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Plant/shrub ID please

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Shepadoodle · 22/03/2024 17:32

It's gone very wiry branches covered in tiny white flowers. It's about 6ft tall with a lot of bare branches in the centre.

Plant/shrub ID please
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willowtree66 · 22/03/2024 17:35

Looks like Baby's Breath spirea, according to my plant recognition app.

MereDintofPandiculation · 22/03/2024 19:50

Is Spirea out yet?

flatwhiteinabucket · 22/03/2024 20:06

3rd one for a type of spirea

Geneticsbunny · 22/03/2024 22:28

I am really not very sure on this because I can't see foliage on the pics but I am going to put my neck out and say that it could maybe be a tree heather?

Geneticsbunny · 22/03/2024 22:31

The flowers are the wrong shape for that aren't they? Suggestion retracted.

Yamadori · 22/03/2024 22:38

Yes, I agree it's a spiraea of one variety or other.

Never heard of it being called Bride's bouquet though.

Birdh0use · 22/03/2024 22:39

Bride In Winter? But obvs is spring

Shepadoodle · 24/03/2024 19:20

Thank you all. After googling it does appear to be a tall type of spirea. It's very woody in the middle but the RHS seems to think I can fix it by cutting down 1/4 of the stems to the ground to let in more light. We've only been in our house since October and there are a lot of neglected shrubs each side of the long garden. We want to pull a lot out and make something that's less of a corridor but now it's in flower, I quite like the spirea.

There aren't many leaves but I managed to get a couple of branches with leaves emerging.

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