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Please ID my shrubs!
Hi everyone
I have three shrubs that I am thinking of taking out, but want to make sure I am not removing some precious plant first lol. Could anyone ID them for me please?
The two shrubs to the side of the pear tree and acer, I will add close ups too
Shrub 1
Shrub 2
Shrub 3-not the hydrangea, which is also quite spingly and needs to come out. But the fluffy pink flowered one.
Thanks everyone. I hope the pics don't come out quite as large as on my computer. Apologies if they do!
I have three shrubs that I am thinking of taking out, but want to make sure I am not removing some precious plant first lol. Could anyone ID them for me please?
The two shrubs to the side of the pear tree and acer, I will add close ups too
Shrub 1
Shrub 2
Shrub 3-not the hydrangea, which is also quite spingly and needs to come out. But the fluffy pink flowered one.
Thanks everyone. I hope the pics don't come out quite as large as on my computer. Apologies if they do!
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Comments
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Think shrub 1 is box.If you've have not made a mistake, you've made nothing0
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Shrub 1 looks like Lonicera Nitida. Shrub 2 looks like a Choisya Ternata (Mexican Orange). Shrub 3, the flowers look like my Spirae0
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No1 looks like a cotoneaster to me. No 3 is a horrible self setting weed thing that took over our hedge - don't know its name though. No2 looks lovely but I don't know what it is - does it flower?0
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A second vote for lonicera nitida for 1. 2 possibly euonymus fortunei? It looks like it has reverted from the variegated type to plain green in the centre. 3. Spirea. None of them very unusual.0
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Thanks everyone. I've been reliably informed by a friend that it's a shrubby honeysuckle, a euonymous microphyllus (or something like that lol) and a spirea billardii. Someone else said the last is invasive but I've been in this house 5 years and it was well established when I moved in, but it's hardly grown at all. Anyway, all will come out now, including the hydrangea in front of said spirea. Thanks again0
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Thanks both, I knew it was the common name for it, I just couldn't spell the Latin one lol.0
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