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Plant ID help please
AmandaBen123
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Can anyone tell me what this is and what it should look likea. I have no idea and don't know if I should be pruning it just now and how to prune it as I don't know what it is! Anit now getting embarrassing lol - please excuse me as I am a beginner and I didn't plant it 
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Have you posted a picture Amanda? Sorry can't see it yet.
If you are having trouble let us know and someone will help.
sorry forgot to post Pics haha not a good start
I think it's a olive bush
That looks like a weeping pear, pyrus salicifolia pendula.
It's an ornamental pear or 'Pyrus'. Don't know the particular cultivar.
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Thanks guys - that's great. I will leave it alone as apparently it only needs selective pruning in winter or early spring - back away with the loppers
The leaves of a pear do look different. I found pictures on the internet with leaves like on your picture and is defined as olive.
Definitely Pyrus salicifolia 'Pendula' - the Weeping Willow-leaved Pear.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/91185/Pendulous-willow-leaved-pear/Details
It's the 'willow-leaved' that threw you off the track Rinus
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
But the fruit is clearly a pear, not an olive
In the sticks near Peterborough