It looks like a very small Pieris - late to be flowering though, and not really the kind of thing that appears out of nowhere, so I could be wrong! Sometimes young small ones are sold in those packs of plants for containers although long term a windowbox wouldn't be big enough for it.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Leaves don’t look quite right for pieris. And as JennyJ said, rather late in the season, all mine finished flowering months ago. And most varieties get huge, a couple of mine are sizeable trees. It does look very familiar though, but can’t place it.
Garden centres often sell packs of 6 mixed small evergreen plants . Gaultheria procumbens is often used in the mix. After the flowers are the red berries.
I seem to remember my mum growing these many years ago when I was little, we called it either Winter Cherry or Christmas Cherry. Perhaps that was just me 😀
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
That's the fellow! I want those! There's a garden somewhere near here that has a huggy clingy plant that looks vaguely like cotoneaster (I assumed it was) over some steep banking and walls and I was going to take a pic for here but of course I can't remember what lane it's on. (I nebby in ALL the gardens as I'm going about). Well done everybody! 🤣
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It does look very familiar though, but can’t place it.
Gaultheria procumbens is often used in the mix.
After the flowers are the red berries.
Very useful groundcover plant
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
There's a garden somewhere near here that has a huggy clingy plant that looks vaguely like cotoneaster (I assumed it was) over some steep banking and walls and I was going to take a pic for here but of course I can't remember what lane it's on. (I nebby in ALL the gardens as I'm going about).
Well done everybody! 🤣