Plants... not blooming (yet)

[watermelonpunch]

All Northeastern Pennsylvania
Pretty sure they're all been taken in the past week.

Hoping maybe people will recognize these by the leaves.
If you think it might be something but want a closer picture, let me know & I'll see if I can get a better close-up.
Thanks!

# 706



# 704



# 702



# 700



# 696

The dark green round sprout. It looks like the edges are serrated.



There's a climbing rose that grows within about 1ft of this sprout. Could it be that?
I don't see the climbing rose that I saw last year, or I would compare the leaves. :/
(And yes, I believe that's a young garlic mustard next to it.)

# 678

The plant in the forefront.



There are a couple of other things there in the picture.

# 675




# 669 (670, 671)







# 566




# 519





And next up will be my tree & bush list. LOL
Trying to divide them up by category at least. ^^

[MarcP]

# 704 could be assorted things but my first guess is ragweed
# 700 wild guess, goldenrod

[rainbowgardener]

Oh man.... I am so not good at this. I keep going I know I know that one .... but I have to go and don't have time to think about it more.

The bottom one might be ironweed

#675 is that dock we have been talking about in a different thread.

[MarcP]

Rainbow, you ARE good at this! You and about four or five others have been extremely helpful to me and have made this site enormous fun. I shouldn't even be trying to guess because I'm always wrong but I can't stop myself.
Marc

[watermelonpunch]

rainbow Yeah I have to say you are good at this... even if your immediate memory is not always cooperating.
I think it's good to have things ruled out too. Like process of elimination.

And sometimes I find that if I can find something that looks like it... then I can find out what looks like that, and then find it that way.

And marcp I think you're better than you think too.

[applestar]

Let's see how MY fallible memory handles this....

702 looks familiar... Nightshade I think -- the purple flowered black berry kind.

669 might be the white flowered red berry kind.

566 is that a zinnia or calendula?

519 looks like evening primrose

678 can't remember what it is but I pulled some out of my own garden

...sleepy now... Not bothering to review for one last check.

[!potatoes!]

706 - probably goldenrod
704 - ragweed
702, 669 (foreground), 670, 671 - nightshades (various?)
519 - evening primrose
675 - doesn't quite looks like dock...comfrey? digitalis? will be good to see it flowering.

[rainbowgardener]

Good job... I think you are right about the comfrey.

And yes all of this will get much easier when they bloom.

But it is fun to challenge us in the meantime

[watermelonpunch]

566 is that a zinnia or calendula?

566



More info...

It does kinda look a little zinnia-ish doesn't it!! I thought so myself!

But it can't be.
It's a perennial that my MIL gave me last year (she doesn't remember what it is).

When she gave it to me it was one stalk, and maybe it had already flowered. She may have given it to me in July or later.
The stalk remained and I left it dried because it was planted in a crazy area. I left the stalk even after it started growing again, as I was working in that area.
Only this year, it's got many stems and is much bigger & wider.

It was well on its way to growing through 2 light frosts & all the temperature extremes of the past 2 months. It hasn't been much bothered by that either.
It gets midday sun for maybe 3 hours direct, and maybe 2-4 hours around that in dappled sunlight.

[watermelonpunch]

RE Comfrey

Yes yes, I believe it is that... now looking at pictures of it in a search.

I confused it with dock... before I knew what it was. This was last year. And now it's coming back to me...
What I mean is that I confused it with that AWFUL hideous plant I now know is dock.
The one that grows by the juniper kind of bush at the back of the house at a weedy shady end of the flowerbed along the house... the end where nothing much grows well - nothing besides that alien looking dock plant ... which might have something to do with the fact the dryer vent blows billowing steam vapors out there all winter. LOL I'm assuming that fabric softener steam treatments are not a viable form of overwinter soil amendment. ha ha ha

Anyway, this comfrey thing - I think one did eventually fill out, and looked better... It looked kind of nice... until something ate all sorts of holes in all the leaves.

[!potatoes!]

when the comfrey gets bug-bit, as long as you've got at least another month of growing season, cut it to the ground, chop, and use for nutritive green mulch on things that need it. it'll come back. comfrey is expected to work in my garden, no sittin' around trying to look pretty.

[pinksand]

566 is that a zinnia or calendula?

566



More info...

It does kinda look a little zinnia-ish doesn't it!! I thought so myself!

But it can't be.
It's a perennial that my MIL gave me last year (she doesn't remember what it is).

When she gave it to me it was one stalk, and maybe it had already flowered. She may have given it to me in July or later.
The stalk remained and I left it dried because it was planted in a crazy area. I left the stalk even after it started growing again, as I was working in that area.
Only this year, it's got many stems and is much bigger & wider.

It was well on its way to growing through 2 light frosts & all the temperature extremes of the past 2 months. It hasn't been much bothered by that either.
It gets midday sun for maybe 3 hours direct, and maybe 2-4 hours around that in dappled sunlight.

This looks a lot like a plant I had ID'd recently viewtopic.php?f=52&t=52359 Does Saponaria sound about right?

[MarcP]

I'll be interested in seeing what develops with #519. Show us again when it flowers, ok?

[Mr_bobo_]

Does Saponaria sound about right?

That's correct !

#702 = Solanum nigrum

#700 = Solidago Canadensis

#675 = Rumex acetosa