Help Me Identify My Plants - PIP Heavy

ccc11

Hi, I bought a house back in February and I don't know anything about plants. Since last month, tons of plants have popped up in my garden. I live in MA. Can you guys help me identify them? TIA

 

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2 - I think this is a specie of hosta.  Am I correct?

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5 - the tall standing shrub in the middle

6 - This shrub had green leaves and brown flowers right after snow melted. When spring came, the flowers turned white, and red leaves started popping up here and there.

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10 - The tall grassy bundle in the picture. The rest of the plants/buds in this photo are the same as the ones in picture 11.

11 - This picture has a few different plants in it. This was taken on 5/1.

12 - This picture is the same area as picture 11, taken on 5/14 after everything opened up.

13 - The green tall stalks in middle front of this picture. I don't know if this is a weed or a plant that was meant to be here. This plant is in the same area as picture 11 and 12.

14 - This is a decorative grass. Before I pruned it, it looked like cousin Itt from Addams' family.

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16 - I'm not sure if the stalks in picture 15 and 16 are the same or not. But I have a sea of 15 right next to a sea of 16.

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19 - These are growing on the perimeter of my lawn. The left 

square is what the right ones look like before they're fully grown.

20 - I'm not sure if this is some kind of weed. But it's growing 

by itself next to the brick perimeter around the back. 

ChristyDM82

These are my guesses on some of your pics (it's hard for me to tell on a lot of the pics because it's not close enough for me to see the leaves well).

 

1.  Possibly a type of spirea

2.  Hosta

7.  Looks like a hydrangea

11/12.  Not sure about the ones that have the purple flowers but the rest is Lily of the Valley

18.  Chives

20.  My guess is a weed 

TootsieK

ccc11:

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This looks kind of like an azalea, but why not in bloom?  must be something else.

2 - I think this is a specie of hosta.  Am I correct?    Yes

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Hard to tell, but looks like azalea 

4 -  Keep a close eye on this one.  It's going to be either really good or really bad.  Looks almost like a thistle, but could be one of those lovely daisy-flowered plants.   

5 - the tall standing shrub in the middle  Really can't tell from photo -- could it be mountain laurel? The leaves seem a little large for that.

6 - This shrub had green leaves and brown flowers right after snow melted. When spring came, the flowers turned white, and red leaves started popping up here and there.    Just a guess, but it might be pieris

7 -Hydrangea.  DO NOT PRUNE until after bloom.  If it's an old-fashioned variety, it only blooms on old wood.

 

8 -  I think it's called stonecrop.

 

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Phlox

 

10 - The tall grassy bundle in the picture. The rest of the plants/buds in this photo are the same as the ones in picture 11.   Again, hard to tell from the photograph, without scale. It could be liriope, or a daylily, or something else altogether! 

11 - This picture has a few different plants in it. This was taken on 5/1 

The broadleaves with flowers are wild violets. They are a love 'em or hate 'em plant.  I love them, but you do have to careful -- they wll spread everywhere.  On the other hand, they will also thrive where you can't get anything else to grow, so they are good for problem areas -- and they are free!.

12 - This picture is the same area as picture 11, taken on 5/14 after everything opened up.

The white-flowered plants are lily of the valley. They smell wonderful!

13 - The green tall stalks in middle front of this picture. I don't know if this is a weed or a plant that was meant to be here. This plant is in the same area as picture 11 and 12.

I think these are weeds. As I recall, they get a flower, but it's not worth waiting for or putting up with the sloppy-looking foliage for,

14 - This is a decorative grass. Before I pruned it, it looked like cousin Itt from Addams' family.

Again, this could be liriope.  It's hard to tell how large it is.

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16 - I'm not sure if the stalks in picture 15 and 16 are the same or not. But I have a sea of 15 right next to a sea of 16.

16 is either daylily or Dutch iris -- 15 might be daylily also. The yellow flowers in the background of 16 are dandelion -- rip 'em out by the roots! 

17 -Iris    

18 - Alium 

19 - These are growing on the perimeter of my lawn. The left 

square is what the right ones look like before they're fully grown.

Ferns -- watch out,they will choke out everything else.  

Keep them in an area where you can control them or get rid of them altogether.

20 - I'm not sure if this is some kind of weed. But it's growing 

by itself next to the brick perimeter around the back. 

