Is this a lilac?

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• Yviestevie Posts: 7,066

  June 2019

  Not lilac leaves are wrong. 

  Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  June 2019

  That looks like Privet to me
  
  Lingustrum ovalifolium. I love the smell of the flowers ... they remind me of holidays in Brittany where the hedges are full of them ... to the huge benefit of the bees 😊 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• *Astrantia* Posts: 307

  June 2019

  Ohhh I did want to say privet but didn’t want to seem stupid when it wasn’t! I thought privet had smaller round leaves and smaller flowers, only because where I used to live the old boy next door had a privet hedge and a lovely front garden sadly he passed away the house was sold & the young couple who bought the house dig up the garden & gravelled it over for more parking & dig up the hedge & put in a wall , I remember the sparrows always nesting in the hedge.

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