The two tentitively identified plants at the church just shed a bunch of seed pods. The pods were still green and the seeds were white. Are these viable.

I'm thinking they are rose of sharon because the flowers are smaller than the hybiscus I have seen.

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Thanks for the information Lynne. I'm going to keep my eye on that bush. I think it would be fun to start some next year for the ladies that have homes in the area. They are a pretty bush. We have the white with the dark purple eye and the light purple ones.

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I'll try. I forgot to take my camera on tuesday. But I'll try to remember it on sunday. I want to get pictures of the plants so I can get some help identifying them.

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Oh Lynne, I love the magenta one, but I guess that's really no surprise! Unfortunately, I just don't have room for any more bushes in my yard and they get so big.

By the way, I wanted you to now I didn't bail out on you in the Coneflower thread. I was having a lot of trouble with my computer and couldn't get on here for the last several weeks. It's still not fixed yet and the modem I'm using is as slow as a snail.

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Those are beautiful Lynne!!!

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I probably need to trim the ones at the church. I think they are volunteers from next door. Either that or next door are volunteers from us lol.

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Oh geesh, Lynne, 6'X 4' that's bigger than me! I really don't have that kind of room to spare. Although I have been contemplating taking out a very large Forsythia bush that hardly blooms but it would be a chore to remove it since it's probably been there forever. Actually, if I ever do decide to take it out I would probably put in the Hydrangea Endless Summer. Boy, that is such an awesome plant and I love it! Three months of huge, beautiful pink (if you amend the soil to alkaline) blooms and it's hardy to zone 4. What more could you ask for?

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Actually, I've been doing just that for the past 11 or 12 years and it really hasn't helped much. When my mom first moved in here it was such a strange looking thing. It was about 6-7' tall with heavy, thick, bare canes all the way up to the top where there were some leaves. From a distance it almost looked like a bunch of palm trees. The man at the nursery told me to do the same thing you said and he also said to take about 1/4 off the remaining tops for several years until it was a managable size. Well, I now have a huge, rounded shrub that does get a few yellow flowers you can hardly notice and they do not last very long anyway. I think it's so old it has used up all it's blooming energy. I guess the main reason it's still here is because the birds love to get in there year-round.

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No, I've never tested the soil because I guess the flowers have never been a priority. My mom was just thrilled that I got the Forsythia to grow big and bushy so it provided some privacy for the patio and that's probably the way I feel about it now, too. It might be nice if it would bloom, but it's really not important to me now.

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I just collected seed pods from the bushes at the church. And your right it is a red center in the white one. and the other is a mid pink. Now since they are growing side by side it's anyones guess what colors the pods will produce right?

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