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Are you able to identify this plant?
Hello,
Very new and inexperienced gardener here, so hope it's ok to post this.
I saw a beautiful hedge today - attached is a photo of the leaves.
Initially i thought it was a kind of box, but now I'm not sure. It was much "looser" than a box (although maybe that was how it had been pruned) with lots of long, loose branches at the top.
It just looked incredibly fresh and quite wild, in a way that many evergreen hedges don't seem to (and something that really appealed to me).
If you are able to help i would be most grateful.
For reference the top (or bottom in photo) leaf is about 4cm long.
Many thanks,
Hannah
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looks like Privet
In the sticks near Peterborough
You don't seem to see many privet hedges anymore ; a shame really as it is so tough and tolerant of drastic cutting .
And privet hedges which are left alone a bit to do their own thing have beautifully scented creamy flowers in the early summer much loved by bees and other pollinators ... their scent always reminds me of holidays in Brittany.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I love the smell of privet, I know others who hate it, it reminds me of my home in London, the Privet hedges were right along the road, they were there before I was born (that’s a very long time ago?) and they still are. And looking as green as ever. They were kept cut to about four feet, my mum used to do it with just an old pair of shears.