Is this a smaller version of the wiegela? Saw it on a walk the other day - only a foot or so high though , although it look s like its planted with other baby shrubs
No, that one's a Japanese azalea, come in a wider range of colours, (pink, white, red , orange) and flowers this time of year. Evergreen and hardy unless you are somewhere very cold. I can just about grow them, but they don't do as well here as they do for other people in warmer climes. They don't get very large, but the one in the pic is really quite a baby. It is only the same size as the indoor azaleas you see in the shops from autumn on, and those are definitely not hardy.
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The first looks like wiegela (? Spelling)
Not sure on the second, but could be a form of St John's wort - latin name escapes me for the moment - need another cuppa
Oh thank you for identifying the wiegala. I think youre right it could be st johns wort but it never flowers....
I agree with chicky, weigela for number one and the Latin name for number two is Hypericum'.
You could try giving it a sprinkling of feed and a good mulch to encourage it to flower this year wakeshine.
I have the second one in my garden and it has beautiful yellow flowers in late spring and yes I think it is St John's wort
Thank you everbody wort it is :-)
St John's wort flowers like mad every year, is it in shade because it does like growing under trees. It may not like full sun.
Yeah its def in shade as its near a shed and under the wiegela. I will feed it, maybe it's not time yet for the flowes?
Is this a smaller version of the wiegela? Saw it on a walk the other day - only a foot or so high though , although it look s like its planted with other baby shrubs
Looks like an azalea to me, with a variegated euonymous bottom left corner.
No, that one's a Japanese azalea, come in a wider range of colours, (pink, white, red , orange) and flowers this time of year. Evergreen and hardy unless you are somewhere very cold. I can just about grow them, but they don't do as well here as they do for other people in warmer climes. They don't get very large, but the one in the pic is really quite a baby. It is only the same size as the indoor azaleas you see in the shops from autumn on, and those are definitely not hardy.