Flowering Shrub ID please

[Chris11]

Can anyone ID this shrub? Thanks

Pictures taken today.

[veggiechicken]

Is it one of the many Weigela?

Maybe this? https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/91392/...pureis/Details

[Guest]

What VC says

[Chris11]

Is it one of the many Weigela?

Maybe this? https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/91392/...pureis/Details

Thanks VC, that definitely looks like the answer

[veggiechicken]

Weigela was on my mind as I'd just been watching the bees on mine - they love it

[Chris11]

Weigela was on my mind as I'd just been watching the bees on mine - they love it

Yes, the bees love mine too

[Chris11]

Ok, here's another one I don't know the name of.

Yellow flowers leading to some sort of berry formation like the second pic.

[veggiechicken]

Its a Hypericum - various types, commonly having red berries and yellow flowers.

[Chris11]

Its a Hypericum - various types, commonly having red berries and yellow flowers.

Thanks VC, I did wonder about that as my own best guess

I've also got a different Hypericum in another part of the garden that's probably a St John's Wort 'Hidcote'.

This one's different, and I'd still like to know what variety of Hypericum it might be, but I can see the similarities.

[farendwoman]

I have a similar, but not the same, Hypericum. It came from a seed mix called “Magical Berries” some years ago.
It’s brilliant as a cut flower, but I have to strip the leaves because they tend to look “rusty”.

[veggiechicken]

Here's mine - the berries change from red to black. Its just a wild one that's appeared.

[Scarlet]

I’ve a few but the dry weather has killed some off - not sure they will come back


Also have some with a variegated leaf - tricolour - cream that’s tingled with pink. It looks lovely in a vase topped with bright green berries. Though I’m not keen when the berries have gone over black.


They grow like weeds and self seed everywhere!

[farendwoman]

Here's mine - the berries change from red to black. Its just a wild one that's appeared.

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Lovely healthy looking plant. Wish mine was like this, I wouldn’t have to spend ages cutting off all the rusty diseased leaves when I want to put some in a bunch.