Leycester

widgetwilk ann

Anyone got one of these?? how can I control it, had it 2 years, it's gone mad, but I love the flowers.

Lizzie27

After it's finished flowering, you can restrain it by cutting out the oldest flowering stems to the ground (about a third of the bush) each year. You can also take out any suckering shoots. I like it as well as the flowers are unusual. 

widgetwilk ann

Great thanks, so will wait till spring? Then sharpen the secotairs?

Lizzie27

Yes. The common name is Pheasant berry, apparently so called because when the berries arrive, they are so heavy and numerous, the branches bow down towards the ground - in reach of the pheasants that love them.

widgetwilk ann

Thanks Lizzie, but have no pheasants, have not seen the birds go for them.

MuddyFork

Robins, Wrens and Blackbirds love the berries later in the year.

widgetwilk ann

Thanks, usually have lots of blackbirds, will look out for them.