Well, I think it's a weed, but what the heck, give it a year and see if it surprises you with a lovely flower.

CollegeGrrl219

2. Yes, this is a hosta.

9. Creeping phlox

11. violets

12 Lily of the Valley

13. some sort of weed

14. Pampas grass

15. Day lilies?

17. Iris

18.chives (the leaves are edible)

19.  ferns

20. Probably a weed.

TootsieK

It just occurred to me that some of your "grasses" may be liatris/gayfeather.  Lovely flowers in the summer, but end to spread quickly and randomly. 

hippie4yahweh

ccc11:

I'll try not to be too redundant with the PP, but our yards have many of the same plants so I thought I'd chime in!

4 - This one looks like it could be a few things- blooms will tell you for sure. It could be a variety of daisy, or a weed, or poppy   

5 - the tall standing shrub in the middle

6 - 5&6 definitely look like pieris to me- Japanese pieris, actually (I love them and keep killing them)

 

8 - Definitely stonecrop- I can see mine outside the window and it looks exactly the same 

13 - The green tall stalks in middle front of this picture. I don't know if this is a weed or a plant that was meant to be here. This plant is in the same area as picture 11 and 12.  -  Looks like a weed to me!

14 -  Definitely a grass- maybe just a fountain grass? If so, you can split it if it gets too big, fyi

15 -This looks like my tiger lillies

 

16 - I don't think these are the same, but they could be another variety of lily

18 - Chives- I'd pull these before they spread everywhere. They're much better in a garden or in a pot

19 - These are ferns, and COULD be a native species. They need tons and tons of water to survive. 

(if they dry out, though, they'll most likely be back so you can try again next year!) 

20 - Definitely a weed, I have them popping up everywhere. They get ridiculously tall and ugly

~NB~

1. Boxwood

2. Hosta

3. Azalea

4. Thistle? Unsure

5. Pieris

6. Pieris or Kalmia

7. Hydrangea

8. Sedum

9. Creeping phlox

10. grass

11. Violets

12. Convularia

13. Looks like Summer Phlox (upright)

14. Grass

15. Some Iris type

16. Another Iris

17. Another Iris (bearded)

18. Allium family (garlic. onions, chives)

19. I see a fern on the right and something else unidentifiable on the left (that looks like a bunch of weeds)

20. undesirable (weed)

ccc11

Thanks everyone for the help! Now I know what to expect.

I didn't realized dandelions are weed (when they were young), even tried not to mulch over them before. Within 1 month they started popping up everywhere. I just spent a full weekend pulling them up. Now I have a full bag of dandelions and very sore thighs.

pdxmouse

I don't think 13 is a weed, I've seen it grown intentionally. Pretty purple/pinkish flowers iirc.

16 looks a lot like my crocosmia does right now, it blooms in late summer.

~NB~

pdxmouse:

16 looks a lot like my crocosmia does right now.

Mine too. It's definitely some type of summer bulb.

Temp534591562502098

I'm in Upstate NY so a lot of these are similar to whats around me. 

First, those plants with the dead stalks - cut those dead stalks back so this year;s growth has more room. 

1 looks like a flowering bush - I wanna say spider bush or butterfly bush? Something like that. Booms in summer.

5_ I have this too - it has a bad name that starts with a P it gets white little bell flowers on it.

6) this looks like a Sedum - its a suculent. It will get "flowers" in the fall that turn pink and then a rust color - pretty all year long. 

11) those heart-shaped leaves are violets that are just weeds - pull them now while they are small or pay the price late this summer when they get huge.

 17 - looks like iris??

18 chives

19 ferns - native

20 - weed!!

 

 

Temp534591562502098

13 is a weed. I usually leave them til later because I forget every year if its a weed or not!

Katie&Dan

It's hard to tell, but is #1 a variegated leaf?  If it's green & yellow like it appears to me, it could be euonymus.  Mine are small still, but I think they can get big too.

FoxinFiji

I think the pp have everything covered.  I just wanted to clarify that #19 is either an Ostrich Fern or an Interrupted Fern it's hard to tell from the picture.  If they have fuzzy felt-like covers on the unfurling heads they are Interrupted.  If not they are Ostrich which spreads by runners in addition to spores over time so be aware of that.  I have and love both but I keep the Ostrich Ferns in areas I don't mind them spreading.