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What is this plant?

AMB
Год(а)/Лет назад: 5
Could the green-fingered among you tell me what this bush is please?

Комментарии: 7

  • rachelmidlands
    Год(а)/Лет назад: 5
    I’m no expert but first thought it might be a bottlebrush or hebe perhaps, you do get some late flowering hebes but the the leaf and flower shape look wrong. Could be Clerodendrum bungei otherwise known as Mexican hydrangea https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/29541/i-Clerodendrum-bungei-i/Details It can be a bit thuggish and sucker freely which would explain its rampant habit, apparently the leaves can smell a bit pungent.
  • PRO
    Arthur Road Landscapes
    Год(а)/Лет назад: 5

    Spirea

  • rachelmidlands
    Год(а)/Лет назад: 5
    Never thought of spirea, somehow I always think of it as spring flowering shrub. Well spotted Carolina:-)
  • AMB
    Автор
    Год(а)/Лет назад: 5
    Thanks everyone!
  • Ellie
    Год(а)/Лет назад: 5

    Does look like spirea, but looks rather woody so a nice cutback might be good. I have a few different varieties of spirea in my garden and some are best cut right back to ground every year, while some you can just prune the heads off.