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from "Sarah Dale" contains these words:

My present "hedges" (if that word can be used in this context) are a mess
of dogwood, a prickly thing with pretty pink flowers in summer, a shrub /
tree type plant that has grown trunks through 10 yrs of mismanagement by
previous owneres, the odd conifer, a prostrate conifer (!), and one
pyracantha to cath the pruner unawares.....

Dogwood shouldn't be prickly - you may have a new variety there......

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