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Please help identify this shrub

AlibgoodAlibgood Posts: 12
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I moved house last year, the garden was an absolute jungle but I’ve been uncovering some hidden gems.  This one, very big like the others but flowering now and smells lovely, more noticeable in the evening. The flowers look like small bells and from a distance they looks like clouds covering the branches as the flowers are tiny.  The leaves are quite light green and not glossy.  It’s deciduous and the flowers followed shortly after the appearance of the leaves. 

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    looks like an Eleagnus Quicksilver - a lovely shrub, mine is in  flower too

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • AlibgoodAlibgood Posts: 12
    Thanks Pete8.  I was going to say the flowers looked different, however since yesterday the bells are now opening up to reveal 4 petals, so think you are right.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    edited May 2018
    I've just had a trundle down the garden, and have to confess now I'm not so sure it is Quicksilver.
    Here's a couple of pics of mine - I'm not sure it's the same..



    I'll try and get a better photo a bit later when the sun is in a better position for photos

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Here's a couple of pics just taken - see what you think



    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    the OP looks like Eleagnus umbellata. Quicksilver my be  cultivar of that


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Thanks nut!

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • AlibgoodAlibgood Posts: 12
    Clearer pics now flowers are out.  Most of them are pure white and v tiny (my hand also for perspective!)
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    I think it's as nut said - Eleagnus umbellata
    a pic here-
    https://www.ct-botanical-society.org/Plants/view/185


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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