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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  August 2018 edited August 2018

  Garden spider (Araneus diadematus) The females are larger than the males.
  

  (No idea about the shrubs)
  

   No idea why that went large
  

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• pitter-patter Posts: 2,429

  August 2018

  Thank you, Fidgetbones. Diadematus... crowned... what a nice name!

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• Borderline Posts: 4,700

  August 2018

  The first shrub may need a more closer photo to be sure, but looks like a Euonymus Japonicus shrub. 
  
  Second shrub could be a Forsythia shrub.

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• pitter-patter Posts: 2,429

  August 2018

  Thank you, Borderline. I’ll take a close up photo tomorrow. I seem to remember that the second shrub had small whitish flowers in late winter (?), before the leaves were budding.

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• Borderline Posts: 4,700

  August 2018

  Pitter-patter, thanks for more information. I'm now wondering whether your second shrub might be a Salix Caprea. 

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  August 2018 edited August 2018

  1.Agree with Borderline.
   Euonymus.......one with small leaves and a yellow variegation...such as Euonymus japonicus microphylla aureovariegatus.
  
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=Euonymus+japonicus+'MICROPHYLLUS+AUREOVARIEGATUS'&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjFvOSR6YLdAhWNJ1AKHQNJC7IQ_AUICygC&biw=1920&bih=943#imgrc=dUEnRAhYgaba-M:
  
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  Opposite leaves, red twigs,small whitish flowers in late winter..
  Suggests a shrubby winter flowering Honeysuckle.
  Maybe one such as Lonicera purpusii.
  
  https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b&biw=1920&bih=943&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=LHV-W5qWMYa00gWMy7m4Cw&q=lonicera+purpusii+leaves&oq=lonicera+purpusii+leaves&gs_l=img.12...7959.9935.0.11633.7.7.0.0.0.0.86.476.7.7.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.1.85...0j0i30k1j0i8i30k1j0i24k1.0.F7FFbhwbHSU#imgrc=fkNxT-UbtEtfXM:
  
  It is definitely not Salix caprea as this has alternate leaves.
  
  https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b&biw=1920&bih=943&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=sHZ-W9S1K8rSwQLP8JCQDQ&q=salix+caprea+leaves&oq=salix+caprea+leaves+&gs_l=img.1.0.0i30k1.28786.30895.0.32365.8.5.0.3.3.0.91.377.5.5.0....0...1c.1.64.img..0.8.387...0j0i67k1j0i8i30k1.0.EEE2bYzetGQ#imgrc=HHU109KAb1-VeM:
  
  Equally Forsythia can be ruled out...the bark is very different in Forsythia.
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=forsythia+bark&client=firefox-b&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjH8Oic6ILdAhUJJVAKHXzABYoQ_AUICigB&biw=1920&bih=943#imgrc=a0aFEf-1aut6CM:
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  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• pitter-patter Posts: 2,429

  August 2018

  Thank you, Silver Surfer. I didn’t manage to take a photo of the first shrub as I’m away from home. I’ve googled Euonymus and it’s probably it. 
  
  The second shrub has opposite leaves in threes as well as twos. It might be better to wait until it blooms again.
  
  
  

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• pitter-patter Posts: 2,429

  August 2018

  The second one might just be Lonicera, I seem to remember a nice scent as well. Thank you again.

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• pitter-patter Posts: 2,429

  December 2018

  It is a Lonicera. The smell is just wonderful. Thank you again.
  
  

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