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Plant ID Please....

steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
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1) The first is a clematis I think, but I don't know which one - any ideas?

2) The second is a shrub - it stands a couple of metres plus and I think has yellow flowers in spring. Any ideas as to what it is and if it can be pruned back hard?

3) This shrub has recently been hacked by me - it's growing into the shrub above - hence the pruning question. I'd like to cut both 2 and 3 right back. Again, I think this had yellow flowers in spring. It has very sharp 'thorns' down the stems and leaves change from purple'ish to green. It's up over 2.5 metres - 3 metres.


4) Finally - I think this is one shrub. It seems to have both plain green and variegated leaves. It has very attractive 'half orange half white' 'thing's that appear in late summer that look like berries. It stands about a metre plus high.

Thanks all.

Sunny and warm again down here. No real rain for ages. We had grey and drizzle for a few days but I don't think we've had more than three or four  inches since the end of March.
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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    I think your clematis is 'purpurea plena elegans'.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Thank you both.

    The clematis looks spot on. I'll check the RHS site for the pruning advice on the other shrubs.

    Thanks again.


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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2020
    We grow Clem. purpurea plena elegans. A gorgeous thing and very easy. Cut it right down to about 12-18” in March and give it some clem feed. Keep the soil moist and stand well back. 😃 

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





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Thanks - Where that one is growing, I have two stems - one at either end of a 6ft trellis - so I thought my wife had planted two different types of clematis as I thought that the photo above showed two different flower types....until I realised they were from the same 'bit'. I need to 'track and trace' a stem to see what each is producing - as we do have other clematis types elsewhere.
    I think I'll take a cutting from the purpurea and add it to the other end of another trellis that has virginia creeper on it - I think that'll give a nice mix and I like playing.

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  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    The green on the euonymus needs removing or the whole plant may revert.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Thanks - the plant is already about 50-50.

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  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    I have another 'shrub' - this one was cut back a couple of years ago (not by me I would add!) and has been growing back fine. This year it had a couple of black birds nesting in it I think and at the same time had a whole branch turn brown. I didn't want to do anything to it at that point for fear of disturbing the birds. I wasn't sure anyway whether the brown branch was just caused by winds over winter/spring damaging it. Now I hav yellow leaves appearing all over the thing - all tending to be below the tip growth. The good leaves - apart from another branch that has gone brown (again unsure whether that is wind related as we had some string winds recently), the majority of the leaves seem fine. We have been low on rain down here, but I have been watering it. Any ideas as to what the thing is (it stands over 2m tall and has white flowers in spring I think) and what (if anything) may be wrong with it.

    Thanks in advance....
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  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    It's a Laurustinas, but I don't know what the problem is!
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Thank you. So it's a viburnum? How on earth can anyone tell the difference between these things? - they all look the same to me (well, not quite)!
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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    If you asked me nicely, I would come and have a look, probably name all bar the clematis type.  Have got an appointment with my hair dresser (opposite you!!) booked 26th June, she was booked till Sept, is fitting me in 14th August, you have probably seen me about, the woman with the wild (at the moment silvery/lical) hair
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