What is this divine smelling shrub?

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Just that ... and hope the photo attaches!

It's viburnum. They are lovely.

Thank you @JulieHoney, would you or anyone know if it is a particular variation or does it root easily if I took a snip and tried to get it going with roofing powder. Bit of a novice here!

Here you go - https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/viburnum/growing-guide

Thanks again, so helpful

There are different ones. Can you download one of the plant identifier apps?

If you do that and get a name I would appreciate you naming it. My Grandma's viburnum doesn't really smell unless you bury your nose in it, and yours looks prettier too.

There are quite a lot of different ones. I have a viburnum Carlessii which smells ravishing but isn’t quite out yet. Definitely worth tracking down a specialist supplier https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/nurseries-search-result off the RHS list - I think mine came from Bluebell or Burncoose but it was many many years and two gardens ago. (I’ve dug it up and moved it and it’s still going strong). Many of them don’t root from cuttings well and mine is grafted onto a rootstock so you may have to splash the cash. But well worth it.

Roofing powder ain't going to work! 🤣

Viburnum fragrantissima (I think). Smells like carnations. Does well from cuttings.

Viburnum Bodnantense Dawn is very scented.

This smell of this one reminds me of lilac, good call re previous poster re downloading plant finder app and if I find out I will come back to you. Thanks all for your help.

Viburnum x burkwoodii is out at the moment and can scent a whole garden. It’s a hybrid of V carlesii and V utile, and flowers earlier than V carlesii.

It’s even more scented than V bodnantense, which flowers in the winter.

Just be careful with viburnum because they can grow very vigorously and their roots can be ferocious.

We planted one too close to the house (whoops) and it caused subsidence. The man sent by the insurers to determine the cause was finding viburnum roots two metres below the ground.

Wow! That is a useful warning - thanks.

Wow! Thanks for the useful warning. I was just thinking it would look good in my spring bed, right by the house!

I should add that we have very clay-y soil, which is prone to subsidence from plants because they suck out all the water. Yours may be different and maybe a viburnum would be fine, who can say?

But it's funny how much variation there can be in root systems. All the viburnums we took out had massive deep woody taproots, whereas when we uprooted a big, wide mile -a-minute shrub (false jasmine), it only had a tiny little fibrous rootball.

The false jasmine is presumably a climber so it doesn’t need as much energy as it would to create tough, self supporting, woody stems, nor does it need a deep tap rootto anchor it against wind.

Ours has delusions of being a tree, and needs cutting back hugely, it also seems to self seed. I haven't tried cuttings, we have enough!