Please help id shrubs and tree

6 years ago

I need to do some pruning and hoping someone can tell me what I have so that I can research proper methods. The two types of shrub are full on the outside and very bare on the indside so I'm guessing just shearing off the outside isn't the way to go.

1. This shrub

Closer up:

2 this shrub (it's the same all along the fence, at least 8 feet high)

3 this tree

Closer up:

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floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK

6 years ago

So I stand by my two suggestions. 1. appears to be Euonymus slats insofar as I believe I can see the corky growths on the stems. The other does indeed appear to be Syringa reticulata but I hope someone who knows that plant personally can verify.

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whitewatervol (Z 8a/7b Upstate SC)
6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
1. Kind of looks like loropetalum but I'm not sure it is hardy in zone 5.

2. Picture is too far away from the plant.

3. Looks like some kind of Dogwood (Cornus species)
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Marium
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6 years ago
last modified: 6 years ago
Thanks! For number 1., it's probably not loropetalum because it doesn't have those kind of flowers. Earlier this year, it had bunches of small white flowers. Here is a close up of what's left behind of the flowers:

For number two, here they are close up they also had white flowers
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floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
6 years ago
1. looks like a Euonymus. Can't be Lorpetalum because it has opposite leaves.

2. I have never seen Japanese Tree Lilac in the flesh but I wondering if that is what you have. Are the flowers going over now? Were they denser and whiter before? I cant see if the leaves are alternate or opposite.
Marium
Original Author
6 years ago
Regarding number 2 the leaves are opposite. The flowers were much denser and whiter. Now they are sting up and falling off. Here's a photo of some that's now drying up
Virginia White
6 years ago
I think floral_uk is on the right track - Euonymous alatus, Syringa (but I believe vulgaris - the reticulatas I've dealt with have a slightly different leaf) and probably the small tree is Cornus alternifolia, a dogwood.

Do beware of pruning the dogwood now. Late fall and winter are infinitely better when it's dormant. The sap it will bleed now is a great attractant for insects and disease. Otherwise, the Euonymus and the Syringa would be fine to prune now.

Ging
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NHBabs z4b-5a NH
6 years ago
I agree with all 3 of ging's ID. Be aware that the Euonymus may be invasive in your area; meaning that birds eat the tiny berries and then deposit the seeds where ever they fly. Dropped seed will sprout also, so you (and your neighbors) will be pulling up volunteers in many places in the yard based on what I see here.
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