Can you identify this bush / tree

[Jim Oaks]

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This ou s growing along my property line. They're like a bush that was neglected and turned in to a tree.

 

[snoranger]

Rhododendron. (I had to look up how the hell you spell it! I didn’t even attempt to remember, cut and paste for the win.)
We have 4 or 5 of them around the yard, each one has different color flowers. They will get pretty big, the one next to my driveway is 9-10’ tall.

 

[Dirtman]

I have a bunch of those. Dunno what they are. They make pretty flowers in early summer.

They must be poisonous, nothing eats them and ive seen goat eat freaking poison ivy...

 

[ericbphoto]

I agree with Sno. Learn to trim/prune them properly. They’ll bloom nicely.

 

[saxtech]

Download the FREE app called "Google Lens" . Open the app, point it at the object and click the shutter button. It will use your phones camera to search for a match for any flower, plant or object.. Its a really fun app and you can point it at almost anything that you want to identify. I haven't used it long enough to testify to its accuracy for everything, but I pointed at my computer mouse and my TV remote and it gave me the brand, the model, and where to buy it.... "Google Lens" App..... Let us know how you like it and if it identifies the plant and flower accurately please.

 

[snoranger]

Download the app called "Google Lens" . Open the app, point it at the object and click the shutter button. It will use your phones camera to search for a match for any flower, plant or object.. Its a really fun app and you can point it at almost anything that you want to identify. I haven't used it long enough to testify to its accuracy for everything, but I pointed at my computer mouse and my TV remote and it gave me the brand, the model, and where to buy it.... "Google Lens" App..... Let us know how you like it and if it identifies the plant and flower accurately please.

Why?? We need things to talk about other than just Rangers. We might as well discuss Jim’s landscaping.
If he had downloaded the app, figured out what it was, and cut it down... than we wouldn’t have this thread which will turn in 4-5 pages of information (most of it useless nonsense.)

 

[Dirtman]

Exactly! And why wont my goat eat it!?

 

[saxtech]

Why?? We need things to talk about other than just Rangers. We might as well discuss Jim’s landscaping.
If he had downloaded the app, figured out what it was, and cut it down... than we wouldn’t have this thread which will turn in 4-5 pages of information (most of it useless nonsense.)

LOL .... Good point but talking about ANYTHING the Google Lens app is pointed at could lead to an encyclopedia of topics. I see many threads here that turn into threads about Pickles. I don't know why Pickles take over the Rangers. But point it at a pickle, or a human body part. Then you'll see some interesting talk

 

[Jim Oaks]

I thought the leaves looked like a rhododendron but I didn't know the gro so damn big. I had one at my last house, but kept it trimmed.

I was going to eventually cut them down when I put up a privacy fence. Now that I know what they are I'd be tempted to cut them down to about a foot or two and let them grow back out if i have room along the fence.

 

[Dirtman]

But point it at a pickle, or a human body part. Then you'll see some interesting talk

You have just opened a Pandoras box you can never close...

 

[Dirtman]

I thought the leaves looked like a rhododendron but I didn't know the gro so damn big. I had one at my last house, but kept it trimmed.

I was going to eventually cut them down when I put up a privacy fence. Now that I know what they are I'd be tempted to cut them down to about a foot or two and let them grow back out if i have room along the fence.

If they are the same as what I have, cutting them doesn't hurt them at all. They will grow back from a stump barely coming out of the dirt like locust trees do. Mine are pretty and make my property not look like a swamp full of death so I let them go now. Same with these insane roses my dad planted in my front yard years ago. I hated them and hacked them down, never do anything to them and have beautiful roses ever year. I gave up and sell roses to the winery now. They come over and cut all the flowers when they have events to make table pieces and give me $100 bucks.

 

[ericbphoto]

LOL .... Good point but talking about ANYTHING the Google Lens app is pointed at could lead to an encyclopedia of topics. I see many threads here that turn into threads about Pickles. I don't know why Pickles take over the Rangers. But point it at a pickle, or a human body part. Then you'll see some interesting talk

Let’s NOT do the body part thing.

 

[Dirtman]

Let’s NOT do the body part thing.

K. Deleting photos....

 

[adsm08]

Exactly! And why wont my goat eat it!?

LMGTFY

They are poisionous. Apparently goats are supposed to like the taste and eat them even though they get sick from it.

 

[snoranger]

LMGTFY

They are poisionous. Apparently goats are supposed to like the taste and eat them even though they get sick from it.

I assume Goat is smarter than that... he is a lawyer.