In The Garden: Can anybody help me identify this plant?

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  1. fabrags

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    hello there,

    I am trying to identify the plant in the corner of the garden in front of the privet hedge. If you look at the photograph taken early last year you can see it is the plant right in the left hand corner, with dark green serrated leaves. My brother has been looking after this plant for a few years and it had got quite large. The builders who are repairing the roof, ripped it out yesterday and flung it in a corner in front of the heating ducts and he is devastated. I have tried to replant it and hope it will recover but i am not too hopeful. it has a rhizome like root base and the stems are hollow, the leaves are serrated and large and quite glossy. Anybody know what it is would be much appreciated.

    Thanks in advance
    Fabrags
     

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    lorax Rising Contributor 10 Years

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    Rhus?
     
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    ariani Active Member 10 Years

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    It looks arundo sp and it must have rhizomas in the ground. If does not have rhizomas there is no arundo.
     
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    Thank you, howvere I do not think it is arundo, the dark green plant in the corner behind the chair facing the camera. My brother seems to think it is a geranium??
     
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    Silver surfer Generous Contributor 10 Years

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    togata57 Generous Contributor 10 Years

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    The plant at center of photo, behind the chair facing camera, looks like an Astilbe to me. Plant in pot on table is a geranium.
     
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    It does look a little like an astilbe except is has much larger leaves, does not flower and has a drooping like leaves all coming from a central trunk.
     
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    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    I also think it is a geranium. When it flowers there will be a large head of them above the leaves.
     
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    Thanks, for that.
     
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    Silver surfer Generous Contributor 10 Years

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    Another possibility is Geranium palmatum, it is another one that has big leaves and is evergreen through the winter, flowering then in the summer, as Ron describes.
     

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    Ron B Paragon of Plants 10 Years

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    On another subject the hedge is browning out in the lower portion because the top is not being cut to be narrower than the bottom. It needs to be tapered back so that full light reaches all the way down.
     

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