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Plant Indentification
Lawnmower Chris
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Am never sure when or how hard to prune this type of plant.
Not even sure of its name.........any ideas people?
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I don't know what it is but it looks as though cutting some of the oldest stems out right back to the base would be a good start.
Resist cutting all the stems shorter as has happened here in the past. You end up with a tangled mass.
What are the flowers like?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi nutcutlet. My pictures aren't great to obtain any advice, apologies everyone, but if you can enlarge the bottom pic, there are some faded flowers bottom right.
Reminds me of my Spirea but without seeing the leaves I am cannot say for sure.
Were they pink?
In the sticks near Peterborough
There were so few, I couldn't even tell you.
I have enlarged to photo but can't spot the flowers you spoke of. I think you may have to post another picture when the leaves appear to get an identification. Meanwhile I would take Nutcutlet's advice and take out some of the older stems to open up the centre of the bush a bit.
Will do, thanks everyone. Didn't give you much to work with did I ......apologies.
Could i throw one of the shrub honeysuckles into the mix! Lonicera purpusii or Lonicera fragratissima. Also maybe a Corylopsis?
All 3 plants are winter/spring flowering, so if you could wait a few weeks to see if those are flower buds, would help I.D. the plant.
If there've only been a few flowers it's possible that it flowers on old wood and has been pruned at the wrong time of year so there's not been enough old wood to produce many flowers.
I'd do as Nut suggests and thin the centre of the plant from the base, but not shorten any of the other growth then there'll be some older wood left to form flowers.
Then give it a sprinkling of Fish Blood and Bone to perk it up.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.