unidentified shrub

[lalilala]

Hi can anyone identify this shrub. Oh any tips on adding photo!!!

[lalilala]

[ACE]

 We can still do it cause we is clever, is it a green one?

[ACE]

What colour is the flower?

[ACE]

i love a challenge, how tall is it.

[ACE]

Come on people give me a hand. My first guess is a budlea as they appear from no where.

[lalilala]

It has a woody base, with new shoots this year, Leaves are green with reddiish tinge to the edges. the flower buds are  forming in the middle of a fan of leaves. I think they are going to be yellow. It had black berries last autum.

[Duke Ellington]

God this is so funny!! My OH is wondering why I am laughing so much and crying at the same time!! Its probably a blackberry.

[Unwashed]

Shiny, spiky leaves?

[lalilala]

Noo, it is not a blackberry!!! It has paperish dull leaves,

[Jeannine]

Elderberry? XX Jeannine

[Unwashed]

I was thinking Mahonia.  Now I'm thinking Garrya Elliptica.

[lalilala]

ok I have just hunted again through my RHS encyclopedia. No luck. I will get back to you guys if I have any luck with some more searches. Thanks for youe efforst. Keep thinking! x

[small]

Hypericum, undoubtedly.

[carosanto]

I'll go with small, Hypericum by the sound of it.

Regards, Caro

[lalilala]

I am still on the case of downloading the photo! Duke Ellington being very patient!

[gwynnethmary]

it sounds like the one in the corner of my garden that a bird brought!  Hope you find out soon so that I'll know what mine is!

[gwynnethmary]

Just read back- hypericum does ring a bell- we did have one similar in a previous garden and I think tht's what it was called!

[lalilala]

Hi - I have managed to get some photos downloaded, but started another link. Unidentified shrub-2.Have a look and see what you think.