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Identify shrub

JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 256
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Please can anyone help to ID this shrub ?
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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Currant, probably Ribes sanguineum, Flowering Currant


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Flowering Currant??
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    It looks a bit like a blackcurrant bush to me.
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 256
    Ooh thanks, that sounds good. Are the fruits edible ?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    They won’t kill you, but they’re sparse and not really pleasant like their culinary cousins … and theyre a valuable good source for the birds 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 256
    Good! There were no birds in the garden when we moved into the house a few weeks ago, we put up feeders and now have a regular crew of a robin, coal tits, a blue tit or two, blackbird and a wood pigeon !
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The blackbird will love the currants. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 256
    He'll get fat- I fed him sultanas earlier !
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    He’ll cope 😉 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    By the way, when it’s really really cold blackbirds love porridge oats sprinkled on the ground. 
    We buy some of the very cheap ones and save them for when the frosts and snow arrives. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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