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Does anyone know what this shrub is. It is growing on my field and was a pot-luck shrub purchased without labels a few years ago from a nursery. All sorts of things get planted up there. I thought it was a Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) to start with, but obviously not. Never flowered before. This year it is about 2-3 ft tall with these white flowers, approx. 2-3 inches across, no scent that I can discern.
Someone else's question on Jap. anemones reminded me to ask as these look very much like them, but it's a shrub.



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Looks like Eucryphia to me. a nice buy if it is.

27 Jun, 2021

 

found this from the RHS,
may be yours or closely related

https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/94255/Eucryphia-x-nymansensis/Details

27 Jun, 2021

 

It looks remarkably like Carpenteria californica to me, though the flowers are usually fragrant to a lesser or greater degree. It's not bone hardy though, same hardiness rating as most Hebes, H4 rhs rating, but is evergreen. Its not a common plant in gardens or garden centres either - often commonly known as bush or tree anemone

https://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/carpenteria-californica/classid.691/

27 Jun, 2021

 

Thanks Seaburn, it certainly looks like it, or very closely related. Says it eventually grows 20-50 feet, so that will be interesting, but perhaps I shall be long gone before then. Must look stunning as a large tree covered in those flowers.
One of the local nurseries used to, not sure about now, have a section where they bunged everything that was either weed infested, un-labelled, mis-shapen or just needed to be got rid of and sold them off at two for £1. Loads of things came home with me over the years, including Catalpa, Red Robin, Ceanothus, Broom, Strawberry Trees, Several different Cornus and loads more, just to plant on the field as hedges and windbreaks. This one perhaps a bit more special!

27 Jun, 2021

 

Got all excited about a 50ft tree and liked the idea Seaburn and answered before the next suggestion, but I think Bamboo might have it here. I got OH to have a whiff of the flowers and he said they have a faint scent, sense of smell in our family is not good, so asked him!
A two metre bush would be a better fit where it is on the field! Shame it's on the field and not in my garden.
A different site than the one you gave Bamboo shows the dark stems and the round ball shaped buds, so I think that's it.
Thank you both for sorting it out, I shall probably put some netting round it now to prevent the chickens half digging it up all the time, poor thing. And a label!

27 Jun, 2021

 

You're lucky to have it - it was one of my desired shrubs years back, but I never was able to get hold of one. Now I've only got a balcony, its not an option, but I think they're a lovely plant.

27 Jun, 2021

 

No worries, as I said it was just what it looked like. Glad it is going to be a better sized shrub for you.

27 Jun, 2021

 

I agree with Bamboo, Carpenteria californica was my first thought. Quite expensive shrub though. A neighbour has one in his garden but I don't think he knows what it is.

27 Jun, 2021

 

It's quite an impressive looking little shrub at the moment Bamboo and I am so pleased that I know the name of it now. Perhaps you could enlighten your neighbour Jimmytheone, or is he the type that doesn't want help?

28 Jun, 2021

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