Name of tree

[Littleguggi]

Can anyone help to identify the name of this tree which has started to bloom these beautiful purple buds/flowers (I don't even know what to do with all them!)

Hebe

How big is it? Hebe, buddliah, bottle brush plant?

Hebe perhaps (the leaves aren't right for a buddleia). Or it could be Ceanothus, there's lots of varieties available here, some of them grow quite big

Or Edna. That's a good name for a tree

I would say a hebe. How big is it? Some hebes are quite big, but I wouldn’t put them in tree category. Although some people call shrubs, trees.

It's nothing like a ceanothus - flower shape, colour and foliage are all wrong. Flower shape and foliage are wrong for buddleia, too.

I think it's a hebe - this one looks very straggly and overgrown and, although I always think of hebe as a smallish shrub, I've learnt from these threads that they can get pretty big.

Hebe. ComeBackintotheGardenMaud has explained why.

Hello, Dint. Knew you'd be here sooner rather than later!

Thanks guys, I've got some better pictures this morning! It's about 6ft high. I agree it's very straggly and overgrown looking, probably why I thought it was a tree!! Do you reckon I should cut it right back once the blooms have died?

Can anyone help to identify the name of this tree which has started to bloom these beautiful purple buds/flowers (I don't even know what to *call them!)

Sorry, its not 6ft, more like 10-12ft by my husbands calculations!

I still think it's a hebe - at least I can't think of anything that's a better fit - but I've never heard of one reaching 10+ ft!

I've seen a Crape Myrtle in the USA which is a bit like this. But you would need to be in the south of the country for it to survive I think.
I doubt it's a jacaranda.
It's most like a buddleia.

Am sure that's a hebe, it looks very much like our big one. Same leaves (glossy green?) and very similar flowers. Ours is also pretty enormous and would be more so if not pruned. (There is a massive variety of hebes, from teeny to huge and with various shapes of flowers!).

Apparently hebes don't like being pruned too hard and are liable to freak out and die if you cut too much at once. The recommendation I believe is to cut about 1/3 of the stems each year, down to the ground (or as low down as possible); or if it has one big main trunk, I'd probably cut 1/3 of the branches off each time instead - start with the oldest, thickest stems; you can also cut out any dead or damaged bits at the same time. I think they are usually meant to be pruned after they finish flowering.

Then next year you cut another 1/3 (again starting with the oldest remaining bits), and the following year another, by which time it should be looking much neater.

That's great thanks guys!!

@ahagwearsapointybonnet thank you so much for the pruning advice!

I don't want to shout, but if you look at the photos it really is nothing like a buddleia - both flowers and leaves are the wrong shape.

It looks like a Hebe but I have never known one to grow that bid.

Still Hebe. I don't think it's 12 foot, but mine's certainly a good 3ft taller than I am.

It's a bit like this, right? Which says it can grow up to 2m (and probably more if it's been growing unpruned for a while).

www.thompson-morgan.com/p/hebe-midsummer-beauty/56830tm

Hebe are low growing shrubs.

@Littleguggi download plant net and give that a go. I just found out that my false goats beard isn't the false goats beard I thought it was.

Spirea might be a tree to bark up.

Hebe are low growing shrubs.

Some of them are; some are much larger. There used to be some pretty big hebes on the cliff above the prom where I grew up, I'd always vaguely assumed the compact varieties were a new innovation and large was the norm.

Wiki tells me 'The plants range in size from dwarf shrubs to small trees up to 7 metres,' - that's over 20 feet!

The OPs shrub is a big hebe.