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Can anyone identify this shrub/plant thankyou :) Two photos supplied
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That looks to me like elder (Sambucus) that has been coppiced and what you have there is one year old growth.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can we have an in focus pic of leaves with a bit of stem? I'm thinking either elder or buddleja.
Elder smells horrible Paul, scrape a bit or rub the leaves and see what it smells like
In the sticks near Peterborough
I thought perhaps a spiraea but I just didn't know. It is 100 not a buddleija and i doubt an elder as I know both of them and the sambucus comes out in purple leaves (I thought) so I really do know what it is......oh I wish I could have one of you experts come along to view it and tell me
I tried to get close with my Iphone but it just will not take a close up with good images....its very frustrating....
Ok nutcutlet I will try that but I can usually identify elder
My elder is the wild sort and the leaves are much more advanced than that already.
Could it be a syringa?
They don't look like elder leaves emerging to me Fidget.
Ryan, there's Syringa vulgaris etc which I know as lilacs
Then there's syringa, which is what some people call philadelphus.
If you mean philadelphus I think it's a possibility
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi Ryan, no its 100% not a lilac
No its not Philadelphus either nutcutlet as I have seen many of them and its not it...ah its annoying