Hi, I have some more native plants that the neighbor dug up. There are three plants with the order being the first plant ( 3 pictures) second plant (2 pictures) third plant (1 picture). The first plant looks like it has maple like leaves, though I don't think it's a maple? It's the size of a small shrub, I think native. I believe the second is a tree? It is very large, and seems to have wierd green cresents that surroudn where the leaf stem is attached to the bark. I have no room for this plant, and so if anyone is interested (after it's been IDed) they're welcome to take them--there are two of them. I live in burnaby. The last shrub is flowering. The flowers look like snowberry flowers, but the leaves look too big and out of shape from what I think are snowberry leaves? Perhaps its Symphoricarpos albus? I think that the western snowberry (Symphoricarpos occidentalis) that I've seen growing around here looks like it has smaller rounded leaves? Help?
Maybe Ribes rubrum, which gets confused with R. sanguineum, included in revegetation etc. plantings down here rather often. After that probably Salix lucida lasiandra, this one may not make the move anyway. And I see Symphoricarpos, likely S. albus. Whenever a foreign species such as R. rubrum gets mixed into what are supposed to be native plantings then you will not be able to match everything present with the local flora. Other mistakes I see frequently here are obvious Salix purpurea, probable Cornus alba and what is liable to be Rosa woodsii.
Thanks Ron! I think the city planted that one (Ribes rubrum) as well as Nootka Rose and Snowberry..I'll keep it and wait until next spring to see what kind of flowers and fruit it has and then upload a photo to make sure^^ I'm sure somebody will want it, but not for my (in progress) native plant garden. The roots of the Salix were cut really short..it probably won't make it unless I heavily shear it now??=(
Top-pruning at planting time is of no benefit to the health of trees and shrubs, which use energy provided by tops to grow new roots. And it is too late to try and reduce water loss through the leaves, which should have been picked off before digging if this was to be attempted.
