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Please identify this small evergreen tree

SammymummySammymummy Posts: 202
edited August 2020 in Plants
Hi
Can someone tell me the name of this tree please? It’s in my friend’s garden and I am told it’s evergreen. It’s about 3 metres tall, I’d say.
Many thanks!

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It looks like a  Photinia. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • SammymummySammymummy Posts: 202
    Thanks @Fairygirl, I thought the leaves look like Photinia’s, but I’ve only seen them as wide shrub. Do you think this one is a standard form of Photinia?
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    People just shape them as they see fit. 
    I've never seen the attraction them personally, but many people like them.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited August 2020
    People just shape them as they see fit. 

    See....
    https://www.google.com/search?q=photinia+red+robin+lollipop+trees&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785&sxsrf=ALeKk03sf6lsaa3eJ2HXhMGE-um3h4m-EQ:1598897313086&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj5xoPThMbrAhVRecAKHYDvBkEQ_AUoAnoECA0QBA&biw=1280&bih=578



    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • SammymummySammymummy Posts: 202
    Thank you - I am looking for a small tree for my small garden and thought this tree might fit the bill, being evergreen and not too tall. While googling Photinia tree, I came across ornamental-trees.co.uk and am attracted to a few trees there 😊
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    they always seem to be planted outside new build "showhomes" .
    There was one in our garden when we moved, I cut it down.
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    There's a house near me @Hostafan1, with a narrow, albeit quite long,  border between it and the neighbouring house.  I could see it every day I drove past. They planted a row of standard Photinias there, which deteriorated in our weather fairly rapidly. Not long after - they replaced them with standard Olive trees. 
    I had to laugh. The GC or nursery must have seen them  coming.  :D

    They now have a row of standard roses of some kind. Needless to say, they've survived. I don't know why they didn't just plant a hedge  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • SammymummySammymummy Posts: 202
    Lol, my friend’s house is in a new-ish housing estate.
  • SueAtooSueAtoo Posts: 380
    My photinia is HUGE.
    East Dorset, new (to me) rather neglected garden.
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