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Apart from brown and dormant what kind of grass is this?  Anyone identify this bush?  |
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« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2010, 04:43:51 AM » |
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Paul my guess is zoysia It looks like c r a p over the winter but its impossible to kill when it stops raining for a month in the hot summer Ours requieres zero maintenance just cut it and forget it
Have it in part of my front yard from the prior owners 25 yrs ago VERY HARD TO KILL you will have to go down a foot and cart it out replace with dirt and plant fresh kentucky bluegrass if you dont like it
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« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2010, 05:22:26 AM » |
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Paul my guess is zoysia It looks like c r a p over the winter but its impossible to kill when it stops raining for a month in the hot summer Ours requieres zero maintenance just cut it and forget it
Have it in part of my front yard from the prior owners 25 yrs ago VERY HARD TO KILL you will have to go down a foot and cart it out replace with dirt and plant fresh kentucky bluegrass if you dont like it
I do like it. Need to identify so that I can kill the weeds growing in it. |
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« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2010, 08:00:17 AM » |
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Take a look at Weed-be-Gone. I'm not sure about zoysia, but concentrate mixed in a pump sprayer kills most weeds without affecting my tall fescue. Zoysia is about the best grass there is for choking out weeds (or anything else). http://www.american-lawns.com/grasses/zoysia.htmlThat shrub may be an old oleander, one of the most poisonous of commonly grown garden plants, and can be very toxic if ingested in sufficient quantity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerium_oleander |
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« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2010, 08:09:05 AM » |
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The bush looks more like something in the crepe myrtle family or possibly flowering peach.
I'm from the west coast and we had our share of oleandor and I don't believe you'll find that to be one.
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« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2010, 09:35:22 AM » |
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Take a look at Weed-be-Gone. I'm not sure about zoysia, but concentrate mixed in a pump sprayer kills most weeds without affecting my tall fescue. Zoysia is about the best grass there is for choking out weeds (or anything else). http://www.american-lawns.com/grasses/zoysia.htmlThat shrub may be an old oleander, one of the most poisonous of commonly grown garden plants, and can be very toxic if ingested in sufficient quantity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerium_oleander Not oleander because it loses all of its leaves in the fall. The clumps of blooms arrived first and now new leaves are growing from the blooms. Could be a Triffid?  |
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« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2010, 09:39:02 AM » |
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That shrub may be an old oleander, one of the most poisonous of commonly grown garden plants, and can be very toxic if ingested in sufficient quantity. Just curious but was there some reason you thought Britman might be snackin on it? Marty |
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« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2010, 09:42:51 AM » |
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Killem all and let God sort them out.
Typical American respnse, it has to be a war or we don't get anything done.
War on Drugs
War on Terroists
War on Obesity
War on illliteracy
and on and on
Good luck on the weeds and that is a nice looking bloomer of a bush you have there.
Don't have a clue on either species.
If I keep my weeds cut even I have a pretty nice looking lawn.
Al
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« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2010, 09:44:35 AM » |
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That's funny Marty, I don't care who you are.
Al
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« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2010, 04:27:27 PM » |
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It is a flowering almond or peach.
However it does not give fruit.
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« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2010, 06:08:14 PM » |
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That shrub may be an old oleander, one of the most poisonous of commonly grown garden plants, and can be very toxic if ingested in sufficient quantity. Just curious but was there some reason you thought Britman might be snackin on it? Marty No..... but I recalled he has a couple dogs, who don't normally eat bushes, but some will. And BTW Britman, I looked at my jug of Weed-be-Gone, and it is ok on Zoysia. |
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« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2010, 07:55:55 PM » |
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No need to identify anything , if it's dormant , spray weeds with Round Up , will not hurt dormant plants . This is the kink of work I do daily , spray weeds and bugs Paul my guess is zoysia It looks like c r a p over the winter but its impossible to kill when it stops raining for a month in the hot summer Ours requieres zero maintenance just cut it and forget it
Have it in part of my front yard from the prior owners 25 yrs ago VERY HARD TO KILL you will have to go down a foot and cart it out replace with dirt and plant fresh kentucky bluegrass if you dont like it
I do like it. Need to identify so that I can kill the weeds growing in it. |
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