A Gardeners Forum Forums Gardening Reference Gardening in 2007 Anyone know what this is?

Kinda has leaves like some kind of grape but just started growing near the house.

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oh oh! we grow those at the garden too! i donno what they are though lol. Marigold comes to mind, but i don't think that's it. There's a buncha those feathery lookin things all over the place though.

Don't know what the plant in frount is but the big leaves in the back are Elephant's Ear.

Is it some type of tree that has seeded itself? It's hard to tell, but I think I have these too and that's what they are.

Yep, I have a bunch of elephant ears. They've decided to grow under the corner of the house (I live in a mobile home) and come up in the back yard. My dog hasn't tried eating them, but I don't want him to. I've been trying to move them to beds running parallel & the length of my fenceline. They grow & multiply so fast that I'm having a hard time getting my bed ready & moving them. And, we've had a lot of rain lately, so they are growing & my work is at a stand still.

I don't think it's a tree (though, it would be a pretty one, if it was) but I'm gonna watch it just a little while & see what happens. I think I've got some more on the fenceline.

Here are a couple more pics. Same thing in another location (on the fence) and this one is bigger.

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I think this is some kind of wild grapevine...?

Does it bloom right after it rains? Is it spreading everywhere you let it?

I'm not sure about the blooming but yes, it is all over my yard. I pull it out of my flower beds and mow it down in the yard. It's actually kind of pretty but it sure is buggin' me.

In the close-up pictures, the leaves look like my astillbe, but in the picture on the fence the plant looks too tall and spread out to be one...

Oh, well... just a guess...

I can't tell from the pictures, but it looks like trumpet vine to me. Does it bloom orange flowers that look like a victrola speaker? If so, that's what this is. It's highly invasive. Look for the mother plant (which may be in your neighbor's yard). They multiply by sending shoots underground and they have extremely deep roots. What a pain! Mine have sent shoots under my house and are popping up on the other side. I swear, they're pretty but awful!

I can't tell from the pictures, but it looks like trumpet vine to me. Does it bloom orange flowers that look like a victrola speaker? If so, that's what this is. It's highly invasive. Look for the mother plant (which may be in your neighbor's yard). They multiply by sending shoots underground and they have extremely deep roots. What a pain! Mine have sent shoots under my house and are popping up on the other side. I swear, they're pretty but awful!

I don't have any that have blooms. I looked up the trumpet vine & it says that they "bloom all year". Mine don't have any at the time, but to think back, seems like I remember some of those blooms, in the past.

It is very invasive & it does grow with runners under the ground. I'll watch it...if it blooms, I'll know for sure.

In Nebraska, they only bloom in the summer months and the plants in your pictures don't appear to be mature enough to bloom yet. It can take a couple of years for that, so if you don't want them to get a foothold, start ripping them out now. It IS possible to keep them pruned so they don't take over everything, but it takes a lot of work. And I've found that the more I pruned the main vine, the more shoots it sent out underground... a losing battle for me.

Thanks! Yes, I asked my husband about these & he remembers seeing those flowers on our fence line in the past years. They are literally everywhere. Most get mowed down but I have them coming up in my elephant ears, my cannas, on other fencing, etc. I can't seem to get rid of them. I pull them out of most places but it's just getting ridiculous!

I think it looks like cimcifuga (bugbane). It usually gets pretty tall for a perennial, like 6-7 ft or so. It's a part-sun to shade plant. The part that id's it best is, when you touch the leaves alot it smells absolutly horrid. The bloom is suppose to smell good though, here in Washington they are starting to bloom.

Hi jollyjess, and welcome to the site!

I've googled all those guesses & the best fit, so far, is the trumpet vine. I've noticed the trumpet vines, growing wild, all over town. I keep waiting on the blooms, this year, on my fence, but nothing yet.

we call them weeds here. I kill as many as I can find. It's the trumpet vine and they spread like wild fire, here's a lonk to them
http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/cmira.htm

Sami ~ I planted a red and a yellow trumpet vine to grow over my shed 11 years ago. It is growing as I wanted, but it took 5 years before I saw the first bloom!!! I've heard that is common with these plants, so just sit tight and wait.

While it can be invasive, I have found a few spots in the garden where it pops up, but I can quickly take care of that by just pulling those stems out. It really hasn't been as bad as I have read about it - especially recently, not only here, but other sites as well...


BEST PART ~ the hummers love it!!!

Does the trumpet vine have these berries?

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It's a little late on this one, but I can't help but be reminded of the Boston Ivy my neighbor had planted to climb her fence, then decided she didn't like it. If you don't get flowers on that vine, it might be Boston Ivy.