What is this bush/tree/plant?

[Callie]

Looks a bit like mock orange/Philadelphus but the foliage is too yellow?

 

[Calamity1971]

Found this on rhs. Thanks Callie that has to be it.
Philadelphus coronarius 'Aureus' | mock orange 'Aureus'/RHS Gardening

 

[lizzieloo]

We have 2 Philadelphus, highly recommended

 

[StoneRoad]

Yep, that looks like mock orange.

There is one in my back garden, wonderful scent and the bees / butterflies like it very much !

 

[gentlegreen]

I never seem to catch the scent when I pass one - probably because the hayfever has struck by the time it blooms.

My personal favourite is the plant that is actually related to the orange - choisya - it has aromatic foliage.

 

[clicker]

I've got the Mexican Sunrise choisya, a definite value for money shrub. Mines about 8 foot high now, acid green leaves all year, amazingly fragrant white flowers, seems indestructible, demands nothing and gives big.

 

[Calamity1971]

I've got the Mexican Sunrise choisya, a definite value for money shrub. Mines about 8 foot high now, acid green leaves all year, amazingly fragrant white flowers, seems indestructible, demands nothing and gives big. View attachment 174597

Are you in a sheltered spot? Looked on rhs about them after gentlegreen posted it up. It says it needs full sun and shelter and I'm totally exposed to the elements here.

 

[clicker]

Are you in a sheltered spot? Looked on rhs about them after gentlegreen posted it up. It says it needs full sun and shelter and I'm totally exposed to the elements here.

Yes quite sheltered and it's growing up and now above a fence and through a tree. It gets sun most of the day.

 

[Calamity1971]

Yes quite sheltered and it's growing up and now above a fence and through a tree. It gets sun most of the day.

Might try the mock orange then. Looks like that is quite hardy. Ta.

 

[StoneRoad]

I'm 800 foot up, in SW Northumberland. my mock orange seems happy - it's due a prune this year, after it has flowered, and only part will be done.

 

[Callie]

Ok bush fans... What's this one?



Looks a bit like buddleia.... but too early...but the fact that it looks different anyway might mean it will s a buddleia but it's a different one. Yunno?!

 

[clicker]

A deutzia or weigela? I killed both over the years, but it reminds me of them, well before they died. My escallonia has leaves a bit like that but darker and has just bloomed.

Eta whatever it is, I do like things that hold their own ; with little human help.

 

[geminisnake]

Thank you clicker, you've just named the other shrub I bought some yrs ago and can never remember the name of(the other was weigela and with being a weegie I remember that one!)

Callie those flowers are deffo buddliea like, but I've never seen a spawling buddliea like that. Could it be a type of spirea? the leaves in the bottom photo are spirea like but the upper photos are more buddliea like. I just went out and check my spirea Cos it's June and still daylight

 

[campanula]

buddleja alternifolia - looks nice growing over an arch or a gate...or anywhere where it's naturally prostrate nature is enhanced.
Like philadelphus and deutzia, it flowers on 2 year old wood...so prune all the flowering shoots to the base as soon as flowering is over, allowing last years branches to ripen and bear flowers next season, while new laterals will spring from the base (to flower in 2 years).

 

[gentlegreen]

Is this a walnut ?

 

[Libertad]

Is this a walnut ?

Yes I believe it is.

 

[SheilaNaGig]

What's this please?


Growing on a verge on a chalk track in Wiltshire.

Ta

 

[gentlegreen]

looks salsify / chicoryish ...

EDIT:-

tragopogon / goat's beard ?

tragopogon - Google Search

I misremembered chicory - it has quite dainty flowers.

 

[Calamity1971]

I think it's goats beard (daisy and dandelion family)

 

[Calamity1971]

Also known as Jack-go-to-bed-at-noon.

 

[gentlegreen]

I only recognised it because I once grew it but never even tasted it so saw it go to seed.

I'd forgotten about the diabetic-friendly inulin sugars - I may have to grow it in the future along with the black form (scorzonera) and Jerusalem artichokes.

 

[Scaggs]

Does anyone know what this shrub is? It's on Bryher in Scilly. Apparently it has hairy leaves.

 

[Calamity1971]

Does anyone know what this shrub is? It's on Bryher in Scilly. Apparently it has hairy leaves.
View attachment 176390View attachment 176390

Looks like bottle brush.
Growing Bottlebrush Plants – Learn About Callistemon Bottlebrush Care

 

[Scaggs]

That was quick, Thanks

 

[campanula]

Apparently it has hairy leaves.

The hairy leaves is throwing me somewhat. I have grown callistemon citrina which definitely didn't have downy foliage. One of the metrosideros, I think, is worth looking at (not that I have grown this myself).

 

[campanula]

Ah, I can see the full picture now and I definitely think not a callistemon...in fact< I think it is the New Zealand Christmas tree (Maori name escapes me - pakehua or summat) so I am going to look online.
eta Pohutukawa. Metrosideros excelsior

 

[Scaggs]

Ah, I can see the full picture now and I definitely think not a callistemon...in fact< I think it is the New Zealand Christmas tree (Maori name escapes me - pakehua or summat) so I am going to look online.
eta Pohutukawa. Metrosideros excelsior

That does look like it. I'll check with my wife who sent me the picture. Sure she said it had hairy leaves.

 

[gentlegreen]

 

[gentlegreen]

Hopefully there will be flowers at some point.

 

[Shippou-Sensei]

What is this plant?