Best Amazon Prime Day deals: Mumsnet favourites

Best Amazon Prime Day deals:
Mumsnet favourites

Shop now

Please or to access all these features

Gardening

Find tips and tricks to make your garden or allotment flourish on our Gardening forum.

identifying a shrub

5 replies

gingeroots · 14/04/2016 09:16

without a picture Blush .I know I'm stupid and should learn and get a new phone but I can't take or post pictures .

anyway - shrub seen yesterday in garden up ( main road ,London ) the road has slender ,arching branches covered in tiny clusters of white flowers .Not too big ,about 3 ft ?

I think it's flowering on the bare wood ,before the leaves .Will check that detail when I go out today .

I have googled but not succesful so far .

OP posts:
GeorgeTheThird · 14/04/2016 09:17

Syringa?

bookbook · 14/04/2016 09:56

Could it be any of these?
Viburnum x bodnantense ,
Amelanchier,
Chaenomeles

bookbook · 14/04/2016 10:17

or Spirea?

GeorgeTheThird · 14/04/2016 11:44

Spirea. That's what I meant!

gingeroots · 14/04/2016 16:18

Thank you so much for the suggestions .

it's not the viburnum ,could be spirea or flowering quince ..

I'm not sure - there are no leaves and the flowers are v small ,it's v light and airy .Not thick clusters of flowers .

The branches are reddish and it looks very much as though it was once a much larger bush which has been cut back .

OP posts:
New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread