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Please can someone identify this beautiful shrub/plant

BigpaulBigpaul Posts: 15
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053
    edited December 2019
    Callicarpa "profusion"
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/96060/callicarpa-bodinieri-var-giraldii-profusion/details
    Devon.
  • BigpaulBigpaul Posts: 15
    Thanks for the quick reply 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,053
    Bigpaul said:
    Thanks for the quick reply 
    My pleasure
    Devon.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 52,124
    It's a particularly splendid specimen  too @Bigpaul :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • yorkshireroseyorkshirerose Posts: 574
    It's beautiful in the Autumn/early Winter, but not very attractive throughout Spring and Summer, unfortunately. 
    A gardener's work is never at an end  - (John Evelyn 1620-1706)
  • LynLyn Posts: 21,927
    I’ve got one of those, never had a berry on it, I did read somewhere that you need two, or one nearby.   Anyone know if that’s true. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,159
    Lyn said:
    I’ve got one of those, never had a berry on it, I did read somewhere that you need two, or one nearby.   Anyone know if that’s true. 
    I've heard that as well. I had 3 but never a berry and they never flourished


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LynLyn Posts: 21,927
    Perhaps it’s just not suited to my garden then,   Cold windy and acid. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,159
    edited December 2019
    Lyn said:
    Perhaps it’s just not suited to my garden then,   Cold windy and acid. 
    hmm, cold ,dry, (except this season) and alkaline here. :) 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • yorkshireroseyorkshirerose Posts: 574
    Don't lose hope, Lyn and nutcutlet. I was so tired of mine not producing any berries for 5 years I planned to throw it out. Instead I put it in a pot, in a 'forgotten', darkish part of the garden where it stayed unloved until 2 years ago when I came across it and felt guilty for ignoring it for so long. It was still thriving so I planted it back in the garden ( in an alkaline soil, west facing) and it has been full of berries this year!
    A gardener's work is never at an end  - (John Evelyn 1620-1706)
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