need name for a certain flowering bush?

Question

There's a bush on my property that i want to get cuttings of before i move and I want to know the name of it aswell. A bloom is 5 pink leaves with the top 3 having some wierd dark red "tattoing" on them, and little "feelers" coming out of the center of the bud. It's a fairly leafy plant aswell, but this one has grown long stems before if makes new stems so i feel it could grow more compact with pruning. I'm not a gardener though, but i'd like to make two new plants and try to keep them compact. If you can't tell what they are by the description is there a website with like a database of flowers/bushes?

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no that one isn't even close. I found a site with a database and from comparison it looks almost exactly like a Weigela Pink Poppet. From looking at the weigelas i'm assuming that's it's family because most look exactly like it, but have one characteristic that doesn't match. The thing about pink poppets are the actual flower is longer or more funnel shaped and mine is a shorter flower. also i made a mistake in that it's not 5 individual flowers from the bud it grows as one group then appears to split into 5 individual petals. the tattoing i referd to ONLY occurs fully on the very top petal and on the two adjacent petals it only occurs on the sides touching the top petal. The tatooing is symetrical and is like little tiny blotches of various ovalish shapes to curved and even U shaped designs. The actual leaves are no bigger than an inch/1.5 and have an oval shape with pointed end and most have a dull goldish "specling"

ehh. meant tatooing ISN"T symetrical. also the petals are very thin and frilly around the outer edgesand the bottom two have no tatooing and are just the color of the other petals minus the tatoos.

damnit... state is mississippi but it doesn't seem to be native as you don't seem the on the side of the road or anything like that, i could be wrong though

Answer 1

It sounds like it could be th Hakura Nishki Willow. Check out these pictures:
http://arrowheadalpines.com/red_gallery/pages/Salix%20integra%20%27Hakura%20Nishiki%27.htm

http://www.summerwindsmo.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=plants.plantDetail&plant_id=1440

Further info that would be helpful to identify your bush would be location(state), leaf arrangement and leaf margin. If you have no clue what I am talking about take a look at this picture:
http://www.borealforest.org/images/leaf1.jpg
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I asked location just to know your hardiness zone, you are zone 8-9. I am mostly familiar with zone 7 and below, but I might still be able to help if you want to take a digital pic or scan a cutting off it and email it to me. If you want to try that just email me through my profile and I will email back my addy so you can attach a pic. Then neither one of us would have to publish our e-mail addresses for the world to see.

I might never be able to tell you what it is even if I saw it in real life. I know a great deal of plants for our zone and many for others but there are still hundreds of thousands that I don't know. Your best bet would be to take a cutting to a garden center/nursery near to you and have them ID it, just make sure to cut it right before you go, wrapping the cut with wet paper towel.

Seems that what's most important to you is cloning a baby plant to bring with you. This is not a very easy task for a woody shrub. You could try to take a bunch of cuttings, remove the leaves from the the cut... go up as many nodes as will be underwater and put them in a vase. If you have no results within a few weeks. This is the novice method, and works sometimes and sometimes they just rot and don't ever send out roots. If you are willing to do a little reading you can increase your chances of success. This link tells of a better method:

http://www.uvm.edu/pss/ppp/pubs/oh5cuts.html

Layering is not immediately portable and I don't know when you intend to move, but it is a VERY successful method. Some plants can take a full year to propagate this way, but it is almost fool proof. I did it with Wisteria and it took about two months.

Air Layering:

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/extension/ornamentals/airlayer/airlayer.html

Soil Layering:

http://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profiles0602/layering.asp

Answer 2

sounds like candy Autumn Clematis. in spite of if that's, that's not what's misguided with the canines. Or fairly, that's not good in the event that they consume it, besides the fact that it form of feels maximum unlikely that the canines have been residing in close proximity to it and abruptly, in one day, all of them verify to consume it. None of my canines have ever shown an interest in it.

Answer 3

have you tried hgtv.com? They have tons of pics on trees, bushes & flowers. They may have yours.