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Another mystery pair

Stephanie newish gardenerStephanie newish gardener Posts: 516
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Me again :) 
I feel I know what both of these are, but can't for the life of me recall their names....



Grateful as ever for the collective wisdom  :) 
No longer newish but can't think of a new name so will remain forever newish.  B) 

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  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    I'm not great at identifying things, but the top one could be euonymus, and the second a cotoneaster 🤔
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I think that too :)

    Billericay - Essex

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  • Stephanie newish gardenerStephanie newish gardener Posts: 516
    We have a cotoneaster but it isn't like that one. I'll have to Google the varieties
    No longer newish but can't think of a new name so will remain forever newish.  B) 

  • JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 256
    The top one is Euonymous. Not sure what the bottom one is though I'm afraid.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    there are so many Cotoneasters, it can be difficult to work out which one you've got. A few more photos showing the shape and height of the plant might help.
    The Euonymus is one of the E. fortunei cultivars. 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I agree with @nutcutlet.
    I think the cotoneaster is the one I have, but I can't remember what it is!
    The care is the same for them all though, and with the euonymus too. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Stephanie newish gardenerStephanie newish gardener Posts: 516
    I had a quick Google and we do indeed have two quite different cotoneasters - the one above has longer leaves than the other one, and I think the flowers are quite different. 
    Along with the vast majority of shrubs in this garden, that cotoneaster is ancient, with thick and twisted branches behind the newer growth. I don't think any of them were ever pruned, but sadly I now need to do major surgery on a few shrubs because they are way too big for the space they occupy. At least if I know what they are I can work out the best time to do remedial work on them.
    No longer newish but can't think of a new name so will remain forever newish.  B) 

  • JAYJARDINJAYJARDIN Posts: 256
    I sympathize, we have inherited a garden where nothing has been pruned for years and all I have done since April is prune things that have not been touched for years or reprune some one else's bad pruning. Sigh! I'll get to the end of it eventually and the happy thought is that I'll never have to go through this again ! Oh and then I could mention how everything has been planted in the wrong place or too close to something else !
  • Stephanie newish gardenerStephanie newish gardener Posts: 516
    @JAYJARDIN the previous owner was a really keen gardener, but I'm now realising he knew very little about pruning. There's a very straggly philadelphus in the garden, which, according to the neighbour, was cut back to the ground every year after it flowered.
    There are loads of huge buddleias that look like they have periodically been cut back down when years and years old, and as for the flowering currant that's about 30' wide and 20' tall........swamping the beautiful fuchsia that is also about 20' wide and 20' tall and creaking under its own weight.....
    Sadly had to cut some branches off the fuchsia today, as well as an ancient escallonia. They were overgrowing the path down to our parkland and we need access to move some firewood. Not the best time to hack into either of them, but they will both be fine, and in due course, with the right care, will be glorious in a more controlled fashion! 
    No longer newish but can't think of a new name so will remain forever newish.  B) 

  • Stephanie newish gardenerStephanie newish gardener Posts: 516
    This is a wider pic of the cotoneaster 

    No longer newish but can't think of a new name so will remain forever newish.  B) 

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