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Plant ID please.

steviec92853steviec92853 Posts: 2
edited September 2023 in Plants
Hi I have just moved into a new house and would like to ID this plant/bush at the front. When I came to view the house, the bush was brown, but with the leaves still attached. When we eventually moved in, we found a the leaves had turned back to green. A couple of people have told me that some bushes don't drop their leaves and do turn brown for winter, but return to Green during spring and summer. 

Firstly, can anyone identify what the name of this bush is? And secondly, is there any way of keeping the leaves green all year round?


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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited September 2023
    I think that's beech. When it's pruned as a hedge it retains it's copper-brown leaves for the winter until the new leaves come through in the spring. It's not the old leaves turning from brown back to green.
    See https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/beech/growing-guide for more info. and how to look after it.
    You can't keep it green all year round (it's not evergreen) but if pruned properly it retains the old leaves all winter providing screening and seasonal interest/variation.
    It looks like a fine, well-kept hedge :)
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Agree, it is Beech. it is not possible to keep it green all year.
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  • steviec92853steviec92853 Posts: 2
    That's excellent. Thank you all. 
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @steviec92853 Can look just as lovely in the winter with it's browned leaves. A lovely hedge.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    A marvellous hedge … I prefer to think of the winter colour as ‘golden bronze’ rather than ‘brown’ . 😎 

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





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