Not got a pic but it's a border / shrub / hedge grows like Cotoneaster but
more erect, pale green tiny leaves & delicious looking purple berries at the
moment. Used by councils for shrub beds all over Kent it seems!

Les

Janet wrote:
In article , says...

Not got a pic but it's a border / shrub / hedge grows like
Cotoneaster but more erect, pale green tiny leaves & delicious
looking purple berries at the moment. Used by councils for shrub
beds all over Kent it seems!

Les

sounds like berberis Darwinii. Orange flowers in spring.
Should be obtainable from any GC


Just had a peek on Google images... not the one Janet, thanks for trying
though!

Not prickly at all, leaves are REALLY tiny and alternate in much the same
manner as Cotonoeaster. Had to trim a border / hedge stuffed with it today.
Was waist high & dense. Pale, woody stems...

Les

In message , Les Hemmings
writes
Not got a pic but it's a border / shrub / hedge grows like Cotoneaster but
more erect, pale green tiny leaves & delicious looking purple berries at the
moment. Used by councils for shrub beds all over Kent it seems!

Unfortunately Cotoneasters have a variety of habits ranging from
creeping shrubs (C. adpressus) to trees (C. frigidus), so a comparison
with Cotoneaster doesn't help me.

Privet honeysuckle (Lonicera pileata) is widely used in amenity
plantings, has purple berries, and might be considered to have a similar
habit to wall cotoneaster (Cotoneaster horizontalis).

(But I see that you've just replied to Janet saying the leaves are
alternate - that eliminates Lonicera, which has opposite leaves.)

The classic purple-berried shrub is beautyberry (Callicarpa), but that
(in my experience) used in amenity plantings, and it also has opposite
leaves.

Les



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Stewart Robert Hinsley

Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:
In message , Les Hemmings
writes
Not got a pic but it's a border / shrub / hedge grows like
Cotoneaster but more erect, pale green tiny leaves & delicious
looking purple berries at the moment. Used by councils for shrub
beds all over Kent it seems!

Unfortunately Cotoneasters have a variety of habits ranging from
creeping shrubs (C. adpressus) to trees (C. frigidus), so a comparison
with Cotoneaster doesn't help me.

Privet honeysuckle (Lonicera pileata) is widely used in amenity
plantings, has purple berries, and might be considered to have a
similar habit to wall cotoneaster (Cotoneaster horizontalis).


You nailed it with Lonicera pileata Stewart! Thank you! ) My mistake with
the leaves... you can be hedge trimming stuff half the day and STILL get it
wrong!

Thanks Sacha, Janet... you've given me some great ideas for my prurple
berry fetish. Much apreciated!

Les

Les Hemmings wrote:
Not got a pic but it's a border / shrub / hedge grows like Cotoneaster but
more erect, pale green tiny leaves & delicious looking purple berries at the
moment. Used by councils for shrub beds all over Kent it seems!

Lonicera nitida.

Don't eat the berries!

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Rusty

In message , Rusty Hinge
writes
Les Hemmings wrote:
Not got a pic but it's a border / shrub / hedge grows like
Cotoneaster but more erect, pale green tiny leaves & delicious
looking purple berries at the moment. Used by councils for shrub beds
all over Kent it seems!

Lonicera nitida.

For clarification Lonicera pileata (privet honeysuckle) and Lonicera
nitida (box honeysuckle) are similar, and hybrids between them confuse
the issue further. The rule of thumb I use for distinguishing them is
that Lonicera pileata has a spreading/arching habit, and Lonicera nitida
an erect habit.

In my experience Lonicera nitida rarely fruits in this country, but
perhaps things are different in the southeast.

Don't eat the berries!


--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

For clarification Lonicera pileata (privet honeysuckle) and Lonicera
nitida (box honeysuckle) are similar, and hybrids between them confuse
the issue further. The rule of thumb I use for distinguishing them is
that Lonicera pileata has a spreading/arching habit, and Lonicera
nitida an erect habit.

In my experience Lonicera nitida rarely fruits in this country, but
perhaps things are different in the southeast.

Don't eat the berries!

Arching / spreading suits... not erect. And I used the term "delicious
looking" after seeing the translucent, dew laden berries under a gloriously
blue & sunny winter sky. Don't worry... not about to try them!

L

On Nov 18, 5:11*pm, "Les Hemmings" wrote:
Stewart Robert Hinsley wrote:

For clarification Lonicera pileata (privet honeysuckle) and Lonicera
nitida (box honeysuckle) are similar, and hybrids between them confuse
the issue further. The rule of thumb I use for distinguishing them is
that Lonicera pileata has a spreading/arching habit, and Lonicera
nitida an erect habit.

In my experience Lonicera nitida rarely fruits in this country, but
perhaps things are different in the southeast.

Don't eat the berries!

Arching / spreading suits... *not erect. And I used the term "delicious
looking" after seeing the translucent, dew laden berries under a gloriously
blue & sunny winter sky. Don't worry... *not about to try them!

L

Our L. Pileata was covered in berries this autumn, once they were ripe
thet lasted less than 2 days, the birds hit them like a plague of
locusts.
I didn't have time to get out with the camera.
David