I don't know what it is, but am glad to find another plant rescue person! I've rescued several plants from someone else's garbage. I'm glad this one has recovered.

Your answer is hiding right in the picture in plain site. Look at the photo and locate the center of the trunks. Right at the 3:00 position, the first branch in the image hovering over the trunks has a tiny blossom spike emerging. It is some kind of Hydrangea paniculata cultivar. Variety, well, that will have to wait until you have some full-sized blossoms to look it, you usually ID that by the shape of the blossom head and by what colors it turns as it ages.

Nice rescue, it's obviously thriving under your care. Hydrangeas are fast growers, by next year it could be six feet tall and loaded with blooms. Just be sure to keep it really well watered in the heat, I hear it's going to be about 100 in Chicago today.

Yes, most of my plants are rescues, usually I dig them out or they get cut down/trashed. But I'm running out of room....

Den, good eye! I tried to capture the small blossom spike. I'm still not knowledgeable enough to know how to tell the type just by that.

I'm surprised it is doing so well, as it was lying in the sun on a driveway with no protection or soil. The only credit I get is for putting it in the ground and watering it right away when I got it home. Now I water it about every other day, and it's in a good area with lots of sun.

Now if the others stay alive....it was only 97 today, should be 100 tomorrow, and that's in Chicago, I'm 50 miles west in the fields.

vince

Watch with rescues that you don't bring a pest or disease problem, like root rot (water molds) or a root pest like nematodes or grubs. Something somebody tossed in particular might have been gotten ridden of in the first place because something wasn't right with it.