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what is this shrub?
Robert Fleming
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Robert Fleming
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Privet?
Do the flowers have any smell? Privet flowers have quite a sweetish distinctive smell.
The other day I walked passed a privet hedge which was in flower. It took me back to my childhood when lots of people had privet hedges. I think they have gone out of fashion now.
It looks like privet to me
In the sticks near Peterborough
The scent of privet flowers always takes me back to a holiday in Brittany where the privet hedges were high and full of flowers and buzzing insects - I know some people loathe the smell, but I love it
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I would go for Ligustrum ovalifolium, the hedging privet, nauseating smell , makes me heave, I cross the road to avoid flowering privets.
That's good Invicta, I thought it was just me that hated the smell.
Philadelphus much the same
In the sticks near Peterborough
Not keen on Philadelphus but no where near as bad as privet. I also dislike the musty smell of Prunus padus the Bird Cherry.