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Can anyone identify this plant please?

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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,252
    Any chance of an in focus close up of the leaf?
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,551
    Leycesteria?
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 86,078
    That’s my first thought too ... but a clearer pic would be good 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • yorkshireroseyorkshirerose Posts: 574
    I agree with Leycesteria too.
    A gardener's work is never at an end  - (John Evelyn 1620-1706)
  • sarah717sarah717 Posts: 5
    Thank you everyone, are these pictures any better? 

  • sarah717sarah717 Posts: 5

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,551
    yup, I'm sticking with leycesteria formosa
    Devon.
  • sarah717sarah717 Posts: 5
    Fantastic, thank you! As long as it’s not Japanese Knotweed!  Which, from the little I know has quite different characteristics? 

    Is Leycesteria Formosa and nice one to keep? 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,551
    sarah717 said:
    Fantastic, thank you! As long as it’s not Japanese Knotweed!  Which, from the little I know has quite different characteristics? 

    Is Leycesteria Formosa and nice one to keep? 
    It's nice if you keep an eye on it. It can get bigger and bigger and become a beast, but kept under control and pruned to remove old wood , it's  fine plant. It seeds about so watch for babies. 
    Devon.
  • sarah717sarah717 Posts: 5
    👍🏻
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