We all do it @Joyce Goldenlily - and often if it's a plant we've had for a while doing a basic job, it's easy to forget the variety as well as the plant itself. I was just wondering if, although many Viburnums and Daphnes are certainly pink flowered, or pink tinged, the flowers became quite white. V. burkwoodii is one example.
If you're absolutely sure it's white flowering, it does narrow it down as there aren't that many shrubs in flower just now, even where you are, so it rules out lots of others which are yellow flowered, or very dark pink, for example. Osmanthus burkwoodii might be flowering for you at this time of year though - it's around March onwards for me, but the buds are showing
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I see you like scent. Pittosporum tobira is one of my favourites. Nana is good if you haven't got room. I don't think they are too hardy in the UK.
I like the hedges they grow in the mediterraneum. I harvested some seed one November in Spain. They germinated well and I grew on several. I overwintered them in my cold greenhouse until they grew too big. My daughter had a big standard in a pot in a London garden, but London climate is special.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
@Bede@Joyce Goldenlily I believe lives in Cornwall so depending on where I am sure they thrive. I have two different forms P Golf Ball and also P Tom Thumb. Both are fine but I did wonder if they would survive the cold Notts temperatures before Christmas. I was interested to know that you have grown them from seed something I wouldn't have thought to try.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Just to say @Joyce Goldenlily that I have avoided mobile phones for an entire lifetime but was forced into using one over the last year. I take it to the GC because it makes a brilliant camera to photograph tickets (when there are any) and any flowers. Can't say it helps me much as I struggle to identify flowers but the writing is good
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Just to say @Joyce Goldenlily that I have avoided mobile phones for an entire lifetime but was forced into using one over the last year. I take it to the GC because it makes a brilliant camera to photograph tickets (when there are any) and any flowers. Can't say it helps me much as I struggle to identify flowers but the writing is good
I am the same. I do have an oldies phone. no camera, large buttons which lives in the bottom of my dog walking bag in case of an emergency. It is an effort to remember to charge it occasionally, bought for me by my caring daughter, I now have a personal lifeline alert thingy but do not always remember to put it on when I take the dog for a walk! Which rather defeats the object of having one. I have been mulling over changing my phone as I used to have a lovely little camera which has sadly died for no obvious reason. Yes, I have tried charging it. It is such a waste of money in my eyes as all of my close friends have died so to pay exorbitant monthly fees for something I would never or rarely use seems so wasteful.
Ah well @Joyce Goldenlily the only way my children could persuade me was to piggyback an old phone of my son-in-law's on a pay as you go basis. I no longer pay as I go so can't make calls (didn't really anyway) but I can use it to take pictures, result. Family still happy as they can call me still.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Many thanks for everyone's responses. I will post when I have been back to the GC. I have a feeling it might be a semi tender something. I have seen it for sale previously in the Duchy of Cornwall GC, they also sell the Corylopsis I have been half looking for, as well as lots of other delectables. The query plant is a woody shrub, deciduous with whorls of flowers which in form are very like a viburnum /winter jasmine type. The flowers are white with a distinctive yellow throat . No pink. It is in full flower now, allowing for the plants to have been grown under super-protected conditions. I am now getting paranoid in case my memory is wrong!
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I was just wondering if, although many Viburnums and Daphnes are certainly pink flowered, or pink tinged, the flowers became quite white. V. burkwoodii is one example.
If you're absolutely sure it's white flowering, it does narrow it down as there aren't that many shrubs in flower just now, even where you are, so it rules out lots of others which are yellow flowered, or very dark pink, for example.
Osmanthus burkwoodii might be flowering for you at this time of year though - it's around March onwards for me, but the buds are showing
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I like the hedges they grow in the mediterraneum. I harvested some seed one November in Spain. They germinated well and I grew on several. I overwintered them in my cold greenhouse until they grew too big. My daughter had a big standard in a pot in a London garden, but London climate is special.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I was interested to know that you have grown them from seed something I wouldn't have thought to try.
I do have an oldies phone. no camera, large buttons which lives in the bottom of my dog walking bag in case of an emergency. It is an effort to remember to charge it occasionally, bought for me by my caring daughter, I now have a personal lifeline alert thingy but do not always remember to put it on when I take the dog for a walk! Which rather defeats the object of having one. I have been mulling over changing my phone as I used to have a lovely little camera which has sadly died for no obvious reason. Yes, I have tried charging it. It is such a waste of money in my eyes as all of my close friends have died so to pay exorbitant monthly fees for something I would never or rarely use seems so wasteful.
I have seen it for sale previously in the Duchy of Cornwall GC, they also sell the Corylopsis I have been half looking for, as well as lots of other delectables.
The query plant is a woody shrub, deciduous with whorls of flowers which in form are very like a viburnum /winter jasmine type. The flowers are white with a distinctive yellow throat . No pink. It is in full flower now, allowing for the plants to have been grown under super-protected conditions.
I am now getting paranoid in case my memory is wrong!
Edgeworthia chrysantha?