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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...

Thank you all @pete - I don't have any moles that I know of, but I think I have some mice coming in from next door occasionally.....This plant is miles away from my house - we spotted it on the way back from the hospital the other day. It is quite near my daughters school though, so I will...

Why did I write S. for Salvia??? I',m going mad

Spot on Pete. Humble apologies... I was concerned when I said ...."maybe Skimmia sp." as I expected to see remains of flowers berries and there were non. I was positive it wasn't Rhodo.Pittosporum tobita nana fits perfectly esp the light coloured central vein. A super evergreen shrub. Well...

That's why I suggested looking under the leaves.

I've eaten dried goji berry but never seen a live plant before. Thank you very much @Silver surfer and I'll look out for any berries on the shrub.

Harmless toadstools, not worth bothering with. Yep, agree, coming from the wood set in the ground.

Hi was not a nursery we bought it from, the gardens just had a table of stuff they have thinned from the displays. Run by a lovely couple who do all the work by themselves and I presume volunteers.

Wonderful plant. I have Dark Knight here, I got it at Wisley Flower show last year but it’s been neglected in a pot