Any idea what this shrub is please?

[Creamegg11]

Well I’m hoping it’s a shrub and not a tree as there’s a huge high hedge planted next to it. Belongs to my neighbour.

Am worried if it’s a tree then it’s going to shade my garden and it’s planted next to the boundary fence near the house and not at the rear of the garden. Thanks

Looks like a hazel to me.

Are they photos of the same plant?

Because the second one looks like a bramble (first doesn’t)

Viburnum? Does it flower?

Second photo is a bramble.

Yes it’s from the same plant. I cut it off as it was overhanging to my side. It just shot up really quickly in the last few months.

Thornless blackberry I think, grown for the fruit, usually on wires/along fences.

Doesn’t really look like the same plant but could be a thornless bramble. Not very rampant and fairly slow growing

Second one really does look like a bramble!

Could it be a thornless blackberry? You can get them for people that want to grow blackberries as fruit plants.

It's BlackBerry/bramble/briar, sounds lovely for the fruit, but spreads quickly and is very invasive and hard to get rid of.

Hmm does look like a blackberry after googling it. I don’t mind if it’s that compared to a birch tree that someone else had mentioned. I guess I have to wait and see if it starts to bear fruit

Do they usually grow that high? It’s nearly 2m

The thornless ones are much less vigorous but the non thornless ones in my fields are easily 2m plus high, and the stems as fat as your thumb or more.

It’s a Rubus (bramble type thingy). It’s apparently thornless. I’d go for thornless loganberry. That branch will throw out fruiting branches next year - suggest you wait and see what it produces.

The normal way to grow them is to cut the fruiting canes to the ground each winter to make room for the canes that will fruit next year, so you need have no fear of being overshadowed

Certainly not hazel, viburnum. It has “leaves” I groups of 3 - they’re actually compound leaves made up of 3 leaflets. Hazel, viburnum both have simple leaves, not made up of leaflets