In message , Muddymike
writes
I have a lot of shrubs in the garden that I don't know the names of or, more
importantly when to prune them. Some are getting a little too big and will
need pruning this year but I don't want to ruin them by pruning at the wrong
time. Perhaps some of you would have the time to take a look at the pictures
I have taken this morning (sorry there are 38 of them) and posted to
http://www.twango.com/channel/Muddymike.public Just click on any one to see
a bigger picture.
This site has provision for you to add comments, but sadly only if you take
time to register. It would be great if someone with the time and knowledge
could add the names and pruning time, if not then please reply with the
information on any you know along with the picture number and I shall add it
to the site as
a permanent record. It would also be good to know if, and when I can take
cuttings from them as I have a lot more space to fill in the garden.
1. Not sure, but I think that it's Ceanothus (Californian Lilac)
2. Pass.
3. Ribes uva-crispa (Gooseberry)
4. Kerria japonica 'Flore Pleno'
5. Clematis
6. Pass. It looks a bit like a Forsythia, but I'd assume that you would
have the flowers on that.
7. Holly cultivar
8. Pyracantha (Firethorn)
9. Something rosaceous, perhaps one of the non-native Crataegi.
10. Mahonia; I'm not completely sure whether it's Oregon Grape (Mahonia
aquifolium).
11. Forsythia.
12. Potentilla; a lot of the shrubby Potentillas are cultivars of P.
frutescens, but I can't say whether this one is.
13. Hebe
14. Berberis thunbergii
15. Another Hebe
16. Not sure; perhaps a Berberis, but the flowers look rather solitary.
17. Pass. (Given all the Hebes, this might be yet another one.)
18. Pass.
18. Buddleia
20. Possibly another Ceanothus.
21. Isn't that the same as 2?
22. Pass.
23. Buddleia, and probably Buddleia davidii.
24. Possibly Euonymus, of the E. fortunei, etc. persuasion.
25. Ceanothus.
26. Pass.
27. Sympharicarpos (Snowberry or Coralberry)
28. Berberis, probably Berberis darwinii
29. Rosa
30. Hebe again.
31. and again.
32. Pass.
33. Euonymus, again. Might be 'Emeerald 'n' Gold'.
34. Pieris.
35. Photinia 'Red Robin'
36. Pass.
37. Cytisus. As it's in flower then it might be one of the forms of
Cytisus x praecox, such as 'Allgold'. (Cytisus x praecox is strongly
scented.)
38. Yet another Hebe.
Also what is this
http://www.twango.com/media/Muddymik...e.10071?sort=4 several
have come up since I cleared the Ivy.
39. From the location I'd infer that it's Ivy Broomrape, Orobanche
hederae.
Mike
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Stewart Robert Hinsley