Hmm... if you believe everything you read about superfoods, you'd have a rather strange diet... - plus the "experts" seem to change their minds every five minutes about what we should be eating!
I go with my grandmother. She lived to be 108, and based her diet on the principle that "a little of what you fancy does you good".
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Many thanks everyone for all your input. Liriodendron and nutcutlet, it seems to be Goji berry all right. Here's a photo in which I hope you can see the thorns, Wayside. I'm not sure how it is that I never noticed berries on it over the years - perhaps because it's in an out of the way spot and the birds eat them before I get to see them. As I say, there are a few of these bushes around the boundaries of the garden but this is the only one that amounts to anything - the others are struggling under trees. Knowing what they are now, I shall have to keep them and in future I'll be keeping an eye out for the berries with their apparent wonder properties!
Glad you've found out what it was. Hope I didn't lead you up the garden path! My laptop shows the leaves in the first photo more silvery than they probably are and I couldn't the flowers clearly and I didn't know it's 9 feet tall! My Teucrium died so I couldn't check about the thorns.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Wayside, I'm not sure how good of a human barrier it would make. It doesn't seem very dense and the thorns are quite bendy. After taking the original photo I chopped it back without gloves on and received no injuries to my hands and arms unlike when I had to cut hawthorn bushes that used to be here.
Busy-Lizzie - you are right - from a distance the leaves do have a silvery or grey-green look and that is one of the shrub's attractions I think. Yes, I forgot to mention originally how tall it is! You didn't lead me up the garden path at all! It was you who started the ball rolling so thanks indeed for that.
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Just luck, Wayside!!
Hmm... if you believe everything you read about superfoods, you'd have a rather strange diet...
- plus the "experts" seem to change their minds every five minutes about what we should be eating!
I go with my grandmother. She lived to be 108, and based her diet on the principle that "a little of what you fancy does you good".
Lycium barbarum, Goji berry, boxthorn. looks promising.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Many thanks everyone for all your input. Liriodendron and nutcutlet, it seems to be Goji berry all right. Here's a photo in which I hope you can see the thorns, Wayside. I'm not sure how it is that I never noticed berries on it over the years - perhaps because it's in an out of the way spot and the birds eat them before I get to see them. As I say, there are a few of these bushes around the boundaries of the garden but this is the only one that amounts to anything - the others are struggling under trees. Knowing what they are now, I shall have to keep them and in future I'll be keeping an eye out for the berries with their apparent wonder properties!
How barb like are they?
Do they make a good human barrier?
I say that as I planted wild pear as a bit of a barrier. And I've already fell victim to it. So can confirm that wild pear is semi-lethal!
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Glad you've found out what it was. Hope I didn't lead you up the garden path! My laptop shows the leaves in the first photo more silvery than they probably are and I couldn't the flowers clearly and I didn't know it's 9 feet tall! My Teucrium died so I couldn't check about the thorns.
Wayside, I'm not sure how good of a human barrier it would make. It doesn't seem very dense and the thorns are quite bendy. After taking the original photo I chopped it back without gloves on and received no injuries to my hands and arms unlike when I had to cut hawthorn bushes that used to be here.
Busy-Lizzie - you are right - from a distance the leaves do have a silvery or grey-green look and that is one of the shrub's attractions I think. Yes, I forgot to mention originally how tall it is! You didn't lead me up the garden path at all! It was you who started the ball rolling so thanks indeed for that.