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Just looked back through my spreadsheet and in 2013 I sowed RHS free seeds "Lobelia x speciosa, H., tubular two-lipped purple flowers, 1-1.5m.". I normally grow seedlings on in pots and plant when they get big enough, I have no recollection that these ever germinated. It must be a tough little...

@Ceb i am wondering if your second plant is a Spiarea there are several different ones..

Thank you, Cinnamon, I had forgotten about them! I have Googled that plant and the flowers do look like that. I will have another look at the leaves tomorrow to make sure. We would like some of these in a new garden as well, so pretty and there are usually bees on it when I go out.Thanks again

A truly lovely plant but cage it as it suckers like crazy!

Thank you!

Good morning @Greybelle my friend no worries ,but the offer is always there,enjoy your day

I thought that there are two species, @pete? One flowers in Spring, the other in summer? Pentandra syn. ramosissima is the later flowering one? Mine's flowering at the mo, at least the bits that the hornets haven't eaten

I googled that and it does look like the wild type. Funny i've not seen them before. Thanks

Just a thought, but have you pruned it last year. That could stop flowers the following spring.

Many thanks for reporting back to everyone. That was a hard one to get correctly named. Interesting.

Ahh that makes a lot of sense, thanks for putting my mind at ease!

Willowherb.If you dig it up you should find swollen white roots (stolons) underneath by which means it spreads.

Certainly looks like FMN's Ban the little sods from your property forthwith!

Just came back to this thread to say the flowering shrub/tree is weigela but beaten too it by a week or so! Stumbled upon it looking for something else on line.The other straggly bush unfortunately is not a bay tree as its leaves have no scent, and are not as thick. Even more boring looking if...

Good morning @Silver surfer my friend and many thanks,enjoy your day

Nature at its best @Scrungee Masses of willowherb, hedgerows full of ripening fruit and fields going on forever Have to say, I've got ' wild brambles ' in my garden aswell though Don't want them in the garden either but......

Well Graham at last you know. Now to get rid of it. Although tedious, I'd try and remove the berries, perhaps even laying out some kind of sheeting beneath the plant. Then I'd cut the plant close to the ground. Gather up the plant and burn. Now dig out the root. Heep an eye on the soil and...