What is this scented hedge plant?

[cointos]

Smells lovely and is taller than me (so easily over 5ft). I want to buy more to surround a seating area in the garden but I have no idea what it is.

Looks like choisya, smells beautiful 😍

Yeah, Choisya Mexican orange/mock orange - not to be confused with philadelphus mock orange!

Thank you both! It really does smell beautiful. I'm in love with it

Is it a Choisya or an Osmanthus? Looking at the leaves, I’d say the latter (Choisya leaves look narrower and more pointy).

https://www.gardeningexpress.co.uk/osmanthus-x-burkwoodii-evergreen-shrub-large-specimen

Is it easy to grow in any particular soil? And can it survive a completely useless gardener?😁

I always thought mock orange flowered in summer but apparently I'm wrong (just googled). So what the hell did I buy that flowered mid summer and had that label?

EDIT - Nvm, mine was Philidephus Mock Orange. Why do they both have similar name??

I was going to suggest Vibernum for OPs post.

How quickly does this grow? I have large gap in my border which this looks perfect for. But I am impatient!

Could it be a Daphne? Scented blooms in winter.

Mexican orange blossom. I love it - strangely encountered a lot of it early evening yesterday - such a beautiful fragrance.

Choisia is commonly known as Mexican Orange blossom. Philadelphus is mock orange.This is a choisia, not terribly fussy about soil, like a good bit of sun. Short lasting shrub though, (ask Alan Titchmarsh) technical they flower in may, but they do sometimes flower in winter.

My choisya are looking the same ATM. Thousands of flowers and smell incredible. They're extremely hardy though one of mine died in the middle only. It was a 6ft wide bush and I had to take a good 2-3ft out the middle. It recovered magnificently.

Mine flowers way more than I thought it would throughout the year, even in winter.

That’s an Osmanthus. They smell lovely!

My Choisya isn’t in bloom at the moment-whereabouts in the country (world?) are you, OP?

I thought Choisya ternata aztec pearl to start with, but looking at the leaves, I think @gardeningnovice5 is correct that it’s Osmanthus. Both flower at this time of year
https://www.gardeningexpress.co.uk/osmanthus-x-burkwoodii-evergreen-shrub-large-specimen?ff=9&fp=16449&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2uiwBhCXARIsACMvIU3zXxbZsOfrzsmocwF_F8SRCOa_yE0ntYPvSfw4Lt82wsQcQNGdzg0aAh3fEALw_wcB

I take it back-I’ve just been to check on my choisya at the end of the garden and it is in bloom! It has much more yellow leaves than yours though

Choisia. If you leave it alone it is likely to flower on and off throughout the summer, but you give it a trim immediately after it flowers you will get another, equally dramatic flowing in the summer. It smells wonderful when you cut it. Completely different to the sweet, citrusy smell of the flowers - more herby, almost like basil.

I don't know about short-lived. Mine is over 10y old and going strong. Survived snow and wind. I have to trim it a couple of times a year to keep it under control, as I don't want it larger than about 4'.

I would say choisia smells honey like, the yellow leaf variety is Sundance.

Yes, the plant in the OP is definitely not a Choisya. This is a Choisya - flowers are similar but leaves are not:

https://www.sarahraven.com/products/choisya-white-dazzler?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIkKeGp-2-hQMV05VQBh2S4wVwEAQYBCABEgJ5tvD_BwE

It’s Choisya. Osmanthus has simple oval leaves, Choisya has compound leaves with three leaflets joined together at their bases - you can see this in the picture.

Petal shape doesn’t look right for on Osmanthus. Osmanthus petals are more strap-like and, crucially, there are only 4 of them not 5.

There’s more than one species of Choisya in cultivation, and one of them has very elongated leaflets.

There must be different types with different leaves. Mine (photo at 10am) doesn’t have leaves like that.

This is Choisya x dewitteana, @cointos’s plant is Choisya ternata

This is my choisia (choysia?) in March 2020.

Its Choisya TERNATA

They have similar common names because coincidentally they both have flowers whose scent is reminiscent of orange blossom. That’s why it’s better to use the scientific name. Choisya is a group of species in the same family as Citrus, Philadelphus is a group of plants in the same family as dogwood. Very different plants, very different scientific names.

Interested in your google reference on flowering time of Philadelphus. When did it think they flowered?

Daphne has only four petals