I am trying to identify a pair of inherited cotoneasters.
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http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk/dsc01209.jpg
After some 15 years and only an annual trim to cut back straggling
stems they are now very compact mounds 30 inches across and 18 inches
tall.
Attractive but not profuse, short lived white, five petalled flowers
in June. Berries not held.
Definitely a foliage plant, rather than grown for flowers or berries.
Strongly evergreen, small shiny leaves, just over 0.5 inches long.
Remains dark shiny green all year round.

A sample taken to a local garden centre (which was responsible for
planting up the garden), was confidently identified as C.dammeri. -
That, it is not.

A Google search suggests that Cotoneaster x suecicus might be a
possibility but I can't find that one's growing habit.

Experts please, any suggestions that I can follow up?
Or, better, a positive identification. :-))
Thanks.

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ned

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ned wrote:
I am trying to identify a pair of inherited cotoneasters.
Image at
http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk/dsc01209.jpg
After some 15 years and only an annual trim to cut back straggling
stems they are now very compact mounds 30 inches across and 18 inches
tall.
Attractive but not profuse, short lived white, five petalled flowers
in June. Berries not held.
Definitely a foliage plant, rather than grown for flowers or berries.
Strongly evergreen, small shiny leaves, just over 0.5 inches long.
Remains dark shiny green all year round.

A sample taken to a local garden centre (which was responsible for
planting up the garden), was confidently identified as C.dammeri. -
That, it is not.

A Google search suggests that Cotoneaster x suecicus might be a
possibility but I can't find that one's growing habit.

Experts please, any suggestions that I can follow up?
Or, better, a positive identification. :-))
Thanks.

Can't help with the ID but I have one that has red berries that blackbirds
love, it wouldn't be so bad but they then crap the seeds everywhere and they
are growing all over the place, between paving stones, in the lawn
etc...what do you mean 'berries not held'?, and how hard can they be cut
back? - mine seems like a triffid, every time I give it a trim it gets
bigger

Phil L wrote:
ned wrote:
I am trying to identify a pair of inherited cotoneasters.
Image at
http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk/dsc01209.jpg
After some 15 years and only an annual trim to cut back straggling
stems they are now very compact mounds 30 inches across and 18
inches
tall.
Attractive but not profuse, short lived white, five petalled
flowers
in June. Berries not held.
Definitely a foliage plant, rather than grown for flowers or
berries.
Strongly evergreen, small shiny leaves, just over 0.5 inches long.
Remains dark shiny green all year round.

A sample taken to a local garden centre (which was responsible for
planting up the garden), was confidently identified as C.dammeri. -
That, it is not.

A Google search suggests that Cotoneaster x suecicus might be a
possibility but I can't find that one's growing habit.

Experts please, any suggestions that I can follow up?
Or, better, a positive identification. :-))
Thanks.

Can't help with the ID but I have one that has red berries that
blackbirds love, it wouldn't be so bad but they then crap the seeds
everywhere and they are growing all over the place, between paving
stones, in the lawn etc...what do you mean 'berries not held'?, and
how hard can they be cut back? - mine seems like a triffid, every
time I give it a trim it gets bigger

:-)
'berries not held' - that was me attempting a shorthand version of
'berries are not a long lasting feature of the shrub.' They do not
seem to fully develop and drop early.
And I know what you mean about the trifid properties of some plants
but mine are fairly constrained. What spread they achieve seems to
come from layering of lower branches.
I always reckon that the stronger something grows, the harder you can
cut it back.
If, during the battle to contain it, you kill it, then you have won.

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ned