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1 hour ago, stateside said:

Lovely Garden.

You're just the person to help me identify my hedge. It's in flower now and will be full of fruit in the summer. They're like small plums, that start green then turn yellow, then reddish. Some say they are quince, but not sure about that.  I'll put up some photos of the fruit when it appears.

Thanks Kev

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Tattoo Dave should know. 

 

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4 hours ago, stateside said:

Lovely Garden.

You're just the person to help me identify my hedge. It's in flower now and will be full of fruit in the summer. They're like small plums, that start green then turn yellow, then reddish. Some say they are quince, but not sure about that.  I'll put up some photos of the fruit when it appears.

Thanks Kev

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Do you want an answer from someone with a degree in botany?

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6 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

Well he doesn't want an answer from a dumb ass like me Dave!

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I feel loathed to tell anyone what it is, though it is quite common, and now available in many forms with both coloured flowers and leaves.  Makes a nice bonsai too

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3 minutes ago, TattooDave said:

I feel loathed to tell anyone what it is, though it is quite common, and now available in many forms with both coloured flowers and leaves.  Makes a nice bonsai too

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Is it a Spirita Auguta Dave? It would be an amazing coincidence if it was and I'm only guessing that because I've been looking at getting one for my garden.

 

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5 minutes ago, Peter99 said:

Is it a Spiraea arguta Dave? It would be an amazing coincidence if it was and I'm only guessing that because I've been looking at getting one for my garden.

 

No Peter, if you want a clue it's a Prunus

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10 minutes ago, TattooDave said:

Tattoo Dave does know!!

I knew that you would know!

LOL

Just slicing some limes and lemons for my Vodka and Tonic evening - a little rub of lime around the rim of the glass. I'm posh I am - and I'm off work tomorrow! The amp beckons too. 

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1 minute ago, Peter99 said:

I knew that you would know!

LOL

Just slicing some limes and lemons for my Vodka and Tonic evening - a little rub of lime around the rim of the glass. I'm posh I am - and I'm off work tomorrow! The amp beckons too. 

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Nice one, if you ever get near a market that sell candied fruit/ nuts etc. Get some candied green grapefruit rind, it's wonderful in gin or vodka.  I'm just off out with the dog, hoping not to gash my leg open like I did Friday night in the process.

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15 hours ago, Peter99 said:

I knew that you would know!

LOL

Just slicing some limes and lemons for my Vodka and Tonic evening - a little rub of lime around the rim of the glass. I'm posh I am - and I'm off work tomorrow! The amp beckons too. 

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Don`t forget the sprig of mint I told you about! :wink:

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25 minutes ago, stateside said:

Thanks Dave, I already have one so I'm not looking to get another. My neighbour has a tree that is the same but it bears no fruit. Maybe PM me if you want to keep it a secret :-)

Kev

It's certainly not a quince, true quince wouldn't grow well in the UK.  Have PM'd you to see if anyone has the courage to guess.

Dave

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23 hours ago, baz1 said:

Its my living pete so it would be shamefull not to have a nice garden me thinks :wicked: thanks for the comments cos that keeps me doin what I do best xx

It is Baz, that's a lovely graden mate!

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Just now, Widnes63 said:

Dave did you give us a clue in Latin ?  Is it a Prune ?

Prunus is the genus name for the cherry, almond, peach, apricot, nectarine and plum, and the common name for the hedging plant is a combination of two of them, if I have to give anymore clues I'll be telling you what it is.

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6 minutes ago, TattooDave said:

Prunus is the genus name for the cherry, almond, peach, apricot, nectarine and plum, and the common name for the hedging plant is a combination of two of them, if I have to give anymore clues I'll be telling you what it is.

Damson ?

 

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Just now, TattooDave said:

Same family, that is Prunus domestica, but you can make jams and jellies with this fruit too.

My dad makes jam from the fruit on his allotment, Plum, Damson, Strawberry, Redcurrant and Rhubarb, i'm running out of ideas:lol:

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11 hours ago, TattooDave said:

Same family, that is Prunus domestica, but you can make jams and jellies with this fruit too.

Prunus cerasus (Linne) The Jam might taste a bit bitter though?

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Just now, Widnes63 said:

My dad makes jam from the fruit on his allotment, Plum, Damson, Strawberry, Redcurrant and Rhubarb, i'm running out of ideas:lol:

This is a British native, and comes in quite a few cultivars now, some with purple leaves and fruit.  The common name is a combination of two fruit names, as in blackberry apple, but obviously not that, I'm not wanting to give anymore away, I was hoping there'd be someone with a decent plant knowledge on here other than me and Suze.

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1 minute ago, TattooDave said:

Very close, the first five letters of your specific are correct, so nearly there.

That would make it cerasifera. 

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2 minutes ago, BabyBoyAndMyLass said:

That would make it cerasifera. 

Well done that man, known as cherry plum, and has a variety that is grown a lot in the US that is known as the Pissard plum, always makes me titter.  It's fun to exercise the grey matter at times, incidentally, the Spanish for cherry is cereza, what a small world.

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11 hours ago, TattooDave said:

Well done that man, known as cherry plum, and has a variety that is grown a lot in the US that is known as the Pissard plum, always makes me titter.

What do I win?

I'm not an expert on Botany or Aboriculture, when I worked in the conservation industry I would employ a Botanist on every site assessment. I was a consultant Ecologist, specialising in Entomology and Taxonomy, if it is known to science I can identify every Zoological specimen to Generic level, I can identify Arthropods down to specific level and subspecific level in many cases.

I have an MSc in Systematics and Applied Taxonomy.

