Texas plant IDs

[DTS]

Does anyone know what these flowering plants are right here?

[Silas_Sancona]

10 minutes ago, DTS1 said:

Does anyone know what these flowering plants are right here?

Vinca ( Madagascar Periwinkle )  and some sort of Multiflora Rose.  Happy New Year!

[redbeard917]

Yep, Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) and drift roses. The former is an old passalong plant that is easy to grow and somewhat invasive. It pops up all around the parent plant, even in cracks in the sidewalk. I even had a friend take a boat out to a barrier island in FL and ask me to identify an unusual pink flower that was growing there, and it was clearly this one. However in my garden I don't really mind it, because they only sprout once a year in spring, and only within about 10 feet of the parent, and not in great numbers. So I just pull the ones I don't want, and keep the ones I do, and it doesn't make more of a nuisance of itself. But the one you showed in the photo looks like a cultivar that is sold as an annual. It has been in that location for a bit and stretched out. I haven't seen the one currently in the nursery trade being invasive.

[Silas_Sancona]

6 hours ago, redbeard917 said:

Yep, Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) and drift roses. The former is an old passalong plant that is easy to grow and somewhat invasive. It pops up all around the parent plant, even in cracks in the sidewalk. I even had a friend take a boat out to a barrier island in FL and ask me to identify an unusual pink flower that was growing there, and it was clearly this one. However in my garden I don't really mind it, because they only sprout once a year in spring, and only within about 10 feet of the parent, and not in great numbers. So I just pull the ones I don't want, and keep the ones I do, and it doesn't make more of a nuisance of itself. But the one you showed in the photo looks like a cultivar that is sold as an annual. It has been in that location for a bit and stretched out. I haven't seen the one currently in the nursery trade being invasive.

Notice the same thing here as well ...Get a few seedlings poppin' up in ideal spots ( where there is a regular source of moisture )  but you won't find them trying to take over a planting bed ..or yard, lol.

Being perennial here, most seedlings will go on to flower within the same year / following years, and barely flinch in a few to several hours of our flavor of full sun during the summer, as long as they receive regular water, or when exposed to the occasional dips to ..or just below 32F in winter.



Noticed the same thing regarding some of the " newer " cultivars  No seedlings off any of those noted yet. Bummer because a Gopher ate all my dark purple ones i'd planted last spring.  

As toxic as the plant itself can be ( Chemical compounds < certain Alkaloids >  the plant produces are processed to create a couple types of medications to help treat several types of Cancer ) 

Unless they died from consuming plants later, Gophers seemed un-fazed by consuming these.   ..Newer variety at least, not an older one i have planted.. Watched as one pulled an entire plant down into it's tunnel last spring.  Furry B-tard,  haha.

Same Family ( Dogbane / Apocynaceae  ) ..and sub family ( Rauvolfioideae ) as Plumeria,   Amsonia,  Thevesia / Cascabela, Natal Plum,  True Vinca,  and  Tabernaemontana / Stemmadenia.

[Xenon]

Madagascar periwinkle is by far the best bedding plant here...immune to nematodes, horrible tap water, high heat/humidity, and just flowers its head off even in poor soil. Had a few light frosts here and nearly touched the freezing mark but hasn't phased the flower show at all. 

'Cora XDR' is the best new selection. It's resistant to Phytophthora (not immune) which is about the only thing that bothers periwinkle here.  Super vigorous with large blooms, it also produces many volunteers.