this loose limbed shrub has small beautiful purple flowers and fairly small simple green leaves, and brown/slightly red bark.
Is it a callicarpus/beautyberry variety-unpollinated? and therefore unberried.?
It arrived in the garden unbidden, in Ireland.
What can it be?
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Can we have a close up of the flowers and another of the leaves please?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
2 questions in addition to more pics.
Are those flowers on bare branches?
When was the picture taken?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Beautiful - can't see the pic very well, but looks like Chinese Meadow Rue
see here http://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/18077/Chinese-meadow-rue/Details
Billericay - Essex
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The description of 'small simple leaves' doesn't sound to me like a thalictrum aka meadow rue - looking forward to more pics
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Not a lot of bark on a thalictrum either
In the sticks near Peterborough
I dont know what it is, but I am sure it is not a Callicarpus. Flowers on these are really insignificant, you can only see them if you are right up close.
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S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
1st photo taken July 22nd 2014. very largely bare-branched.
I enclose photos of:
branch end with some flowers not fully opened like beautiful little balloons.
leaves.
base of stem: also showing what seems to be a daughter-plant very near the said stem but with white flowers that have a purple tint when seen with the naked eye.
The first of those three has a look of clematis about it at that angle, but it's hard to tell without an indication of scale etc
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
thanks, but I don't think it's a climber.