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Plant ID please?

mjd2000mjd2000 Posts: 87
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Hi - does anyone recognise this pretty, variegated shrub please? About 2m tall. It looks a bit like an elder. It's just finished flowering, but I found one spray still in flower for the photo. Thank you very much!

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  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    Possibly a variegtaed Viburnum tinus Bewley's Varigated. Pure guess work though.

  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698

    My first thought was a variegated ground elder - then I read 'shrub - 2m tall'. It must be a variegated Sambucus - Sambucus nigra - 'Variegata'.

    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700

    It looks like Variegated Dogwood. Cornus Alba 'Elegantissima'. What is the stem colour?

    Last edited: 25 May 2017 15:43:52

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Sambucus nigra 'Variegata' ...

    http://www.findmeplants.co.uk/plant-sambucus-nigra-1082.aspx 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    Oh WillDB ... didn't see you there image

    ....... but Snap! anyway .......... I think we're right image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • mjd2000mjd2000 Posts: 87

    Thank you all! Yes, I think it's the Sambucus nigra ''variegata' - I thought it was an elder but I didn't realise they came with variegated leaves. (I've seen black, gold...). Really lovely plant at Michelham Priory Gardens in Sussex.

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