Smelly shrub/small tree needs IDing, please!
Hi! So my mum has a shrub/small tree (it's around 10ft tall and 3ft wide) in her garden, and she'd really like to know what it is exactly. I'm not there at the minute myself, but she tells me it smells quite bad (I think she described it as a sort of smokey smell). There are small cream and/or white flowers. The leaves are serrated, and between 2.5 and 3.5 inches long. It has what appears to be bindweed on it, but we don't know what the tree/shrub itself is.
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Thank you, pansyface! Not a wine person myself, but I might try that recipe!! However (and this might seem a bit odd); I've been told that in the 15 years it's been there it's never had berries on it. Could it still be an elderberry bush?
I love elders. I named my garden after them. Stinky but lovely. Every last part is medicinal, the flowers and berries are edible and they have a huge body of legend and folklore on them. They are weeds, but noble weeds. Please take care of your bush
The birds pick off the berries on my trees as soon as they begin to ripen, so maybe you don't get time to see them!