The flowers in the second picture have leaves which look very like those on a plant that grows in several places in our garden, and which I've been told is a Mahonia.
I'm familiar with Mahonias and I can see the resemblance - what probably isn't apparent from the photo is that the leaves on the plant in the picture are very small - where a mahonia leaf is perhaps an inch and a half across, these are barely half a centimetre, if that.
Wiki does say they're closely related to the berberis family though - well-spotted! apparently some botanists even argue that they should be conflated into one genus.
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Thank you! How's the new camera coming along?
I'm familiar with Mahonias and I can see the resemblance - what probably isn't apparent from the photo is that the leaves on the plant in the picture are very small - where a mahonia leaf is perhaps an inch and a half across, these are barely half a centimetre, if that.
Wiki does say they're closely related to the berberis family though - well-spotted! apparently some botanists even argue that they should be conflated into one genus.