My work was based around RDBs. 

I now restore early Land-Rovers and am a professional musician.

I knew I was on the right lines with the sour cherry as it's a common hedge species.

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1 minute ago, TattooDave said:

Well done that man, known as cherry plum, and has a variety that is grown a lot in the US that is known as the Pissard plum, always makes me titter.

I have to say, I am very impressed Dave. Having been in this house for 22 years I've seen walkers picking the fruit and eating it and yet when questioned they haven't been sure what it was they were eating. My wife is a keen gardener, but her knowledge tends to be centred around flowers. I must have asked 20 people over the years and no one knew. Well done that man and Thanks.

Kev

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1 minute ago, BabyBoyAndMyLass said:

What do I win?

I'm not an expert, when I worked for English Nature (to my great shame and disgrace) I would employ a Botanist on every site assessment. I was a consultant Entomologist, aside from the disgrace of working for EN though, I did work for CABI Bioscience at one point, I now restore early Land Rovers!

I knew I was on the right lines with the sour cherry as it's a common hedge species.

You win the praise and adoration of those less noble!!

The Prunus genus is vast, and as I did a two year stint in Japan late 1980 - mid 1983 I saw a lot of cherry blossom and have had bonsai from trees within the species, I'm now looking for a wild plum whilst in Spain that I can dig up and eventually turn into a bonsai. 

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7 minutes ago, stateside said:

I have to say, I am very impressed Dave. Having been in this house for 22 years I've seen walkers picking the fruit and eating it and yet when questioned they haven't been sure what it was they were eating. My wife is a keen gardener, but her knowledge tends to be centred around flowers. I must have asked 20 people over the years and no one knew. Well done that man and Thanks.

Kev

At one time I could have probably told you what it's called in Japan too, but my mind is full of other guff and I forget these things that never crop up in civilised conversation.  I probably know more about trees that anything, having started growing bonsai at the age of 12.  Having thought about it the Japanese for cherry blossom is sakura, and plum is mume, I know that Prunus cerasifera doesn't grow there, so they probably have no name for it, so I shall call it sakura mume.

Dave

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7 minutes ago, BabyBoyAndMyLass said:

What do I win?

I'm not an expert, when I worked for English Nature (to my great shame and disgrace) I would employ a Botanist on every site assessment. I was a consultant Entomologist, aside from the disgrace of working for EN though, I did work for CABI Bioscience at one point, I now restore early Land Rovers!

I knew I was on the right lines with the sour cherry as it's a common hedge species.

Ah English Nature. Now that's an organisation I have done battle with. Living opposite a SSSI. Designated as lowland heathland, it is being overrun by self seeded silver birch and ultimately they will give way to oak. The trees are are stunting the growth of the heathers and selfishly, from my perspective, eroding the view of the estuary and whilst EN accept this and are cutting trees down elswhere on the site, they won't cut them down in front of us. Despite us offering to pay for the work. I have negotiated with 4 different officers over 4 years and just at the point when I thought I was getting somewhere, they left or were re-posted to a different part of the country. I presume your great shame and disgrace was employing a Botanist, not the fact that you worked for EN:thumbsup:

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8 minutes ago, stateside said:

Ah English Nature. Now that's an organisation I have done battle with. Living opposite a SSSI. Designated as lowland heathland, it is being overrun by self seeded silver birch and ultimately they will give way to oak. The trees are are stunting the growth of the heathers and selfishly, from my perspective, eroding the view of the estuary and whilst EN accept this and are cutting trees down elswhere on the site, they won't cut them down in front of us. Despite us offering to pay for the work. I have negotiated with 4 different officers over 4 years and just at the point when I thought I was getting somewhere, they left or were re-posted to a different part of the country. I presume your great shame and disgrace was employing a Botanist, not the fact that you worked for EN:thumbsup:

Get yourself some copper nails Kev and drive several into the trees that are blocking your view, they'll die after a few years, and no-one will know why.

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13 minutes ago, stateside said:

. I presume your great shame and disgrace was employing a Botanist, not the fact that you worked for EN:thumbsup:

Completely the reverse of this.

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10 hours ago, TattooDave said:

Get yourself some copper nails Kev and drive several into the trees that are blocking your view, they'll die after a few years, and no-one will know why.

Rabbits are well known for ring-barking seedling trees, you can tell when Rabbits have done it because it's low-down and it isn't neat.

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1 hour ago, HARRY CROSBY said:

A lovely morning this morning. We are back to our adventures me and Rosie (my beloved smooth fox terrier). Finding out new walks, not far from our house, lovely one this morning, through the woods and down onto the beach at Horden. The national trust have done a marvellous job, cleaning up the beaches round here, as it was all coal on the beaches from the days of heavy industry up here. Sadly those days have gone, but in their wake, has been left some stunning scenery and walks. Been out 3 hours, a lovely spring day, woods full of birdsong.

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Smashing!

 

 

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5 hours ago, HARRY CROSBY said:

A lovely morning this morning. We are back to our adventures me and Rosie (my beloved smooth fox terrier). Finding out new walks, not far from our house, lovely one this morning, through the woods and down onto the beach at Horden. The national trust have done a marvellous job, cleaning up the beaches round here, as it was all coal on the beaches from the days of heavy industry up here. Sadly those days have gone, but in their wake, has been left some stunning scenery and walks. Been out 3 hours, a lovely spring day, woods full of birdsong.

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Great photos Harry, do you and waggy tail a world of good all that sea air too. I love Durham Coastline.  I intend to walk it in summer. Take care xxx Suz 

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