They are small creamy coloured flowers along the branches and then purple berries. Seldom see them on this type of shrub because it is often used as a hedge plant, and tips are snipped yearly, you are unlikely to see them.
Oh that’s good to know thank you, do the birds eat the berries? I snipped it last year but haven’t touched it this year so fingers crossed I’ll see some flowers and berries
Birds do eat the berries but it seems to me after all the red ones like cotoneaster and hawthorn have gone. I think it depends what is available in your area. They are beautiful and translucent, look great in the sun.
Bees love the flowers, I leave ours until most of the flowers have dropped before trimming. Our "hedge " never looks tidy.
I find them very useful as cover for ground feeding birds and wildlife. I don't grow it as hedging, but have a couple of stands of it - the golden one , Baggeson's Gold, and a bright green one called Spring [ sometimes Emerald] Green. I just trim stems back here and there to keep a loose shape.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I snipped it last year but haven’t touched it this year so fingers crossed I’ll see some flowers and berries
Cotoneaster have alternate leaves.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785&biw=1920&bih=937&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=CfMPXaHCMrLaxgPv0qDYCQ&q=cotoneaster.+leaves
While Lonicera have opposite leaves.
https://www.google.com/search?q=lonicera+nitida.+leaves&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB785GB785&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=PFF-8i5124S2UM%253A%252CpXuSUuPeGObNEM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTR7Q6iykHuARM9LAUjUooi5FrLgQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiQ-8TLyoDjAhVBiFwKHewKBqIQ9QEwAXoECAcQBg#imgrc=PFF-8i5124S2UM:
Hope this helps.
I think it depends what is available in your area.
They are beautiful and translucent, look great in the sun.
Bees love the flowers, I leave ours until most of the flowers have dropped before trimming.
Our "hedge " never looks tidy.
I don't grow it as hedging, but have a couple of stands of it - the golden one , Baggeson's Gold, and a bright green one called Spring [ sometimes Emerald] Green. I just trim stems back here and there to keep a loose shape.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...