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This is one of the plants I rescued from a garden that is doomed to be 'plowed under' . . .



(and yes - I got permission to dig the plants outta' there)

Free plants, gotta love it. Is there much there that you can have Carly?

A few daisies, blue bells, a couple of nice hostas . . .

They've already driven away the first big bin - there's another one there now, and the plants have gone.

I'm glad we rescued 'em . . . it's been a week - nothing's died. There's one big one that might do well by my clippers - doesn't wanna' stand up on its own.

I'll show some more in the next post.

You can't tell much by these pictures, I guess - this was a tall plant with big leaves and a spray of tiny white flowers at the top - it's the oddest thing I've seen.

Right now, it's a grand mess - since Jeff put it in last Friday the wind and rain has battered it.

Maybe somebody here will recognize it.

maybe once the leaves perk back up, it will be more recognizable?

Maybe . . . dunno'.

you don't dunnosio?

carly, the leaves remind me of a banana, could it have been an ornamental banana?

I doubt that very much - in a northern climate like this? In June?

I dunnosio . . .

On that one I thought might be a hibiscus?

It's got a yellow, trumpet shaped flower today.

That tall messy thing? I clipped it down to nothing. If it wants to come back up again, it will.

I hate to see things get plowed under. They do that alot here and I work my butt off dugging up when I find a place they are planning on plowing under

Here's what the flower looks like - yellow!



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could it be evening primrose?

Those leaves are not right for an evening primrose. Reminds me more of a hibiscus.

Tina is right that it's not an evening primrose unless the yellow plant is - you have 2 plants there - the yellow is not blooming from the taller stalks - they are hydrangea stalks.

I'm not sure what the yellow flower is, but it is definitely a separate plant.