What Is This

I'm usually on the ball with flower's and such but this shrub has slung me.. it is drab and has tiny bell like pink/purple flower's that i was alerted too by the wasp activity around them several week's ago.. the wasp's are now leaving it alone but the bees love it...(maybe because i'm killing them lol)

Anyway you bee keeping Botanists what is it..lol



She loves it

Snowberry?

Nope not that i'm aware of ..Snow in summer has load's of white berries.. thankyou though.

Check out Abelia Grandiflora the flowers don't seem quite right but it might be a variety trait.

CVB

Don't know but there is a good App called Like that garden which you taker a photo of the flower then it cross references the photo with its bank of photos

It looks like a bush I have which I asked about in here a couple of years ago and the consensus was Symphoricarpos orbiculatus aka coral berry. Mine produces pale pink berries after flowering. Very easy to strike cuttings and attracts many insects including bumblebees honeybees hoverflies and jaspers.
Strangely this year the bumblebees have been all over it for weeks but it's only had honeybees find it in the last few days.

EKBee said:

Snowberry?

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I have found out what it is from my friend and you where correct it is a type of snow berry but not the white variety i was thinking about.. Thank you..

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=m460

Whatever it is they are fantastic pics!

mazzamazda said:

Whatever it is they are fantastic pics!

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Don't tell me it was taken on a phone!

Thank you .. i took the pictures on one of them throw away holiday camera's.. lol

I was just looking at bees on this shrub behind my house,came in to read the forum and noticed it was the same plant.

Brilliant.. these forum's are a wonderful invention for spreading educational information..

Thank you so much; I like Tim S' certainty about coral berry ... I will check the plant more closely and do an online comparison between coral berry and snow berry. Thanks for all the feedback and yes, Millet, those pics were fantastic!

Let us know what colour the berries are! There should be plenty with all those girls a-buzzin'

The Berries from my picture's turned out to be white so sorry for doubting the kind folk who suggested snow berry to start with.. and thank's for any positive helpful information from everyone else..