A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 What is this beautiful plant?

I just moved into a new house and in the front yard is this beautiful flowering tree - and everyone I asks gives me a different answer on what it is! Anyone here have an idea?

Is it a daisy tree? It sure is pretty!

Dianna

it looks like a type of forsythia but i'm not sure.they look like tiny lillies too

Hi Angelfaery

Yellow Azalea???? ???? ????

#2 Yellow Azalea????

Weezie

I agree with Weezie. It looks like a yellow azalea. It sure is gorgeous!

Gardencrazy

That whole setting or picture area is gorgeous..
The colors compliment each other....

Here's some pages from Bill's Garden Helper
on growing and taking care of them...

Guide to Growing Azaleas in the Garden

Caring for Ailing Azaleas

Transplanting Azaleas and Rhododendrons

I vote for the forsythia you find them all over western washington. If you have a bunch of branches growing out of the ground and the plant blooms with flowers before even one leaf shows up that's your best bet. Most of the azaleas I have seen up north never got that tall.

I'm still sayin' the Azalea...

*****Angelfaery,
Do you have a closer picture of the
leaves and flower???

Weezie

Thanks for all the replies! I don't have a closer photo - but I will get one tonight and post it tomorrow!

What's the red bush next to it???
Would love !!!

I apologize Weezie your right.

I just figured out I could enlarge the picture. I don't need glasses I need a magnifing glass and a brain.

Sorry again.

I didn't even know that azaleas come in yellow. They are just gorgeous! Gotta put it on my shopping list!

Dianna

They also come in orange. They are very nice in these colours. Very bright for spring. We have the orange growing wild.

orange azalea

Gardencrazy

After looking at closeups of both the yellow azaela and the mystery plant, it looks to me like the leaves and bark are different. I have to say I still think the mystery plant is a forsythia halfway between bloom and leafing. But then, I have been known to be wrong before!!!!!

I have never seen a yellow azalea either. Does anyone know where to buy one. No one in my area has them. I did see an orange one, really orange, last week in Winston Salem. It was beautiful.

Sky Nursery just north of Seattle Washington.

They are deciduous azaleas. There are yellow, orange & regular azalea colors. 'Exbury' is the most common, I believe, but there are other cultivars.

exbury yellow

I have not come across a Yellow Azalea before.
The flowers look like a azalea, but as Fernie said the leaves are different. So I am not sure.

Now I want an orange one, too! Gosh, those yellow and orange are beautiful. Can you imagine what they would look like planted next to each other?

Dianna

Darn - I brought my camera to work to upload the close-up photos and guess what - I forgot the cord to connect the camera to the computer! :rolleyes: So I will upload them tonight when I get home, I promise!

To answer weezie's question about the red bush next to it, I was told it is a camellia. Here is a close-up photo of its gorgeous flower!

Angelfaery,
That is a gorgeous bush/flower!!!
How lucky are you????

What have you done to it??
It's beautiful???

We have alot of questions here all the time
about those bushes!!

Weezie

Thanks for the picture, I appreciate it!!

That is a rose camellia. I have one just like it.

Aw man.. I'm jealous. I love the cameillas. Can never seem to get ahold of one tho. *sigh*

Meg

LOL! To answer your questions Weezie, I am extremely lucky! Especially since I just moved into this house and so I got all the rewards of these beautiful plants and didn't have to do any of the work!

Here are some close up shots of the yellow flowers, I also included one of the leaves. I really think it is an azalea, do you?

IMHO That definately looks like an azalea to me. Beautiful!

Donna