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Plant I.D

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Hardertobreathe · 22/05/2021 11:37

An app suggests iron tree -but it looks nothing like any of the pictures I can see- or some sort of Hebe? Does any one know what it actually is please?

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Purplewithred · 22/05/2021 11:39

I’m stumped with that one but I am a bit rubbish on shrubs. How big is it? Could it be sarcocca?

Beebumble2 · 22/05/2021 11:42

Looks like one of the larger Hebes.

Beebumble2 · 22/05/2021 11:44

Looking at your photo, I get hebe seedlings growing in a similar situation.

Hardertobreathe · 22/05/2021 14:47

Purple it’s just below knee height at the moment.

Are Hebes that fast growing?

I’ve cut it down every year as assumed it was just a weed growing in front of the hedge, I just haven’t got around to trimming yet. Maybe I will leave it and see what develops.

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MereDintofPandiculation · 23/05/2021 12:00

I think Hebe - going partly from the leaves and partly from what seems to be a developing flower spike/seed head in the first picture.

Hardertobreathe · 23/05/2021 20:52

I wondered if that was going to open into a flower, there’s on on the top of each stem.

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Beebumble2 · 23/05/2021 21:12

Yes the flower cluster comes from the top of the stem, probably, white or pale purple.

Hardertobreathe · 06/06/2021 09:41

@Beebumble2 that little pod opened up to reveal more leaves but there are now two flower spikes growing either side of it. Is it still looking like a hebe?

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FindingMeno · 06/06/2021 09:43

That definitely looks like a hebe to me.

Beebumble2 · 06/06/2021 09:44

I would say so. I’ll pop out and take a photo of one similar in my garden.

Beebumble2 · 06/06/2021 09:50

The flower spikes haven come out yet, they emerge from the top two leaves.
My leaves aren’t as shiny because it’s a slightly different variety.

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Hardertobreathe · 06/06/2021 10:46

The only hebes I’ve had in previous gardens (had plant labels on them) had tiny leaves. I had no clue there were so many varieties!
Awaiting with interest to see how my flowers develop

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Beebumble2 · 06/06/2021 10:50

Should look something like this.

Beebumble2 · 06/06/2021 10:52

Photo fail!

MereDintofPandiculation · 06/06/2021 11:44

There's about 90 species of Hebe in the wild, several of those are grown in gardens, and there are different varieties within each species. Hebes rarely hybridise in the wild but there are a lot of cultivated Hebe hybrids (crosses between two or more species). There's a whole Society devoted to Hebes.

Beebumble2 · 06/06/2021 15:28

Trying photos again

Hardertobreathe · 27/06/2021 16:49

The spikes finally started flowering, I’m glad I left it this year instead of trimming it when we did the hedge it’s growing out of.

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SongsForSwingingLovers · 27/06/2021 18:13

If that’s not a hebe, I’ll eat my hat!

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