Please help me identify thi hedge shrub

Timo · #1 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 07:16 PM

Hi everyone,

We are buying a new house with a hedge that we can't identify. As you can see in the photo (http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ga...dge4_thumb.jpg), it has glossy (evergreen?) leaves and with clusters of insignificant small white flowers. A friend thought it could be privit but as you can see, its leaves are larger (some 1.5 x 1 inches) and glosier than normal privit ( compare size to the ivy in front of it in the photo).

We would be grateful if someone can help identify the plant.

Timo

Cazzie · #2 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 07:24 PM

You're piccy is so small I can't see it properly. Perhaps it's a young bay? Have you got a bigger picture, or can you post it bigger?

agrumpycow · #3 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 07:27 PM

As said, the picture is way to small to give an id. But privet leaves can be as large as you say. Maybe Wild Privet - Ligustrum vulgare Wild Privet (Ligustrum vulgare)

Hopefully with a bigger pic you'll get a definitive id.

JennyS · #4 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 07:48 PM

Hi Timo - if it is Privet, and picture is too small to be sure, there are several larger-leaved cultivars that are sold for hedging, including Ligustrum ovalifolium and L.japonicum.
Is there a scent/smell to the flowers?

Griselinia is another evergreen hedging shrub - shiny bright green leaves, but I've never seen it flowering....

Timo · #5 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 07:52 PM

Please accept my apologies for the small size pic. Here is a better one I hope.

Timo

Cazzie · #6 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 07:57 PM

Hmmm.... could still be a privet cultivar or indeed a dwarf lilac?

agrumpycow · #7 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 07:58 PM

Looks like a privet to me, but I'm not knowledgable enough to narrow it down to any type.

JennyS · #8 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 08:01 PM

Hi again - its privet, and I've one in the garden with the same leaves.....just been to look but the label has gone and I can't remember the exact name!

Tiggrx · #9 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 08:25 PM

Looks like Glossy Privet (Ligustrum lucidum)

naturelover · #10 (**permalink**) 31-07-2007, 08:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Timo

Hi everyone,

We are buying a new house with a hedge that we can't identify. As you can see in the photo (http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ga...dge4_thumb.jpg), it has glossy (evergreen?) leaves and with clusters of insignificant small white flowers. A friend thought it could be privit but as you can see, its leaves are larger (some 1.5 x 1 inches) and glosier than normal privit ( compare size to the ivy in front of it in the photo).

We would be grateful if someone can help identify the plant.

Timo

hi could be forsythia might be wrong.