What's this please.

My Abelia this afternoon.

 

I'll take some more pic's tomorrow to give a better perspective....I do not want a big shrub there!

 

PALADIN IT WILL TAKE 18MTHS TO GET 4-5FT. AND FLOWERS LIKE HORNBEAM. WHEN MY plant was 2ft. high the flowers looked like your pics. now they look like hb, pete and I are right 100%

 

Pic's tomorrow...and I'll await your advice on whether or not to move it :confused:

 

If I had to put money on it - I'd go for Abelia. Himalayan Honeysuckle gets as big as a large buddlia. Looks like it could be a biggun either way - depending on species, abelias range from 5 feet to 15 feet high!

 

look at this picture http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.atlas-roslin.pl/foto/km/km-weigela.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.atlas-roslin.pl/gatunki/Weigela_florida.htm&h=520&w=693&sz=89&hl=en& start=8&tbnid=GrctUSLO5Mny4M:&tbnh=104&tbnw=139&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dweigela%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN - it's just like it!
It's definitely not the leycesteria - the bracts are all wrong, and not abelia, as the leaves on abelia are shiny and tough looking. I'm convinced it's the non-variegated weigela - convince me otherwise!!

 

I'm about to have a breakdown here!!!!! :D

 

But surely Weigelas only flower in May and June. Abelias flower from June to September. Is Paladin's photo recent?

 

I stick with Abelia schumannii. Thank you, HB, for putting up the picture of the Leycesteria because I knew it wasn't that. May have gone a second go around for the Weigela but the flowering timing is wrong I agree. Abelias flower later in the year. Rosie's appears to be the A grandiflora which is glossy-leaved and semi-evergreen. The A schumanni is, I think, what Pal has!

http://www.worsleyhallgardencentre.com/plants1.htm

and scroll down a wee bit.

 

I take the point about flowering season, but you do get odd variations on that - and this year's been an odd one, that's for sure. The one at my cousin's which is a definite weigela certainly wasn't flowering when I saw it last weekend - but the leaves are absolutely right for Pal's photos. None of the photos I've looked at of the abelia schummannii are clear enough about the leaves for me to be totally convinced - keep working on it, folks! :D

 

Seems pretty clear to me that LOL is spot on. It is a lovely plant Paladin so I hope that you can relocate it safely.

 

Have a look at the purple bract behind the flower that shows up on Pal's pic, I dont think you get that with Abelia, could be wrong, I've never grown an abelia, but I have a leycesteria.

 

Maybe we'll just have to wait and see if Pal's clusters of flowers turn in tassels of flowers followed by berries! The reddish sepals which make up the calix (bracts) behind the flowers of the Abelia remain after the petals have fallen. So, time may tell! ;eyes:

 

Do you get berries on abelia?