes to these things)

And If I hack it, there's points in the stem that are.. oh god I don't know the word for it... bulbus?? Do you cut right above these points or right below? I probably saw something about this years ago somewhere.. All I know is that it's important, no?

I'm renting right now or I'd dig it up no problemo

http://rrredspot.adult.com/junk/myhouse.jpg

Its the first bush on the right of my garage... Totally out of control.

**Pete-KT** · 02-12-2005, 09:05 PM

I was thinking it was gonna be a girls bush but oh well, sorry cant help

**dirtydesignz** · 02-12-2005, 09:14 PM

Originally posted by RRRED

Do you cut right above these points or right below?

RRRed, you'd cut right above the bulbus thingamajigs

**weirdharold** · 02-12-2005, 09:14 PM

Red take a look at this http://www.djroger.com/pink_forsythia.htm cause the pic doesn't really give us a good view of it.. but see if this is the same thing.

**SleazeQueen** · 02-12-2005, 11:47 PM

I haven't got a clue what it is, but I have some things that look similar and I hack them back every year. Hack them now and you'll miss the bloom though, so you might want to wait.

If you want to know for sure what it is and how to take care of it, cut one of the branches (probably good to get a bloom if you can) and take it to your local nursery. I'd suggest you avoid places like the garden center at Home Depot as most of the help there is clueless.

A good nursery shouldn't be too far away and they will be able to identify the plant for you and they should have a big huge book of plants that will tell you about care and pruning and feeding, etc.

**AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE** · 02-12-2005, 11:50 PM

I wanna say Poison Oak or Ivy, not sure.

**brand0n** · 02-13-2005, 12:26 AM

she said bush

**Dagwolf** · 02-13-2005, 02:24 AM

Originally posted by dirtydesignz

RRRed, you'd cut right above the bulbus thingamajigs

They're called nodes... You cut right above a node where a leaf (or another branch) grows out of the branch you're cutting. Above as in, you leave the node, stem and leaf ON.

OK gardening freaks I need help! (identify this pic of my bush)

OK gardening freaks I need help! (identify this pic of my bush)

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