What is this bush/tree/plant?

[kabbes]

Compare with this.

http://www.botanica.org.uk/Plants/HedgePlants/Lonicera.htm

Based on that picture, I'd say it's a good call.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Also the way it sends out branches, just seems typical growing habit. I think there are a few different varieties so have a fossick about on gardening sites until you're satisfied it's the exact type.

 

[kabbes]

Also, honeysuckle does have a very distinctive smell. It's not known as a cat attractor AFAIK, but Quoad's cat might have a thing for it.

 

[fakeplasticgirl]

http://www.ehow.com/about_6585625_honeysuckle-wood-cats.html

 

[kabbes]

Well well well. There you go.

Mystery solved!

 

[geminisnake]

To be honest, the leaves look like ash. But that wouldn't be a bush.

I think I'll leave this to the experts.

The leaves do NOT look like ash. Ash leaves aren't shiny!! It looks to me like box privet which has been badly neglected and in severe need of pruning back into shape or taken out totally. It won't be the shrub itself she's interested in it'll be whatever else is marking the shrub ime. It's also definetly NOT an acer or maple. Kabbes stick to your numbers mate coz you don't seem to have a clue about shrubs/trees

 

[kabbes]

 

[wayward bob]

i have another bush question for you garden detectives

what's this plant? it's flowering now and smells like when i was a kid (obvs it's not the ivy bits, i know what they are)

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Cherry Laurel.

 

[Edie]

Jesus quoad, you are like a fountain of the most mundane, suburban queries known to man how the hell are you?

 

[joustmaster]

this cat has a very long tongue

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Cherry Laurel.

I've just been over the park and I'm crap at plants and flowers so you can name some of mine please

 

[wayward bob]

cheers mrs m the kids think it smells rank but i fuckin love it.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Well, I was in Paddington today in a garden and there's a tree that I have no idea as to what it is. Weird pale green slightly knobbly okra-like pods. My google fingers have been letting me down

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

cheers mrs m the kids think it smells rank but i fuckin love it.

I was in the park in the garden and there was a strong smell of wee.

What plants/flowers smell of wee?

 

[wayward bob]

it definitely doesn't smell of wee or spunk

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Flowering Currant smells of cats piss, but weirdly, only if you cut it and put it in a vase.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Flowering Currant smells of cats piss, but weirdly, only if you cut it and put it in a vase.

Not sure what it was. Maybe it was pee, considering some twats had decided to feed the pond some lager, maybe they decided to have a piss as well

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I did think that was high on the list of possibilities.

 

[gentlegreen]

i have another bush question for you garden detectives

what's this plant? it's flowering now and smells like when i was a kid (obvs it's not the ivy bits, i know what they are)

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5067/5621810159_aa9e16dd3a.jpg

There's a laurelly thing I cycle past most evenings and it honks.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Yup, cherry laurel again. It's popular in municipal plantings because it's really hardy and just gets on with it. As to the smell, not everyone's sense of smell is the same. I'm in the rank camp.

 

[wayward bob]

mine is tinged with a massive hint of nostalgia tbf.

 

[gentlegreen]

Well, I was in Paddington today in a garden and there's a tree that I have no idea as to what it is. Weird pale green slightly knobbly okra-like pods. My google fingers have been letting me down

Are they pods that have been set this year ?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Yup. I was going to attach a pic but have forgotten how They start off like tiny little green cherries. The blossom is white, similar to apple blossom.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Remembered how to do it...any ideas as to what it is? I've managed to include both a big pod and a not yet grown one. The tree is deciduous.

 

[gentlegreen]

That's an amazing level of productivity so early in the year - I haven't even seen robinias et al. flowering yet ...

 

[Mrs Magpie]

It's in a very sheltered courtyard in central London. I cut it back for the owners a couple of years ago. They thought it was a cherry tree, planted 30 years ago from a cherry stone. It's flourished since I cut it back and has produced its pods for the first time.

 

[invisibleplanet]

Flowering Currant smells of cats piss, but weirdly, only if you cut it and put it in a vase.

I hate, and I mean HATE the smell of flowering currant. When I moved here, the parks were full of the blasted things. Ugh, it's a disgusting smell even if not cut & put in a vase. It's absolutely no use to humans as you can't even eat the fruits! Loathsome smelling, useless ornamental plant!

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Bees like it.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I've amended the thread title and made it a sticky. Hope that's OK.