Forum home› Plants
This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.

Plant Identification

KeithsterKeithster Posts: 29
in Plants
Could anyone identify this plant please.  I thought it was a cotoneaster, but it has never flowered or produced any berries.  I pruned it down to the ground and even thought I had dug it up  a couple of years ago, but it's back and growing vigorously.  Whilst I'm happy to have an evergreen in the garden, it does take up a lot of space and it would be useful to ID it so that I know whether it will ever flower or be attractive to wildlife.  Thank you in advance. 

Posts

  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    It looks like box. Cotoneaster leaves are alternate on the stem, I think. Box (just looked at mine) are opposite.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • AthelasAthelas Posts: 946
    edited May 2022
    Lonicera nitida? https://www.hedgesdirect.co.uk/acatalog/lonicera_nitida_.html
    Cambridgeshire, UK
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited May 2022
    Definitely Lonicera...common name Honeysuckle.
    Flowers are tiny.

    Top .........Lonicera nitida.
    Bottom... Lonicera pileata.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Lonicera nitida is a good plant for a dwarf hedge - but a bit boring IMO as a free-standing bush.
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    It does flower, but the flowers are very small. Berries to follow. Very useful as a foil to other plants.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    Difficult to get rid of though, as I am discovering one year after removing three of these.
  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    Popular with nesting birds here, dunnocks especially.
Sign In or Register to comment.