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Unusual plants in your garden
Helen V28-Jul-22
When we first moved to our present home, we discovered a weird-looking plant called homalocladium platycladium. It is also known as a tapeworm plant or centipede plant, which describes it well. It has flat segmented branches instead of the usual rounded ones.
Do you have any unusual plants?
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  • Mary M 329762
    My husband job not my
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    • Ruth v
      yes.
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      • Carolyn K 714554
        Most people know a walking tree when they see it but don't know it walks. It is called a Banana tree. Each year it fruits and dies down but it sends up another shoot for the next year right next to the old shoot. (1 step per year.)
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        • JANET R 328390
          Wow - thanks for that info. I have never heard of that.
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      • Lyndee K 920290
        Stickers
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        • Priscilla R 316016
          We have an Australian native garden and it is hard to keep up with the pruning, but other than that it doesn't take much looking after.
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          • graeme m 189162
            strangest thing i ever found was very early in the morning, an elderly man deciding which of my plants took his fancy, would have loved to plant him
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            • JANET R 328390
              Oh no......
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          • diane c QLD
            no none
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            • karen h 72084
              i do like gardening
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              • Basu B
                I live in rooftop apartments
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                • Busyasabee NZ
                  Yes unusual plant named Jockeys Cap. It’s such a beautiful flower which lasts a day then another one appears.
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                  • Poppy
                    Grass
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                    • Catalina
                      I wish I would...
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                      • Edith v
                        we have moved into a new place ,garden well established lots of ferns & other plants a bird paradise plants we don't know names of
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                        • Paul J 94868
                          That sounds interesting. I don't think my plants are unusual as such. Mainly a mix of Orchids,Lilys,Ferns and Palms...
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                          • LEAH G. (Philippines CEBU )
                            WE HAVE A GARDEN BEFORE MY FATHER ASSIGNED ME TO TAKE CARE OF IT.HE SAID TO ME IF YOU SAW AN UNUSUAL PLANTS YOU HAVE TO REMOVE AND THE GARDEN WILL LOOK GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL SPECIALLY IF IT ARRANGE WELL..
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                            • Helen L 750218
                              Does this plant have any medicinal properties?
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                              • Tiffany L 690503
                                I would like an garden
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                                • Smiley
                                  I have a heap of (Aussie) Natives and some bulbs in the front yard and it's mainly herbs and vegies in the back yard. I don't consider any as unusual, although i do like growing plants that are a bit different from their "common" variety.
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                                  • APB
                                    My son took a keen interest in gardening in his teens....but we managed to remove them on a regular basis...
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                                    • Joe B 288252
                                      I have a penchant for patio roses…..lol
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                                      • Henrietta
                                        None
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                                        • Annette D 716821
                                          I don't know what it is called, but it appears.for about a week each year. It is one single.long bloom and the birds love it. It is so out of place in our garden, but the pleasure the birds bring us for that brief time each year stops us from moving or removing it. It is the weirdest thing...
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                                          • Paul B 522937
                                            Don’t have a garden
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                                            • misfortune8
                                              I did a Google image search for homalocladium platycladium - yes, it's a weird one! On my inner city balcony, I grow tarragon, my favourite herb, & aloe vera. Every household needs an aloe vera plant! It's good for stings, cuts & burns.
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                                              • Jenny L 591463
                                                Mostly we grow weeds and clover is going nuts right now, we have fire weed which is a pretty yellow flowered weed. Looks a little like a daisy. The cranium hybrids are a little frost bitten at the moment but should come good in spring and we have lovely orange gladioli. I would like to get a different coloured ones. We also have roses which I love would like some more of those. Just planted a rhubarb which is slowly taking hold and can't wait to be able to harvest some yummy.
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                                                • Carolina Z
                                                  a few which names I don't know, I let them grow for a while till I am sure they are not pests.
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                                                  • Rifat H
                                                    We didn't even have grass in our front or back yards when we first moved in our newly built house. It was also a newly created suburb which they cleared bushland to make in the early 90's. Our mother handed a pack of grass seeds to my sister and myself to scatter around our house, when we got back from school. It took months before the grass grew and covered our yards. So just seeing Grass Lawn for the first time around our house felt like a Miracle ;-)
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                                                    • Katzeye
                                                      Can't say I do but I know there are a lot of unusual weeds out there lol.
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                                                      • Carolyn H 319412
                                                        I don't have any plants in my garden except for a geranium in a pot.
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                                                        • lulu
                                                          I found a garlic plant I didn't put in my vegie patch
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                                                          • PETER M 134659
                                                            cool to look at. as for me, i have hardly any garden.
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                                                            • roger l 315504
                                                              my garden mainly contains suculents and survivors, oh and well nutured rhubarb.
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                                                              • allin
                                                                strawberry rhubarb pie, with vanilla ice cream,,, droooooollllsss ;-))
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                                                              • roger l 315504allin
                                                                Yep, get over a kilo of thick red rhubarb stalks whenever we harvest,
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                                                            • Pauline T 68358
                                                              Just about every weed ever invented !!!!
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                                                              • Sonya F 68771
                                                                No unusual plants
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                                                                • Sandra C 12043
                                                                  I just sold house that i rented out and bought home some Gymea Lily Plants. Going to pot them and sell off as they are expensaive to buy. Somewhere along the line a tenant has planted and it is quite big now. It is a long spiny leaf with a flower stalk that goes up 15 to 20 feet into the air with a small bunch of dark pink flowers. Nice when they are small.
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                                                                  • misfortune8
                                                                    I LOVE those, Sandra! I call them triffids, haha!
