Here's one that does flower (and berry) Helen421 (the shrub to the left of the pic), you'll notice it's half the size of an old apple tree and gets as wide (there's a shed behind that hedge).
Be careful where you put it.
I was tempted to pull it out but as always, as soon as I thought this, it looked beautiful. It has hollow stems like bamboo and drips with "pheasant" berries late in the year when a lot of stuff is over. It's semi-evergreen but looks pretty scruffy in deep winter.
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Leycesteria formosa. It seeds around and maybe not what your mum planted in the pot
In the sticks near Peterborough
The leaves are far to thin compared with other pictures of that plant & it never flowers.
i thought it might be from the bamboo family?
bamboo is in the grasses family, that's not a grass.
Someone else will turn up soon to ID it for you
In the sticks near Peterborough
I too concur 100% with leycesteria
Of course it's leycesteria. I just don't do forum arguing
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you everyone- I bow down to your knowledge - thank you so much xxx
Be careful where you put it.
I was tempted to pull it out but as always, as soon as I thought this, it looked beautiful. It has hollow stems like bamboo and drips with "pheasant" berries late in the year when a lot of stuff is over. It's semi-evergreen but looks pretty scruffy in deep winter.
For now, she's staying!
Thank you Cloggie, I will place wisely xxx