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Help me identify our 'bee tree'

37 replies

MonaChopsis · 15/06/2019 15:41

Hiya; we have an amazing tree in our garden that the bumblebees love, but sadly it is going to be cut down in the next year or two. I'd like to plant another one in a better place, so the bees won't be too deprived!! Can anyone tell me what it is?

Help me identify our 'bee tree'
Help me identify our 'bee tree'
OP posts:
Beetie1 · 16/06/2019 23:10

I think it looks like my neighbours tree which I believe is a cotoneaster cornubia.

Heratnumber7 · 16/06/2019 23:13

It's not elderflower is it?

MrsBertBibby · 17/06/2019 06:48

Not elderflower. Bees don't much like elder, it's very much bottom of the list. They'll take it if there's nothing else available.

TeaKettleBell · 17/06/2019 06:56

I agree with photinia, looks v like one.

Manderley7205 · 17/06/2019 07:17

I think it's Portuguese Laurel which is in flower now.

Beetie1 · 17/06/2019 09:25

A link to a cotoneaster cornubia which has a picture that I think is very similar to the OPs pic.

www.squiresgardencentres.co.uk/shop/products/plants/trees/cotoneaster-cornubia-.html

BiscuitDrama · 17/06/2019 09:29

Are you sure you can’t just prune it?

Sofasurfingsally · 17/06/2019 09:51

Abelia, possibly.

MereDintofPandiculation · 17/06/2019 09:54

I think it's Portuguese Laurel which is in flower now. But portuguese laurel has its flowers in dangling racemes, not umbel-like heads like this. And not elderberry which has compound leaves made up of separate leaflets.

Leaf veins are very clear on Cotoneaster cornubia, and they're not in the OPs photo, so I don't think it's that.

Footle · 17/06/2019 12:36

This is a photinia.
There is a thornless pyracantha, which might be what you have. Bees adore ceanothus, if you want another suggestion.

Help me identify our 'bee tree'
ErrolTheDragon · 17/06/2019 12:47

Footle may have it - some of these photos look quite similar.

plantsam.com/pyracantha-coccinea/

klynnurseries.com/product/pyracantha-coccinea-thornless/

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