Can you help us to identify this?

benchyboo

Hi,
It's about time we made a start on clearing our garden but we've got lots of this (http://s1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh634/Benchyboo/) that we can't identify. Can anyone help? It's not the garden chair we need help with by the way
We hope to find out what it is so we know how to deal with it, we are total beginners!
Thanks in advance,
Benchyboo

Horace

Hard to see the plants properly but I would say that they look like brambles.

benchyboo

Thanks Horace, I'll take a close up pic.

benchyboo

http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh634/Benchyboo/4ff47cdd.jpg

http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh634/Benchyboo/7161979c.jpg

Had a look at it, there have been bramble bushes out there that we cut back and it seems different to them.

RAS

The first of those photos is better for ID but...

1. It is definately not brambles.
2. I do not recognise it at all.

benchyboo

Thanks for looking RAS.

Horace

I have looked in my RHS book and can't seem to find it.

I would be inclined to clear the garden of it and start again from scratch.

benchyboo

Thanks for looking Horace, it's appreciated.

cte1111

It looks a bit like honeysuckle I think, we've got some that's gone wild like this.

Here's a pic:
http://mirror-us-ga1.gallery.hd.org/_exhibits/leaves/_more2005/_more07/honeysuckle-bush-in-July-sunshine-in-suburban-garden-in-London-England-1-JR.jpg

emiff6

Looks the same as my winter flowering honeysuckle. Has it had little creamy white flowers on it? Beautiful shrubby version of honeysuckle that doen't try to take over the entire garden, but stays neatly in one place. Very sweetly scented - good early food for bees.

benchyboo

Cte1111, it doesn't flower, it just grows and grows.