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ID for young shrub, please.
I 'rescued' this young shrub from a pound store. As many people on this forum know, they don't look after their plants and it's always best to buy them when they are first stocked.
I have a habit of trying to revive dying plants from these shops because I can't stand to see the waste. This plant was an example and it was in a poor state with white shoots from the lack of light.
Anyway, it's now doing very well in the back garden but I forgot to label it. Anyone recognise it?
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Looks like snowberry to me.
Used as hedging around these parts but throws up suckers left right and centre!
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Yes snowberry. Used to be used in woodlands as pheasant cover. Suckers and spreads.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The leaves are very different Plant Pauper. My guess is that it's Philadelphus, I'm hoping that someone will confirm that.
I don't think it's either. Looks like one of the shrubby honeysuckles.
I'd say Lonicera (honeysuckle) as well
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In the sticks near Peterborough
It's definitely not Snowberry because Poundland always stock the same plants, Escallonnia, Philadelphus etc. and I've never seen Snowberry there.
More importantly from your photo' and other photo's I've quickly googled, the leaves on my plant are totally different. Snowberrry leaves are more ovoid than my plant, and have Also, they seem to have darker, waxier-looking leaves, and indentations on the lower leaf edge nearest the stem.
Honeysuckle is definitely a possibility as this is always stocked at Poundland. The only reason I think it might not be is that having had a very bad experience with a beautiful honeysuckle that was infested with honeysuckle aphids, it's unlikely I would have bought another.
If no one's able to confirm what it is I'll report back once it gets bigger/produces some flowers. Thanks to all who have replied.
Sorry soulboy I'm obsessed with snowberry and earwigs.
Hopefully it is philadelphus. That would definitely be a result.....but nut says honeysuckle.....
The reason I thought it honeysuckle, was it looks like one I bought cheap, planted it ,lost the label, and for two years it has looked like that. This year it seems to have got into its stride, lots of twining shoots for the first time, and today it has pairs of scented white flowers, so I think mine is Lonicera japonica. It has much less showy flowers than the Graham Thomas I have on the pergola.