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hello. A friend has just moved into a new house and wants to know what shrubs she has so she can look after them. I'm not a shrub person. Are you able to help
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This one (above)is driving me mad, I know it just can't remember it's name.
Thank you i appreciate your help time for me to learn my shrubs...
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Hi Peanuts. The one driving you mad is possibly winter flowering jasmine? Second picture down looks like two shrubs. Photinia with the red, emerging leaves and Skimmia. 10th picture looks like an Euonymus. Sorry about the others but someone will be along who knows them all.
1,3 and 9 look like Cistus
I think Ladybird is right re 2
4, a spiraea
I'll have a look at the rest later
In the sticks near Peterborough
5 &6 could be Portugal Laurel
10 a pittosporum
In the sticks near Peterborough
more pics would help with confirmation and the ones we haven't done yet
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you for these, I'll let her know and do some research for her on what she needs to do with them.
I've got a Pittosporum like the one in picture 10, so your post prompted me to think I should find out how to look after it
There are lots of pittosporums, but it's this one https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/134268/Pittosporum-tenuifolium-Elizabeth-(m-v)/Details?returnurl=/plants/search-results?form-mode=false&query=pittosporum&aliaspath=%2fplants%2fsearch-results
It's in pruning group 1 which basically means you can leave them to their own devices and give them a trim when you fancy it. It's easy to look after (which is why we have it). Last year ours had aphids but they were easily treated.
Here's a more thorough guide to the pruning group, which will be useful when you've identified the other shrubs' pruning groups:
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=954