What is this plant called?

[dch...@hotmail.com]

I saw this shrub in the neighborhood. Anyone knows the name and can I
buy it at hone depot?
Here is a picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/54230006@N07/8708670467/

Thanks

[Stormin Mormon]

It would make a lot of sense to either contact your cooperative extension, or bring the digicam to HD with you.

Regrettably, I don't recognize the plant.
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[tra...@optonline.net]

From the pic, it's hard to tell the size. And no info is given
as to the geographical location. But it looks like a small
azalea to me. If so, HD and just about any nursery will
have them.

[The Daring Dufas]

I know, I know, "Green bush with pretty red flowers"! I was curious so I
found some sites with a lot of pictures and I had no idea that there
were so many different varieties of landscape shrubs. I did a search
for "Flowering Shrubs Identification, Pictures" and there are a lot of
sites on the subject. ^_^

http://tinyurl.com/d8x8tod

http://typesofshrubs.net/

http://tinyurl.com/cer6hzy

http://www.bhg.com/gardening/plant-dictionary/

TDD

[gen...@internet.com]

There is a website that has an excellent listing of nearly every plant
that exists as well a full colored photos and descriptions, locations
etc. I dont recall the URL, but just start to search for something like
"plant identification".

[Ed Pawlowski]

On Sat, 4 May 2013 23:42:29 -0700 (PDT), "dch...@hotmail.com"
<dch...@hotmail.com> wrote:

Looks like an azalea to me. They are blooming here right now.

Last place I'd buy plants is Home Depot. You'll get better locally
grown at a nursery.

[Frank]

Post in rec.gardens. I'm sure someone there will know.

[John G]

dch...@hotmail.com formulated the question :

Looks like Bougainvillea to me. comes in a variety of purple redish
colours.

http://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Starr_030418-0060_Bougainvillea_spectabilis.jpg

--
John G

[tra...@optonline.net]

On May 5, 8:08 am, John G <greent...@ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> dcho...@hotmail.com formulated the question :

> http://to.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Starr_030418-0060_Bougainvillea_spe...
>
> --
> John G

Other than the color of the flower, I don't see anything in
your pic that is similar to the plant pic given. The leaves are
radically different, the stamen in the given plant is single,
the Bougainvillea has a triple stamen that also looks different, etc
Where the plant is would sure help rule out a lot of plants too.

[Norminn]

On 5/5/2013 2:42 AM, dch...@hotmail.com wrote:

Sure looks like a climbing rose...are the leaves kind of jagged? You
can buy climbing roses anywhere, but that includes hundreds of varieties
and colors. I would knock on the door and ask the owner about it,
unless you just want a "red rose". It sure ain't bouganvillea....it is
early for roses to bloom in midwest....

[George]

Some might like to spend more to get lower quality.

Just stopped at the local nursery yesterday. As an example HD has crappy
looking tomato plants for $3.50/each. Her single tomato plants are grown
right on site and look really healthy and are $1/each. The four packs
are $3. She has at least 30 varieties on hand including many heirloom
varieties.

[Ralph Mowery]

"George" <geo...@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
news:km5n9t$9ed$1...@dont-email.me...

>
>> Last place I'd buy plants is Home Depot. You'll get better locally
>> grown at a nursery.
>>
>
> Some might like to spend more to get lower quality.
>
> Just stopped at the local nursery yesterday. As an example HD has crappy
> looking tomato plants for $3.50/each. Her single tomato plants are grown
> right on site and look really healthy and are $1/each. The four packs are
> $3. She has at least 30 varieties on hand including many heirloom
> varieties.

I just don't see how HD and Lowes can sell the tomatoes for $ 3 or so each.
Several other places around here sell tomatoes in groups of 3 to 4 plants
for around that price. As you said, they usually look beter also.

[tra...@optonline.net]

On May 5, 9:52 am, "Ralph Mowery" <rmowery28...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> "George" <geo...@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
>
> news:km5n9t$9ed$1...@dont-email.me...
>
>
>
> >> Last place I'd buy plants is Home Depot.  You'll get better locally
> >> grown at a nursery.
>
> > Some might like to spend more to get lower quality.
>
> > Just stopped at the local nursery yesterday. As an example HD has crappy
> > looking tomato plants for $3.50/each. Her single tomato plants are grown
> > right on site and look really healthy and are $1/each. The four packs are
> > $3. She has at least 30 varieties on hand including many heirloom
> > varieties.
>
> I just don't see how HD and Lowes can sell the tomatoes for $ 3 or so each.

Because yuppies buy them and don't care. If you figure out
the economics of it, with a lot of the prices you see today,
there isn't much upside. Meaning if you factor in that you
have to actually grow the vegs, some die due to disease,
insects, animals, etc, what you wind up with, you may be
better off buying the vegs at the local farm market.

Even at most of the local garden shops here in NJ,
the price of veg plants has gone way up. City folks
moving in and they see something for $3 and think
it's fine because they wan't to be gardeners. And
actually, it is OK if you just want a couple of them.
But if you're planning on buying a variety of stuff,
dozen of them, etc, then I agree, you'd have to be
nuts to pay some of these prices.

