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Plant IDs

gardenman91gardenman91 Posts: 429
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Good evening everyone, I’m wondering if anyone can help me identify these plants please? I believe one is cornus and another is helleborus but I’m not sure what the species is 🤔

Many thanks :smile:


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  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    1. Euonymus.   Maybe Euonymus fortunei.
    2. Helleborus.   Maybe Helleborus argutifolius
    3. Cornus sp....would like to see what flowers /fruits are like
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630

    Your hellebore looks rather like our Helleborus     lividus subsp. corsicus
    Helleborus corsicus.
    Argutifolius is close too.
    I cannot be sure. I think argutifolius is a slightly narrower leaf shape and much taller in stature.
    Our one looks like yours and is shorter, by a fair amount.  Ours is a foot tall  but we garden under large oaks which may stunt growth. The plant as awhole looks chunkier. and paler.
     
    I may be wrong. But if you check both you may find the correct one.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Rubytoo said:

    Your hellebore looks rather like our Helleborus     lividus subsp. corsicus
    Helleborus corsicus.
    Argutifolius is close too.
    I cannot be sure. I think argutifolius is a slightly narrower leaf shape and much taller in stature.
    Our one looks like yours and is shorter, by a fair amount.  Ours is a foot tall  but we garden under large oaks which may stunt growth. The plant as awhole looks chunkier. and paler.
     
    I may be wrong. But if you check both you may find the correct one.
    Helleborus argutifolius syn Helleborus lividus subsp. corsicus 

    They are the same plant.


     https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/8565/Helleborus-argutifolius/Details
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • gardenman91gardenman91 Posts: 429
    Silver surfer said:
    1. Euonymus.   Maybe Euonymus fortunei.
    2. Helleborus.   Maybe Helleborus argutifolius
    3. Cornus sp....would like to see what flowers /fruits are like
    With regards to the cornus, it has either self seeded as a few more plants have popped up. But for the small size of the top growth the root seems to be very thick so I’m thinking it’s a rhizomotous dogwood? 
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,385
    Some cornus spread by suckering, so probably one of those.  Old thread here:

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Agree with @Silver surfer
    Helleborus argutifolius syn Helleborus lividus subsp. corsicus  are the same plant.



    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

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  • gardenman91gardenman91 Posts: 429
    Lovely thanks for the information everyone. I’ll take some photos of the cornus when it’s in flower. Who’s ready for some more plant photos haha. 


  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Top one looks like some kind of ivy
    Middle - bay 
    Bottom laurel - maybe
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • gardenman91gardenman91 Posts: 429
    B3 said:
    Top one looks like some kind of ivy
    Middle - bay 
    Bottom laurel - maybe
    Thanks B3, I forgot to mention that the top photo is in photo 3 as well, it is also a tree but is behind the potential laurel 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That looks like the kind of place you'd find ivy😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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