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[Joanna]

Hello All,

Since I had so much success with my first request to identify some plants, I am asking for your help again with the following plants, thank you!!

#1[img]https://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z453/JoannaMB2011/IMG_1049.jpg[/img]

#1a[img]https://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z453/JoannaMB2011/IMG_1050.jpg[/img]

#2[img]https://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z453/JoannaMB2011/IMG_1048.jpg[/img]

#3[img]https://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z453/JoannaMB2011/IMG_1047.jpg[/img]

#4[img]https://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z453/JoannaMB2011/IMG_1046.jpg[/img]

#5[img]https://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z453/JoannaMB2011/IMG_1045.jpg[/img]

#6[img]https://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z453/JoannaMB2011/IMG_1043.jpg[/img]

#7[img]https://i1190.photobucket.com/albums/z453/JoannaMB2011/IMG_1038.jpg[/img]


Thank you in advance for your help!!

Joanna[/img]

[rainbowgardener]

Not sure of all of these, but I'm thinking the first two pictures are cleome/ spider flower. If so, it is a tender perennial, native to the tropics, that the rest of us grow as an annual


#2 the low moundy plant with the kind of star shaped leaves is maybe hardy geranium, with a couple weeds growing out of it.

3 is iris, cold hardy perennial

4 looks like banana tree, but that seems a little odd in canada, but something tropical like that. In your climate, it would likely need to be dug up and brought in for the winter.

6 is snapdragon, an annual.

7 is sedum, cold hardy perennial

[Desirai]

#1 and #1a are Cleome! I have many of these.

#6 is a snapdragon. I have these too, they're lovely.

#4 could possibly be a canna.

#7 ah.. we call them Stonecrops here.

edit: #3 is popular around here but I don't know what they are. They are prickly and sharp, I don't like them.

[lily51]

#1 Cleome or some call it spider plant. Annuals, but will reseen themselves
#2 hardy geranium ?
#4 Canna....pull these at the end of the season, store the bulbs and replant next spring.
#5 snapdragons, another annual
#7 Sedum a perennial in Ohio, don't know about where you live.

[lorax]

I'll offer you Canna 'Achira' as a cultivar designation for #4 (I can tell you with almost 100% certainty that that's what you've got). You're very lucky; that's the Canna whose leaves are used in Latin American cooking, and it's difficult to find them in Canada.

Your Cleome is C. hassleriana.

RBG - are you sure #3 is an Iris? The leaf arrangement makes me think Crinium or one of the other Amaryllids - Iris in my experience always produce clear fans of leaves, and this one seems to be producing a rosette instead.

#5 looks like something Azalea to me, and #6 are snapdragons.

[Joanna]

Thank you to all who responded. None of these plants are annuals. The lady that had the house before me passed away in December. Her daughter came to maintain the grass, but never did any planting.

[mtmickey]

Snapdragons are annuals, however they prolifically spread their seeds and grow the next year. This weekend I saw some lovely snapdragon beds with a multitude of colors. Inspired me to try that at home.

[gottagrow]

Hi all,
I think #3 is possibly a Yucca plant. #5 is called Fever Few and I believe are considered to be an heirloom plant. I have 2 of them in my perennial bed. The are among the first to bloom for me in the spring. They have very pretty yellow cluster flower heads. The further into summer you get, the whole plant generally dies off and turns brittle. Many times I thought I'd lost mine, but next spring they're back (: I'm in zone 5. Keep on growing!

[rainbowgardener]

Yes, agree, #3 is yucca. Sorry, getting ready for work in the AM, didn't look closely enough. Stonecrop is another name for sedum.

[gottagrow]

An I apologize, I had too many things going on at once! What I said looked like FeverFew is actually Euphorbia. The same characteristics apply as far as early Spring blooms and the dying off part. Enjoy the day!

[quickcutters]

Your first and second ones are the picture I have in my avatar. I was pretty sure it was a spider plant. They are really pretty.