ID but maybe a difficult one?
Couple of weeks ago I did a tidy up aiming to dig out perennials, dig in manure and the transplant them. Took 3 days but got it all done (it's a very small garden). But, I'm left with two plants which I can't identify and having looked at photos of the garden last year - I can't see them or identify them.
For the moment, as I seem to have no space left to plant them in, I have them sitting in buckets with just some water at the roots. They look a bit like fuchsia - but I don't recall having little fuchsia bushes. They're not tiny and they look shrubby - but I just cannnot find them in any photographs.
Can anyone recognise what they might be from a photo of the stage they are at now? I'm very tempted to bin them but I hate wasting plants. I'm at that life stage now where I seem to be forgetting the names of things far too often. I don't even want to pot them up in case they're something for ericaceous -though again I just can't remember. If they're fuchsia then I can just pot them in multi-p Innes but I'm hesitating hoping my brain will have a sudden flash of recognition - but it's been quite a few days now and the lightbulb hasn't come on.
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Not saying it is, but looks similar to my young philadelphus belle etoile. Could it be a Philly?
My other thought was hydrangea, but think the leaves are too narrow.
I agree Andy - it does have a look of Philadephus about it.
I'd pot it up and nurture it and see what happens
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
ditto to philly too.
I'd agree Philadelphus.
If you want to keep them get those roots covered with soil/compost soon
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yay I got one right!
In the sticks near Peterborough
Drumroll for Andy.....
Looked up my plant list for 3 years ago and 2 x Hydrangea 'Limelight' seem to have gone AWOL.
I think these two mystery plants must be them. A neighbour sprayed something over the fence last year and I now remember their leaves turned brown and I chopped them to ground level, soaked them with buckets of water and forgot about them as plants in front of them were tallish and obscured them as they never came into growth. Which is why they don't appear in any of my last year's garden photos - because when they ARE in growth they are very tall.
I'm not sure I was really fond of them - which I hate to admit. I think I subconsciously made myself forget them!!!! I'll put them in tubs and see if this is the answer to the mystery. I agree the leaves don't look typically hydrangea - but as there are two of them and I've never had a Philadelphus - I think these have to be the 'Limelight's.
Thanks so much for the responses everyone. Will be interesting to see if they turn out as expected.