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Can anyone identify these shrubs/trees, please

(12 Posts)
Kittye Sat 26-Aug-17 16:36:13

Gardening mad DH said definitely cotoneaster

grandtanteJE65 Sat 26-Aug-17 16:28:38

Thanks everyone. It might well be a bay gone rampant, as everything in this garden has been allowed to go rampant, but no, the leaves do not smell at all. As there is some kind of fruit, there must have been flowers, but they must be very insignificant, as I haven't noticed them, either last year or this.

The other is probably a cotoneaster, and no, it has been planted sometime around the time the house was built in 1927, as it is in what doubtless was intended to be a shrubbery. No-one seem to have done anything except mow the grass for years.

jevive73 Sat 26-Aug-17 15:46:47

secnd pic looks like my bay tree

midgey Sat 26-Aug-17 13:56:53

Definitely a cotoneaster, if it's in an odd place it could well be bird sown!

Craftycat Sat 26-Aug-17 11:43:00

Cotoneaster- I have several in garden- they grow like wildfire but can be pruned back hard.

Hilltopgran Fri 25-Aug-17 22:49:25

I agree the berries and leaf look like a variety of cotoneaster. For the other, it does look similar to bay, but I have one in my garden that similar in looks and habit but is not bay, but a member of olive family. It grows very fast and has to have a good prune every year to keep in check.

jusnoneed Fri 25-Aug-17 17:50:54

The berries/leaves could be a Whitebeam tree.

J52 Fri 25-Aug-17 16:15:10

Looking at the leaves on image 1, I'll suggest a type of Viburnum.

J52 Fri 25-Aug-17 16:10:32

The tree looks like a bay that gone rampant. Do the leaves smell?

grannyticktock Fri 25-Aug-17 13:52:54

Yes, I agree about the cotoneaster - it's a large shrub. The flowers that precede those berries are insignificant-looking, but bees simply love them, so it's a good plant for wildlife.

Not sure about the tree, sorry.

Baggs Fri 25-Aug-17 13:27:52

I think 4344 is a kind of cotoneaster.

grandtanteJE65 Fri 25-Aug-17 13:19:24

I'm reclaiming an overgrown shrubbery, and out of pure curiosity, I would love to know what these are.
image 4344 is now eight feet tall, but I believe it is really a bush, not a tree.
image 4348 shows the leaf and fruit of a tree, the tree itself is image 4350. I've tried google and various gardening books but can't find anything that matches, and the neighbours are just as ignorant gardeners as I am.