The red barked thing looks like one of the coloured bark cornus used for winter colour. You prune it down(stool it) in Spring and then get new shoots,and bark colour for the winter.
The first one looks like one of the honeysuckles ....... and something else that I'm not sure about.
The second one is a cornus - one of the ones with red bark on new growth - you cut them right back in the spring and it grows lots of new stems, and then in the autumn when the leaves fall off you have wonderful coloured stems for the winter.
Ah, thank you all, this is brilliant! Thanks for the pruning tips also, that was the main reason for me identifying plants, so I knew whether to cut them back or leave them be, for the best growth. Cheers!
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I think it'll be fine to carry on with this thread
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
New thread is probably best Jack unless you do a load all at the same time
But since you're here now...storm on!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
LOL Fairygirl
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Okey doke! Thanks. Here's one for you.
Can anyone tell this just from the bark?
Second one (red barkis looks like a Cornus
(not normally any good at this but it looks like the one in my garden)
The red barked thing looks like one of the coloured bark cornus used for winter colour. You prune it down(stool it) in Spring and then get new shoots,and bark colour for the winter.
The first one looks like one of the honeysuckles ....... and something else that I'm not sure about.
The second one is a cornus - one of the ones with red bark on new growth - you cut them right back in the spring and it grows lots of new stems, and then in the autumn when the leaves fall off you have wonderful coloured stems for the winter.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Ah, thank you all, this is brilliant! Thanks for the pruning tips also, that was the main reason for me identifying plants, so I knew whether to cut them back or leave them be, for the best growth. Cheers!