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Another bushy-shrubby unknown.
Grateful Deadhead
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Dear Forum Members,
Can anyone identify this shrub please? I’ve tried to take useful photos – i hope they’re helpful. Also, does anyone have any good pruning advice in order to get it to be a more compact shrub and therefore better for privacy? It’s currently 2m in height, but not dense enough so not a great privacy screen.
Many many thanks!
The Grateful Deadhead
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Cotoneaster, one of the upright ones.
A cotoneaster, maybe C. simmonsii
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ooooh! Thank you.
Oddly enough it is near to this other non-vertical shrub which I previously thought may be of the cotoneaster family although with the elongated elliptical leaves I wasn't sure. I decided to take some snaps as was still light enough outside and seeing as you both know something about cotoneasters! Is this one also a Cotoneaster?
Thanks again
C simmonsii makes a good hedge so I'm sure you can chop it back and make it thicken up. Maybe in late winter?
Now that one's a lonicera - a shrubby honeysuckle. Maybe L. pileata?
I think it's L pileata
In the sticks near Peterborough
Hi -
Yes, for the C. simmonsii I have managed to find out that pruning would best be late winter early spring. - THANK YOU to both of you.
I'm really pleased to know what the low-spreading hedge was as well, but sad that this low-lier will not become high enough for screening. That whole side of the garden has become a priority project with regards to screening and maybe the subject of a future thread!
Bless you!