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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?

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!)

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?

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

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 )

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?

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