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Elaeagnus?

Last post 23-08-2008 8:02 PM by Phot's-Moll. 3 replies.

• 23/08/2008 09:42 AM

  Becky Location: Joined on: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 56

  Reply | Contact Hello I was working in a customer's garden yesterday and walked past a shrub, which to me looks like an Elaeagnus, but not quite sure, as looking it up on google all the photos there the leaves are green with yellow edges, however the one I have here is green with white edges. It sort of looks like a Cornus alba, except that the leaf is smaller and thick and tough. Do you think it is an Elaeagnus at all, or am i totally wrong? Becky, Switzerland

• 23/08/2008 12:25 PM	In reply to
  bogweevil Location: Joined on: 02 Mar 2004 Posts: 2,043	Reply | Contact I am glad you are not working in my garden - you had better post a picture quick in case your employer rumbles you. In the meantime - consider this. Note the characteristic texture and colour of the young leaf typical of eleagnus.   Boggy Beware the bat-eared bogweevil

• 23/08/2008 02:49 PM

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  Becky Location: Joined on: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 56

  Reply | Contact  Thanks Bogweevil! That picture is more or less what mine looks like (sorry, haven't got time a.t.m.to work out how to upload pictures) , what confuses me is that it is supposed to flower in autumn, but the one I have here already has little white/pinkish berries on it! As to my boss, he's more into the new-builds so spends a lot of time on his mini digger, whereas I am more interested (and responsible) in the maintenance of gardens. I asked him yesterday whether he knew what it is and he told me that it was a Cornus alba `Variegata` ;)  but I at least knew that it couldn't be that... Becky, Switzerland

• 23/08/2008 08:02 PM	In reply to
  Phot's-Moll Location: The sunny South coast. Joined on: 06 Jan 2007 Posts: 3,347	Reply | Contact  Pittosporum? Whether you think you can do a thing, or think you cannot, you are right.