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Solved Help to identify this plant please

Discussion in 'Identification Area' started by tristanstartsgardening, Jun 3, 2019.

  1. shiney

    shiney President, Grumpy Old Men's Club Staff Member

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    I can't actually see the bamboo in the hedge but have to agree with longk about invasiveness.

    Also, those trees in the hedge seem to me not to be part of the original planting but are self-seeded and, if so, need to be removed or cut right back. If the hedge is mainly berberis then regular trimming would be OK but this may give you more info.

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    @tristanstartsgardening Also looks like Myrobalam (Cherry) Plum, a hedging plant, so I checked the images above against my bushes yesterday and they're identical.

    I suggest looking to see if those red stems are green underneath (that's how they're coloured on bushes bearing yellow plums and they're red all round on those producing red fruit) plus taking a picture of the trunk near the base to see what the bark looks like. Myrobalam should have had white blossom in Spring, but maybe not if they'd been cut back.
     
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      Thanks for the reply. I'll upload more pics later.
       
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      Here are a few more pictures hopefully it helps.

      There are indeed some green colour underneath the red/purple stems but not all stems have green underneath.

      The trunk is in dark green colour and have hard long pricks as you can see from the picture.

      I haven't seen any flowers or fruits though.
       

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      @Silver surfer I trimmed the ash tree today and noticed that its leaves and the top tip of the tree looks exactly the same as another tree you believed to be Sorbus aucuparia (common name Rowan) at #4.

      So I toke a few more pictures for ash tree and would like to confirm it is indeed ash tree.
       

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      The trunk also looks identical to those on my Cherry Plums.
       
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      Yes all 4 pics below are the Ash tree.
      The Ash tree is still tiny...bark still green.
      With good secateurs you could cut that down to the ground.

      PLEASE can you just click FULL IMAGE when you load your pics.
      It saves going back and for to enlarge.
      Makes looking so much easier.
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      Thanks for checking! How you maintain it? I trimmed one yesterday to give other hedge plants (Berberis) more sunshine and rains.

      Now there are loads of stems grown in spring as you can see from pictures I uploaded, but no fruits/flowers.
       
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      They were bare rooted whips planted as windbreaks to the West and North of polytunnel many years ago and have only started bearing fruit in the last couple of years. I've let them do their own thing, only removing a few stems that would overhang a pathway after rain. A hedge with them in countryside about 10 mins walk from home always produced more fruit than my bushes, but they landowners have taken to cutting it every year and now it doesn't produce a single plum, where in the past we could pick hundreds of pounds from it (fresh fruit, jam, chutney, wine, etc.).
       
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