By Hank
Cheshire,
United Kingdom 
Identification please
Does anyone have an idea what these are ? A couple of months ago I took 6 cuttings from a 10ft tall bush with droopy branches, having lots of small pink flowers on.
May be a kolkwitzia.
I Hope they're the right way up, I'm sending 2 pics ( I hope !) from my ipad, the first 1 one upside down and the 2nd the right way up as yet another experiment while I study Urbanite's way to do it.
Is either of them correct ?
18 Aug, 2013
Answers
and me Hywel.
18 Aug, 2013
could be fushia.
18 Aug, 2013
Yep, weigela. The ident of these two shrubs was the subject a few weeks back. Weigela is chunkier, the leaves bigger. The stems of kolkwitzia more slender, slightly finely hairy. Kolkwitzia can be 10ft or more and still look good, whereas a 10ft weigela is usually a leggy mess!
18 Aug, 2013
Tallest one looks like it has a flower bud on it, or it could be a tomato in the green house!
Looked up the RHS...
Weigela are bushy deciduous shrubs with simple, ovate leaves and small clusters of funnel-shaped white, yellow, pink or red flowers on short side shoots in late spring and summer
Kolkwitzia are deciduous shrubs with simple, opposite leaves and clusters of bell-shaped pink flowers, marked with deep yellow in the throat
Seems like y'pays y'money and y'takes y'pick!
[Top pic is upside down, bottom pic right way round - unless these are in hanging pots :o) ]
18 Aug, 2013
Thanks again guys, i'll put them in bigger pots soon. And thanks Urby, they're not hanging, so maybe my photos arrive the right way up now ? Although I'd bet someone will disagree with that !
18 Aug, 2013
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It looks like Weigelia to me.
18 Aug, 2013