Can you help identify this shrub ?

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  1. Sargan

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    Hope I posted in right sub-forum


    We have a plant given to us by my m Mother who can’t remember what it is.

    It is growing well, shrub, has creamy white flowers in spring.

    Can anybody help identify ? …… best guess from my wife is an Azalea …. We need to know so we can prune correctly.

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    and a close up of leaf



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      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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      Bottom picture looks like goat willow to me,
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      Salix caprea

      I can see some different leaves in the first picture.
       
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        Is there a way to confirm?
         
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        Just my own feeling:biggrin:
        But I think you may well have two plants in that pot, the original, plus an interloper, which has seeded its self along side your actual plant.
         
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          There is only one plant in there (can photo again if need be)

          Wife checked the suggestion above ... not that, as no 'catkins'.
           
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            Any chance of a better picture, bigger, of the whole plant?
             
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              Hi Sargan,

              If you look above the Iris flower on this pic you'll see some leaves very much like yours. This is our Salix " Kilmarnock" .

              Don't be put off by the lack of Pussy Willows ( as we know the "catkins " as ) , ours is around three years old and hasn't produces any yet.
               
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              Sorry, it wouldn't let me upload the picture originally, had to do it on a separate post.

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              2 pics of shrub below ..... flowers nothing like those .... they were small creamy white flowers.
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                  If it is an Amelanchier ... there would be evidence of small black berries where those small, white, flowers once were. Admittedly, blackbirds would strip the plant clean of any berries at first sighting :heehee: but as we are experiencing a somewhat dry "summer", I would expect to see a fruit or three still clinging for dear life on your shrub? Certainly mine have.
                   
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                  Did not mean it was Amelanchier ... just using that as an example of flower shape .... and it has no berries
                   
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                    If there are not two different plants growing in that pot, I should have gone to specsavers.;):smile:

                    You can even see the two separate stems in pic one clearly, the leaves of the taller plant are totally different to the shorter one.
                     
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                      Magnolia 'Stellata' ? & a Willow.
                       
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                        Well it came as 2 stems joined together into one ... if it is 2 plants then ... my question splits identifying 2 plants.
                        So we know how and when to prune.

                        Can confirm no berries originally or residual.

                        My mother cannot remember what it is.
                         
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