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Can anyone identify this plant, please?

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MrsHemsworth · 13/06/2022 21:05

We've recently moved into a new house and the garden is full of lovely plants and trees. We're struggling to identify this one and it's already grown so much just in the short time we've been here. Just wondering whether it's something worth keeping.
Thanks!

Can anyone identify this plant, please?
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MrsHemsworth · 13/06/2022 21:06

Apologies for posting the picture sideways!

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OllyBJolly · 13/06/2022 21:08

My app says it’s Himalayan Honeysuckle

Beebumble2 · 13/06/2022 21:59

Yes definitely Leycesteria Formosa, ‘Himalayan Honeysuckle’. It grows very quickly each summer, but if you want to keep it manageable cut it down each spring and it will grow up again.
It does tend to seed everywhere, but the seedlings are easily identifiable and pulled out.

MrsHemsworth · 14/06/2022 07:02

Thank you both. That's really helpful.

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Dilbertian · 16/06/2022 19:57

Leicesteria Formosa has a lovely and unusual flower, that looks particularly good after the berries start forming. Each cluster of flowers grows out of the previous cluster, as the earlier clusters turn into berries. So you end up with flowers hanging from small berries hanging from larger dark get berries and so on. Also the bees like it. I don't think anything eats the berries, though.

Can anyone identify this plant, please?
Dilbertian · 16/06/2022 19:59

That photo was taken just now. In a few weeks the flower bunches will be twice as long.

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