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Your help with a shrub/tree ID, please

FireFire Posts: 19,096
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Any thoughts?



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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Cornus?
     :) 

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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I believe this might be the same type of tree...  It looks similar.






  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    I would guess at Cornus for your first pictures too.
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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Thanks. Do you think the second lot of pics are different?
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited June 2021
    I do (I might be wrong though!). The variegated one might be a Cornus too.
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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That pink flower doesn’t look like a Cornus … Cornus flowers have four petals and are quite flat and in sprays. 

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  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    edited June 2021
    The flower and variegated leaves both remind me of Weigela but agree first photo looks like a Cornus
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  • SueMarySueMary Posts: 8
    It looks very much like the flower on the Weigela Florida Variegata that I have in my garden. I thought Weigela when I first saw it.
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    The first one with dark stems looks like Cornus to me.
    The second one is definitely Weigela florida variegata as @SueMary says.
    I had one, and like yours it had some shoots that reverted to green. If you want to keep the variegation you will need to cut those out. The all green leaves produce much more chlorophyll, so grow more strongly and will eventually take over.
    In my case I decided that the flowers looked much better against plain green, so I used some of the shoots as cuttings and grew myself a couple of new, non-variegated plants :)
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    What about a philadelphus?

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