Thanks, Janet. I've been looking at images but find that it's difficult to get an exact match...I'll check those. There are a lot of cotoneasters and I've managed to ignore them through the years, so they're quite alien to me. The tiny leaf one is dark and 'coppery' colored and I see that there are either root suckers or seedlings that have been coming up around them. I'm trying to decide whether or not I like these things and will work with them or chop them out. There are two and through the years someone has tried to chop them into squares, so I've just cut them back to the ground to see if I will like them once they've regained a natural form. There are also two of the huge gray cotoneasters..the one to the side of the property I like as it blends into a 'wild' area. The one in the front I don't care for...mostly I suppose becaus of the way it's been trimmed. I would most likely take it out, but have read that it's really, really difficult to take out (should have done it when the backhoe was here)...and also I find it difficult to remove something that has such a large 'presence' in an otherwise mostly bare area.
This is the 'wild' one, the second pic is the one in the front of the property...