[Ralph Mowery]

<tra...@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:dae157af-ecee-4769...@o2g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...

>>Because yuppies buy them and don't care. If you figure out
the economics of it, with a lot of the prices you see today,
there isn't much upside. Meaning if you factor in that you
have to actually grow the vegs, some die due to disease,
insects, animals, etc, what you wind up with, you may be
>>better off buying the vegs at the local farm market.

It is often cheaper to buy at a farm market. Trick is finding the good
vegs. There are two kinds. The ones to sell and the ones to eat. It is
often difficult to find a good tomato if you don't grow it yourself. The
store bought ones have been engineered to have tough skin so they can be
shipped easy.
I like a good tomato, but seldom buy one at the stores as they are more like
red cardboard.

[Norminn]

A larger, more expensive tomato plant may be ideal for someone in an
apartment who wants to grow one plant in a pot. OTOH, I just bought 36
tomato plants other day for first veg garden....intentionally a lot of
Roma for salsa and cherry tomatoes for gr'sons. Sharing with son and
his family. Lots of spinach, chard, pod peas....yumm....

Just bought a growing water lily for the pond, from a pet shop, and
apparently a frog hitched a ride. 7 Koi, the largest about 12",
survived the first winter in my care, and I survived my first spring of
pond cleaning and plumbing. Things are looking good.

[Norminn]

We have visited all of the large and small sellers here of growing
plants, and all have had single, larger tomato plants as well as small
flats of 3 or 4 plants. Everyone is taking good care of plants so far,
but when the weather get hot out on the concrete or blacktop where the
keep plants, they will suffer. I got a good deal on frazzled looking
hosta last novermber for our new home...they are doing great, and after
hacking with a shovel 4 plants have become a dozen :o)

[Ed Pawlowski]

On Sun, 5 May 2013 07:04:09 -0700 (PDT), "tra...@optonline.net"
<tra...@optonline.net> wrote:



>>
>> I just don't see how HD and Lowes can sell the tomatoes for $ 3 or so each.
>
>Because yuppies buy them and don't care.

Somehow, amongst many people, HD, Lowes, etc have a reputation of
having the lowest prices on everything you will ever need. No need to
go elsewhere. I know many people that go there as the first and
usually the only stop to buy home goods and appliances.

Fact is, local dealers often have better selection, equal or lower
prices, better service.

[recycl...@gmail.com]

The types of fruit and vegetable plants and seeds that nurseries are allowed to sell are of the inferior quality. They are not allowed to sell the commercial quality because of patent restrictions. If you want good quality you need to go to the supermarket and plant your own from what you would buy to eat.

[Home Guy]

It's a rose of some type.

[recycl...@gmail.com]

Most people have absolutely NO idea how many more varieties of plants exist. They just assume that places like HD, Armstrong, OSH or Lowes have it all. The truth is it’s just easier to feed the cattle the same hay than to worry about providing variety.

[George]

Great marketing. Do you remember the last time you turned on the TV and
didn't see an ad by hd telling you how wonderful they are?

A young couple moved in next door last year. We were discussing
landscaping. They were all set to go to hd (see above). I mentioned why
not try the local garden center. She said they easily bought 4x the
plants they could have bought at hd for the same cost and the quality is
so much better.

[tra...@optonline.net]

On May 5, 11:50 am, recyclebin...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, May 5, 2013 6:40:32 AM UTC-7, George wrote:
> > On 5/5/2013 7:50 AM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>

> > > On Sat, 4 May 2013 23:42:29 -0700 (PDT), "dcho...@hotmail.com"

>
> > > <dcho...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > >> I saw this shrub in the neighborhood. Anyone knows the name and can I
>
> > >> buy it at hone depot?
>
> > >> Here is a picture:
>
> > >>http://www.flickr.com/photos/54230006@N07/8708670467/
>
> > >> Thanks
>
> > > Looks like an azalea to me.   They are blooming here right now.
>
> > > Last place I'd buy plants is Home Depot.  You'll get better locally
>
> > > grown at a nursery.
>
> > Some might like to spend more to get lower quality.
>
> > Just stopped at the local nursery yesterday. As an example HD has crappy
>
> > looking tomato plants for $3.50/each. Her single tomato plants are grown
>
> > right on site and look really healthy and are $1/each. The four packs
>
> > are $3. She has at least 30 varieties on hand including many heirloom
>
> > varieties.
>

> The types of fruit and vegetable plants and seeds that nurseries are allowed to sell are of the inferior quality. They are not allowed to sell the commercial quality because of patent restrictions. If you want good quality you need to go to the supermarket and plant your own from what you would buy to eat.- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

That's about as dumb as dumb gets. Just the
opposite is true. There are a huge variety of seeds
and plants available.
For example, with tomatoes, you can buy everything from
heirloom varieties to the latest hybrids. Just look at a
seed catalog. At the supermarket,
you get commercial varieties that have been bred to ship
well, have a long shelf life, with taste being compromised
as a result. They are picked before they are ripe, then ripened with
ethylene gas. Who would want to grow that instead of
any of the varieties from say Burpee?

