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twomoons
Concrete, WA
(Zone 7b)
May 29, 2007
11:19 AM Post #3548676
| This is also a very large shrub growing next to my running bamboo. The branches or stems are a red color, it looses it's foilage in winter and grows like a weed!!! Clusters of very small white flowers all over it. 
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Heavinscent
South West, LA
(Zone 9a)
May 29, 2007
05:35 PM Post #3549962
| Are the flowers fragrant? Its had to tell from the picture but if I had to guess I would say it looks like some kind of Clerodendron. |
twomoons
Concrete, WA
(Zone 7b)
May 31, 2007
11:15 AM Post #3557274
| I went to plant files and tried to look up Clerodendron, but got no results. Any other possible names? |
wildgardengirl
Gregory, MI
May 31, 2007
01:27 PM Post #3557811
| Are the flowers followed by creamy white berries? How red are the stems? Do they stand out really, really red in winter?
If so, could be red-twig dogwood (Cornus sericea). |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
May 31, 2007
02:07 PM Post #3557930
| The correct spelling is Clerodendrum, try that and see if you have better luck. The only Clerodendrum that I can think of that would be hardy in zone 7 is Clerodendrum trichotomum
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/772/index.html |
twomoons
Concrete, WA
(Zone 7b)
May 31, 2007
05:20 PM Post #3558511
| I concur with the Red Twig Dogwood!!! Pics are exactly the same, dark red stems in winter, and is INVASIVE!!
Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
wildgardengirl
Gregory, MI
June 01, 2007
01:01 PM Post #3561899
| Funny how things that are desireable landscape plants in some areas are nasty invasives in others. Like your red-twig dogwood - its on my list of things to get due to the winter interest of its red, red twigs. :) |
gessiegail
Taft, TX
(Zone 9a)
June 01, 2007
08:31 PM Post #3563590
| I know that people sometimes scream when I post a picture of something I am 'dying for'...it is invasive...well, it is not to me... |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
June 01, 2007
09:04 PM Post #3563723
| Unfortunately invasiveness is not a matter of personal opinion--if something's invasive in your area it's invasive. So I hope when you say that something's not invasive to you, you mean that in your climate it's not invasive. But if it's invasive in your area and you're choosing to ignore that and plant it anyway, well that's how a lot of the invasive plants across the country (and probably the world) became and continue to be such problems, so I hope you will reconsider. |
gessiegail
Taft, TX
(Zone 9a)
June 01, 2007
10:29 PM Post #3564180
| No, I meant it is not a problem here even though people in other states read that it is invasive here...if it is ...I have never even seen one here...that is what i am talking about, ecrane... |
ecrane3
Dublin, CA
(Zone 9a)
June 02, 2007
12:42 AM Post #3564584
| Glad to hear that! Didn't mean to jump on you, but I see a lot of people who are perfectly happy to plant things that are invasive in their area and I wanted to make sure that's not what you were saying. |
wildgardengirl
Gregory, MI
June 04, 2007
01:33 PM Post #3573860
| I know what you mean, ecrane - I do my best to prevent people I know for purchasing or otherwise acquiring invasives for their landscape. Here we have issues with the Russian Olive - used to be planted as a windbreak by the farmers until they discovered how very easily it spreads and takes over any unused land. Smells heavenly in May when the flowers bloom (which aren't worth looking at, just smelling) but suckers and seeds prolifically. Some of my neighbors have them planted in their yards, and I'm still trying to convince my Aunt she doesn't want one, no matter how great it smells!! grrrr!
I try to learn what plants are invasive in my general region and refuse to plant them. |