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                                                                  • Kathy C 90112
                                                                    I absolutely love Gymeas, had mine about 10 years now, and finally its shot up and forming the flower, its next to the pride of madeira, another spectacular plant
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                                                                • Larry S 382961
                                                                  Just got a few weeds as they appear now and then out of thin air. All the recent rain hasn’t helped
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                                                                  • merricat
                                                                    I planted sunflowers this year, but we haven't had much rain lately, so they're not doing so well. We went on vacation and when we got home the birds or chipmunks had attacked the few that had flowered. Sad!
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                                                                    • Libby P
                                                                      I had a funny looking plant in my yard, didn’t catch the name of it though, so I pulled it up and threw it out. It was making my yard look bad.
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                                                                      • Jan H 753322
                                                                        no unusual plants but lots of onion grass which is driving us crazy
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                                                                        • IdentifyAs
                                                                          The only unusual plants in my garden are the ones that can stay alive!!
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                                                                          • Pat C 618241
                                                                            Over the past 10 years I have noticed plants, weeds I guess, that I've never seen before. I've been told that when we get winds from the west, seeds can be blown to Australia from as far away as South Africa
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                                                                            • Lachelle B
                                                                              My brother and his family stayed with us for a month. When they left I noticed wee tomato plants growing where I didn't plant any....
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                                                                              • Helen Stiglec
                                                                                Sorry dont have a garden
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                                                                                • Roslyn A
                                                                                  I currently have a VERY unusual plant (probably a weed) as a result of all the bird frequenting my garden.
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                                                                                  • Scott R 947830
                                                                                    I grow hops (I brew my own beer)
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                                                                                    • APB
                                                                                      Is that difficult Scott?
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                                                                                  • Susan W 939788
                                                                                    No to having a garden I go for walks & admire others
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                                                                                    • allin
                                                                                      i have a garden, and i do have some unusual plants,,,, ;-))
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                                                                                      • Elizabeth A 807208
                                                                                        nothing unusual
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                                                                                        • Asesh S
                                                                                          Have a garden but no unusual plants.
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                                                                                          • GRAEME W 313058
                                                                                            Do not have a garden
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                                                                                            • Claude H
                                                                                              Yes & some I have no idea what they are
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                                                                                              • Igor A
                                                                                                To me it looks like there are a lot more of unusual plants in our garden than it does to my wife.
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                                                                                                • Gillian G 939184
                                                                                                  In my garden flowers and veges would be unusual because the only thing I seem to be able to grow are weeds
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                                                                                                  • SueM2
                                                                                                    Not that I know of, but I'm no gardener! (I'd rather read a book)
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                                                                                                    • Sheree T
                                                                                                      No I haven't.
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                                                                                                      • Elizabeth J 447888
                                                                                                        Last year I was wandering through Coles supermarket and saw a Stingray plant. It has big green, glossy leaves which are round with a long green tail - just exactly the shape of a Stingray. I just had to have it.
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                                                                                                        • mary c
                                                                                                          wow that sounds cool.
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                                                                                                      • Megan K 659578
                                                                                                        No
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                                                                                                        • Frank N
                                                                                                          No
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                                                                                                          • Melanie H 659402
                                                                                                            i don't
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                                                                                                            • kristian s 513441
                                                                                                              I don't have a garden.
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                                                                                                              • boy blunder
                                                                                                                its unusual that i get anything to grow
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                                                                                                                • Colleen M 510798
                                                                                                                  Yeah, for the norm around here, I guess. My boyfriend is growing melon and we have a blueberry plant and all kinds of fruits and veggies. I plan on growing more flowers, fruits and veggies soon.
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                                                                                                                  • Linda C
                                                                                                                    I live in the sub tropics and I used to have gorgeous ferns, tree ferns, plants to bring in the birds and insects. It was lovely. Now I live in a townhouse with a small back and front yard but I have again planted flora that brings insects and I have a bird bath and love watching the birds throughout the day taking a drink or a bath. My garden would be unusual for other areas or countries I guess though but for here it is quite the norm.
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                                                                                                                    • Nola B 392757
                                                                                                                      My whole garden is weird lol Thanks to climate change I live in a cold climate but I can grow citrus fruits,olives etc My favourite plants are the Elephant ears when they flower...for a couple of days they give off the most stunning fragrance...wish I could bottle it.
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                                                                                                                      • BLACK LIVES MATTER
                                                                                                                        I have "never" own a garden - therefore, my response is "NO" :-)!
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                                                                                                                        • 'smee,SWQ!
                                                                                                                          Apparently some gardeners grow plants with jagged leaves that look like tomato plants but are not!
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                                                                                                                          • boy blunder
                                                                                                                            had a couple of those in my time don't see them in my garden anymore though
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                                                                                                                          • mary cboy blunder
                                                                                                                            haha did they "disappear"?
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                                                                                                                          • boy blundermary c
                                                                                                                            like magic
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                                                                                                                          • Katzeye
                                                                                                                            Seen some just like that over my neighbours fence lol
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                                                                                                                          • boy blundermary c
                                                                                                                            should say they dissapeared in a puff of smoke
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                                                                                                                          • mary cboy blunder
                                                                                                                            haaaa i bet they did :) When my hubby was at Brain Injury centre after his stroke there was a special pasture in the middle of the old hosp grounds..that was then discovered and removed. Must have been some grumpy gardeners after that!
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                                                                                                                          • boy blunder
                                                                                                                            did they burn it there, it would have been good being downwind, I remember at yorks one time they busted a crop,massive fire , I can tell you not much surfing that day , there was a strange smell in the air
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