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Plant ID please.
Hello All!
Hope everyone is well.
This was a plant outside my old house, I just found a picture of it. It was a vigorous grower. These flowers appeared in spring, followed by orange berries. Now the flowers to me look like Pyracantha, when I've looked them up. The berries also.
The thing is, when I read up on Pyracantha, they all say that the berries come in autumn, but as I've said, they came straight after the flowers and gone by mid summer. Also I'm pretty sure this wasn't evergreen. Any ideas?
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Looks like pyracantha to me - the berries come straight after the flowers but usually colour up towards the autumn - sometimes the birds get them first - I've seen pigeons taking the unripe berries in midsummer.
Are you sure it wasn't evergreen?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I agree with pyracantha. Those big thorns give it away. The birds tend to go for the berries as soon as they appear, woodpigeons are the greediest. Red berries tend to get left till last for some reason.
Hello Dove!
Thanks for the response. You know now I'm doubting myself, I maybe just thought it wasn't evergreen, but looking at the pictures the leaves are already on when it flowered. The wood pigeons were eating the berries also, so that's probably why there weren't any in autumn.
Thanks Dove. Are there different types of Pyracantha? I want one like this for my garden.
Hi Jack
The main difference is the different coloured berries - have a look at this site - it has some good ones http://www.burncoose.co.uk/site/plants.cfm?pl_id=3520
A great wildlife shrub
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thanks Dove. I will check them out.
Thanks also Gardenmaiden, sorry your post wasn't showing when I replied before.