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Guernsey Donkey2

Can anyone help me to identify these plants - mostly seen today on a walk around our neighbourhood.Pictures 1 and 2 are the same plant.Is picture 4 a rambling rose?The last plant looked like a giant cotoneaster - about 8 or 9 foot high.

Last edited: 04 October 2016 20:06:29

Hortum-cretae

Hibiscus, but not the hardiest form, I recall. Two is rosa rugosa - the hips can go on the barbecue, sharp sweet taste, Three, cotoneaster, probably C. cornubia.

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Cambridgerose12

OK, so 1 and 2 are of a hibiscus as hortum-cretae says, and indeed, not hardy, probably a tender bedding plant. I don't know the variety. 3 shows a hardy shrub, Hibiscus syriacus, possibly the variety 'Arden'? 4 is as Hortum-cretae says Rosa rugosa, but in the absence of flowers, we cannot tell the variety. Last one looks to me like Cotoneaster 'Cornubia'.

Guernsey Donkey2

So the first three pictures are Hibiscus - there was another hibiscus in that garden - but the flowers had finished already. Yes, sorry now flowers left on the Rosa rugosa but the hips looked amazingly big and juicy - aren't they attractive to birds? I had never realized that Cotoneasters came in such large varieties - again the birds don't seem to have attacked the berries, surprisingly. Thanks Cambridgerose and Hortum

Dovefromabove

Often the birds don't take the berries until they are softened by the winter weather.