Identifying a plant
kerrybloomfield78
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Hello I'm hoping someone will be able to help. 
I have moved into a house with this plant in the garden I don't know how to care for it because I do not know what it is. E.g. when is best to prune it etc.
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Leycesteria formosa, aka Himalayan Honeysuckle but it isn't a honeysuckle.
You can do what you like to it, cut a few old stems to the ground, cut it all to the ground, it will come back. Don't just shorten all the stems to make it smaller though, that looks really naff.
In the sticks near Peterborough
You can search Google using any image you want to identify flowers or plants. To do this, go https://images.google.com and in the search bar you will see a little camera icon. You can upload an image or, copy the URL of the image you posted here (right click on the image -> Copy Image Address if using Chrome). The results will give you lots of similar images that you can hopefully use to identify your flowers.
Hope this helps!
Have you got shares in this meanwhileinhell?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ha, unfortunately not, I just think its a really useful tool that no one really knows about, and can be very useful for things like this. I use it all the time.
Last edited: 04 August 2017 22:07:46
Didn't know you could do that. Thank you
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In the sticks near Peterborough
I have three plants of that in my garden. It seeds everywhere . Quite pretty if you have the space.
That is useful pruning information Mike. Thanks
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
I think you'll find that lots of people know about it and use it when they're just starting out ... and then after a little while they discover its shortcomings and unreliability, and they turn to more reliable ways of identifying plants, whether it's via this forum, the RHS or some other forum .
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I think you're right Dove. They're for people that haven't yet grasped how many millions of plants there are to choose from, how similar some of them are, and how few of them they are familiar with.
I know just enough to know how much I don't know.
In the sticks near Peterborough
As you say Nut, the problem is that beginners don't know what they don't know, and Google poses as omniscient
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.