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

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

This bush in front of my house is starting to block my walkway. I'm scared to just cut it wherever cuz I know you have to do it in a certain spot or whatever.

Does anyone know what in the hell it even is? And where you cut it? It's getting a little pink fluff of blossoms just this month so will I ruin it if I cut it all up now? Should I wait? :helpme

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

I cant tell from the pic you provided.

Going to post that pic?

same here, we're such perverts :1orglaugh

lol i didn't even think of that.. hahha... YOU are a pervert lol
:1orglaugh

i thought it had something to do with weed :)

make it 3 of us

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 :)

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 :upsidedow

Murderer! :mad:

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

Awww fuck it - cut the bitch down :1orglaugh

dress up as a vietnamese rice farmer and machete it

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

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

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

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

it kinda looks like a rose bush, no?

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.

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.
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Oh and I thought this thread was going to be good :(

there is no pink forsythia

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

da dum dum deeeshhhhh

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

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

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

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.

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. :)

Then what the hell is this?

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.

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

RRRed, you'd cut right above the bulbus thingamajigs:)

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.

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.

I wanna say Poison Oak or Ivy, not sure.

she said bush

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. :thumbsup