[John Grabowski]

*It looks like it came from a rose family. Check out FarmerSeed.com and
eBurgess.com

[Doug Miller]

"dch...@hotmail.com" <dch...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:c6f148d1-8891-46ec-93e0-
3686c3...@e13g2000yqp.googlegroups.com:

My wife, a Purdue University-certified Master Gardener, says it's "the old-fashioned bush type
of rose -- it probably smells nice and has plenty of thorns."

[Doug Miller]

Norminn <nor...@earthlink.net> wrote in news:1
_ednUVqqczPzRvMn...@earthlink.com:

The OP's IP address puts him in Irvine, California.

[Oren]

On Sat, 4 May 2013 23:42:29 -0700 (PDT), "dch...@hotmail.com"
<dch...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Here is a picture:
>http://www.flickr.com/photos/54230006@N07/8708670467/

Could be ground cover roses.

<http://www.countrygardenroses.co.uk/prodimages/BERKSHIRE%202%20W.jpg.jpg>

Compare the leaves.

Certainly not a bougainvillea!

[dadiOH]

dch...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I saw this shrub in the neighborhood. Anyone knows the name and can I
> buy it at hone depot?

> Here is a picture:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/54230006@N07/8708670467/
>

> Thanks

It's an azalea.

--

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[micky]

On Sun, 05 May 2013 10:43:16 -0400, Norminn <nor...@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>
>>
>>
>A larger, more expensive tomato plant may be ideal for someone in an
>apartment who wants to grow one plant in a pot. OTOH, I just bought 36
>tomato plants other day for first veg garden....intentionally a lot of
>Roma for salsa and cherry tomatoes for gr'sons. Sharing with son and
>his family. Lots of spinach, chard, pod peas....yumm....
>
>Just bought a growing water lily for the pond, from a pet shop, and
>apparently a frog hitched a ride. 7 Koi, the largest about 12",
>survived the first winter in my care, and I survived my first spring of
>pond cleaning and plumbing. Things are looking good.

Decades ago, for a dollar or two I bought via mailorder some tomatoes
(seeds, it turned out to be) in 4 2-inch quare plastic "pots", filled
with vermiculite. I couldn't even see the seeds but I watered them
and got hundreds of seedlings. Donated 15 of them to a community yard
sale, and put the rest in the window facing east. Grew to be 6 feet
tall, with roots coming out of the holes in the pot (into the
corrugated clear plastic meat tray that meat was sold in, that I kept
filled with water.)

Cherry tomatoes, so juicy that when I bit into one, it splattered on
the wall 6 feet away. And delicious.

[micky]

I agree with you except for this sentence. The poster probably
wouldn't pick them early or use ethylene gas, so he'd get a better
result than the supermarket.

[passerby]

replying to dch...@hotmail.com , passerby wrote:

> dchou4u wrote:
>
> I saw this shrub in the neighborhood. Anyone knows the name and can I
> buy it at hone depot?
> Here is a picture:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/54230006@N07/8708670467/
> Thanks

Looks like just a rose bush. I would venture a guess it's the so called
"knockout roses" that have become popular in the last couple of years.
Actually, I think it's a brand name and/or a trademark but won't be long
before we'll call any disease resistant rose "knockout rose". These are
supposedly indestructible and can withstand anything Mother Nature (or a
newb gardener) can throw at them. I have two of these and I think I almost
succeeded to kill one ;) we'll see if it recovers this summer.

I don't know if HD sells it but every local nursery worth its name does.
Perhaps it makes sense stepping outside of a big box store and supporting
a local business.

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[ChairMan]

dch...@hotmail.com wrote:
> I saw this shrub in the neighborhood. Anyone knows the
> name and can I
> buy it at hone depot?
> Here is a picture:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/54230006@N07/8708670467/
>
> Thanks

Looks like what they are calling "Knockout" Roses, bloom
prolifically and are very heat tolerant

http://www.perennialfarm.com/whatdowegrow/knockoutroses.html

[dch...@hotmail.com]

On May 5, 10:01 pm, "ChairMan" <nos...@thanks.com> wrote:

Yes It does appear to be knockout roses. Thank you everyone for your
input.
Where can I buy them in the irvine ca area?

[Doug Miller]

"dch...@hotmail.com" <dch...@hotmail.com> wrote in news:2c3b0d7f-1061-4aed-
948f-ed6...@w8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=nurseries+in+irvine+ca

[Norminn]

In Indiana, they are a major display item...never heard of them until I
started shopping for garden plants. I bought one rose this year, just
for filling space in shrub/flower beds....I hope to concentrate by
Japanese beetle battle in the vegetable garden :o) I've grown some nice
roses if you ignore the holes in petals from JB. :o(

[George]

I think most (all) commercial tomatoes are hybrids so it is a total crap
shoot what the result of propagating seeds from vegetables purchased in
the supermarket might be. And even if successful you will have a tomato
designed for its industrial qualities not taste.

The best tomatoes are the commonly called "heirloom" varieties that
typically taste great but lack all of the other qualities desired for
industrial tomatoes such as thicker skin, better appearance and more
uniform size. You can easily purchase heirloom seeds and plants.