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Charlie Pridham wrote:
1) small leaved low bush with oval leaves with pointed ends, about 1cm
long, evergreen, inconspicuous flowers, seen in municipal plantings
everywhere, and not L nitida (which has round ends to the leaves.

2) evergreen climber, leaves about 1.5cm long, oval, abundant small
pink
flowers in early summer, branches festooned with red berries in late
summer
1st one is probably pileata.
2nd one is tricky as most of the main evergreen group have black
berries.
if foliage is blue grey then may be splendida, difficult to grow and
hard to
get hold of. another possibility is implexa but I have not seen the
berries.

The implexa has dark red flowers and again black berries. I'm wondering
if the 2nd has been mistaken with a cotonoaster. How 'small' are the
flowers, trumpets, with 3 or 6 or 9 petals, rose like flowers with 6
rounded petals?

I can not see anyone mistaking a honeysuckle for anything else ! and I have
certainly never come across a climbing Cotoneaster.

Other thoughts are Lonicera x americana which has the right colour berries
(and is a hybrid of implexa) but this for me flowers all summer and autumn