sweetpea you can prune shrubs to a single stem so they look like trees. It works OK, you can plant things in front and if there's not much space you can still get by them
ANyone think it could be a tamarisk (can't see picture very well) but flowers tend to be paler lilac rather than deep purple, I think it flowers a bit later than this time of year here (Yorkshire)
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If it is the one I think you are indicating it looks very much like ceanothus. Google it and see if that fits.
It could be, that's a likely place for one.
sweetpea you can prune shrubs to a single stem so they look like trees. It works OK, you can plant things in front and if there's not much space you can still get by them
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ANyone think it could be a tamarisk (can't see picture very well) but flowers tend to be paler lilac rather than deep purple, I think it flowers a bit later than this time of year here (Yorkshire)
2nd thoughts no, not if it's the one nearer the house, behind the 'round' clipped one?
Forester! Yes! You've saved me from taking a photo of it! It looks just like this, but smaller http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i143/vpomajzl/100_3496.jpg
It's absolutely gorgeous!
Off to research into it now!
You guys never fail to impress me, getting the right plant via a scrubby, blurry old street map image... Wow!
It appears to be a ceanothus shrub with its dark gloss leaves and blue flowers.Definately not a tree
Glad you've sorted it, I knew I'd be wrong, too early for lilac I think
Well done all 
Oh, so it is a shrub? I missed that bit LOL, easy done Sweetpea and I would make exactly the same mistake if it looked like a tree