What are these?

[Annpan]

When we moved here we knew very little about things that grow, it has taken us 2 years but we now can identify most of the plants in our 1/2 ace garden but...... these ones I don't know.... can anyone help and tell me if they fruit and if the said fruit is useful for anything?

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[applegirl]

We have lots of this - it looks like flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum) - bees love it in my garden but sorry it's as far as I know not edible.

(Hope this helps, I am not an expert though so could be wrong!)

[JulieSherris]

Yep, I have it too!
I also thought it was redcurrant - bud MuddyWitch burst my bubble & told me it was a flower currant & I wouldn't get proper currants....

Funny how you go off people, innit?

[Annpan]

Thanks, it does seem to be a hit with the bees

There are another 2 photos^^^^^ of different plants - don't ask me why they show up as links though

[JulieSherris]

Ann, again the piccy looks like a currant leaf - again, no idea if it's edible - might be blackcurrants, because they sometimes have grren blossom - or whitecurrant do as well ???

And the tree.... can you take a closer pic of the leaf & blossom?
It looks like our Pear trees from that distance - or could be a plum tree??

Have you seen fruit on it at all?
(Thinks: course she hasn't, else she wouldn't be asking what it was )

[Annpan]

Here is another one of the tree - and no, I didn't see any fruit on it but there might have been small berries? maybe?

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[MuddyWitch]

The first piccie looks like an edible currant, most probably black, but could be red or white. The fruits will answer that!

Really foxed on the shrub; it looks a bit like a cherry leaf & the shape is right for 'bird cherry' Prunus padus, but the flowers are wrong...I think

The third one, (like Julie's ), are flowering currant, not edible but very usefull & pretty. They flower earlier than most nectar-bearing plants, which really helps the bees, then the bees will help you later in the season.


MW