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What plant is this?

starryskystarrysky Posts: 24
in Problem solving
Hello gardeners! I took a picture of a shrub in my garden when we moved in but had a few different suggestions on what it could be. It is now in bloom so I thought I would post a picture again to see if anyone can identify it!

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  • jaffacakesjaffacakes Posts: 434
    It really looks like a flowering dogwood or is it too early or the blooms?


  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That doesn't look like any dogwood I have grown.  Pretty flowers tho.

    I think you need @Nutcutlet or @Dovefromabove to help.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • PerkiPerki Posts: 2,527
    edited March 2019
    I am on my phone so screen a bit small but at first glance it looks like a prunus spinosa ( blackthorn ) 
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    I agree - spines are visible on the 1st photo if you zoom in.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Blackthorn, loads of it out now, our country lanes are full of it, and we have one blooming in our garden. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I’d go with a prunus of some sort ... not entirely convinced by blackthorn but it’s one of that family.

    @nutcutlet will know ...

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • starryskystarrysky Posts: 24
    Thanks all! What a mystery! I am not sure about it being a blackthorn as have harvested sloes from them before but did not see any on this plant last year... I may be wrong though!  

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