Shrub identification please

[GinGeum]

I have this hedge all over the place in my garden, but haven't a clue what it is. Does anyone know?

It has these sort of weird non-flowers, and then pink berries in the winter. It's evergreen.

Pink snowberry perhaps?

So spooky, I have a hedge of this stuff and I've been meaning to start a thread for ages to find out what it is!

Mine doesn't flower much (in shade) but from memory the flowers are white/pink balls. They don't look as striking as the pink snowberry but maybe that's down to a poor display.

I have a white snowberry coming through the hedge from next door and it gets everywhere.

This stuff certainly is everywhere. And seems to grow back the day after trimming

Sorry for crashing your thread!

I've been out to check and mine actually has a few flowers. I could've sworn they were ball shaped in previous years but I was wrong! Maybe the berries are pink as you say

The flowers on mine are tiny (3-4mm max) cream/pink bells.

Strange, this thread was in active and I've only just learnt what this shrub is this week as we have a tenacious hedge of this stuff too!
At least it can hold its own against all the ground elder, ivy and nettles...

I'll try attaching photos again!

I wondered if it was in the lonicera family based on leaf shape.

Oh they attached the first time d'oh!

Having looked it up, it seems Pink Snowberry isn't evergreen. I don't remember it losing leaves, but perhaps I'm remembering wrong.

If nothing else, the bees seem to be loving it. It's absolutely buzzing!

Mmm - yes , my white snowberry loses most of its leaves, but not all . Nash, just for once, I thought I had nailed it!

I think it is a Coralberry?

There is actually an app called Plantnet that has suggested this when I put in your picture and a quick google looks similar!

Oh maybe not? It says it is native to America

Mine is quite handy as it grows under a big tree (raised canopy) and creates a bit of a wildlife zone what with all the ivy trying to creep through from next door!

Any suggestions of something I could grown under/in front of it? Quite a narrow bed before it meets the lawn. I fancied something low growing with a white flower suited to dry shade/ woodland that will flower for a few months. Not too much to ask I've planted snowdrop bulbs (did nothing) and snowdrops in the green last year, here's hoping! I have hellebores dotted about (love them) but fancied something lower growing/ground cover for the spring.

It looks like cotoneaster to me.

Mine definitely loses its leaves. They nearly stayed on last winter (SE - mild). However a drop in temperature combined with strong winds saw to that. It was January before it succumbed

Ginger -Gallium odoratum ( sweet woodruff) perhaps?

Seems they are the same family at least
Symphoricarpos albus - snowberry
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus- coralberry

Definitely not cotoneaster, the leaves are bigger, softer and not waxy sorry!

Having just looked back at pictures, there are a few with sparser leaves. Not sure if that's where it got cut back hard or not, so you probably are right book - we're SE as well, so perhaps it doesn't fully lose its leaves.

Yay!

Thanks bookbook!

I'm 99% sure mine's a symphoricarpos of some description, judging by google images

As I seem to have some flowers this year (hooray for lazy pruning) I'll wait and see what kind of berries I get.