Unidentified plant from Maplewood Garden Club sale

Anyone know what this is? It was in the club members' section, but had no identifier, and the few people I asked there didn't know. I bought it as a mystery, but now I don't know where to plant it.


Oh no.  It will take over the world and eat everyone. 


That looks like what my mum used to call an 'aluminium plant'. I think it's a kind of confinable soft creeper or small tree ( been too many years since I saw one.)  will look it up for you!


Nope. I got the plant all wrong! But I do know it, and it has a pretty shape and habit.


Thanks, joanne. I need to know what it needs in the way of sun and how big it gets.

Anyone else know what it is?


jasper, you can e-mail a photo to your Master gardeners hotline or call the county extension office.


Essex
973-228-2210
Monday - Friday
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
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973-228-2210
Monday - Friday
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.


Could it be a hydrangea?  I did a search on serrated pinnate leaves and found this:  http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/2054510/hydrangea-paniculata-tardiva-question


Break off a small part of one of the leaves and roll it between your fingers and sniff. If you are lucky and it's an herb, the scent might give some clues.


Thanks, everyone. I'm fairly certain it's not the hydrangea. The leaves are slightly fuzzy. I'm going to try the master gardener email and I'll report back. For now, I put it in a reasonably sunny spot and we'll see how it goes.

Go to the AppStore and get LikeThatGarden.  You can take another picture of it and the app will tell you what it is.


ETA:  Let us know what it was!


Lunaria annua "Money plant"? 


Sorry: spent the day at work, and am brain dead now. Will check around here tomorrow and get back to you. I know I know it...


There is a plant tag in the picture. What does it say?



annesimms said:

There is a plant tag in the picture. What does it say?


$3 


I might be totally off but it looks like a baby coneflower or black eyed susan to me. 


Looks like sunflower to me... eta: dg64 may be on to something...


jasper said:

annesimms said:

There is a plant tag in the picture. What does it say?


$3 

 LOL!



dg64 said:

I might be totally off but it looks like a baby coneflower or black eyed susan to me. 

My in-house expert says to bet money -- $3 should be perfect -- that it's a coneflower, which she says needs sun but will do OK with part sun. (The leaves are wider than our black-eyed susans and the ribs don't look right, she says, adding that a sunflower would have opposite leaves, not alternate leaves.) 


Does anyone know what this is?  


Here is a close up of flowers just beginning to bloom


Might be a viburnum.  The flowers look especially viburnum-like.  Learned about that plant here on MOL.  There's a row of them at Memorial Park.  


New picture makes my earlier post clearly wrong. So deleted.


Not a coneflower. Maybe a black eyed susan. 


Hmm. I bought a Rudbeckia that had a different leaf and overall plant structure, but perhaps they're just different varieties. I guess we'll find out in a few more weeks once they grow bigger and hopefully start to flower. At least I didn't plant them right next to each other.

Anyway, thanks for all the input, my trusty gardening experts. I'll definitely report back.

By the way, the Essex County master gardener email address is defunct, so I sent them a Facebook message and will let you all know if I get a response.


mod, the viburnum flowers should be fragrant. Are they? We just bought a couple of viburnum shrubs, and while I think they may be done flowering for this season, the leaves are sort of similar to yours.



joy said:

Not a coneflower. Maybe a black eyed susan. 

Let's make that a $2 bet then. 


DaveSchmidt said:


joy said:

Not a coneflower. Maybe a black eyed susan. 

Let's make that a $2 bet then. 

 I already bet $3 on an unknown plant, so no more bets for me. : - )



mod said:

Here is a close up of flowers just beginning to bloom

 I think this is a deutzia. Look at the flower buds of Deutzia Chardonnay Pearls.


I say give it a good spot with plenty of sunshine, keep it from drying out, and see what emerges. Photos of its progress, Please?


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