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What is this shrub? It just appeared

IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
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Is it worth keeping in the border?


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  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    I suspect that is a Cotoneaster shrub. Could be Cotoneaster Bullatus or Rehderi which has slightly larger leaves.
  • amancalledgeorgeamancalledgeorge Posts: 2,736
    Something this size, doesn't just appear ;) 
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  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    Yes it can, a present from the birds.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Maybe but more than one year's growth there.
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  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    I didn’t notice it last year so maybe it was shorter then. It’s got aphids on it, little green bugs and ants farming it.  I must have three of these tall shrubs forming now. I’m more familiar with the small leaf cotoneaster which can also become tree like and has lots of little seedlings I pull out, probably from the berries that drop.
  • ShepherdsBarnShepherdsBarn Posts: 401
    Wayfaring tree (Viburnum Lantana)?
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Cotoneaster leaves are alternate on a branch.
    Viburnum leaves are opposite on the branch.
    To me leaves look alternate...making it Cotoneaster sp.
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  • ShepherdsBarnShepherdsBarn Posts: 401
    😊
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    Thanks, I’ll check the leaves
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