There is an area of the backyard that I have left natural, the birds love it and faeries love it too This shrub, which I think the birds must have planted, has been growing larger over the last couple of years. Today wandering around out there I kept smelling some very pleasing fragrance, turned around just as a limb of it bumped me in the head and found all these blooms. Don't know but it smells wonderful ( photo / image / picture from toni's Garden )
nice lil white clusters there.. im sure the bee's and stuff will probably love it too eh.. i was walking around my backyard today and would catch a whiff of some plant but i never did find the source... guess im gonna have to sniff around some more..
Might it be Bridal Wreath Spirea. I know it has white flowers and smells great and sweet. We had a hedge of it when we lived in Wisconsin. dooley
I think dooley is correct...... I had that growing once.. Then I killed it . Probably froze out . Hooray dooley wins again...........
Nope not a Bridal Wreath Spiraea. Those leaves are long and slender, the ones on my shrub are wide and rounded. The flower on the Spiraea are rounded, the flowers on my shrub have look almost like a star with 4 petals and two stamin.
Looks like a Ligustrum or privet hedge to me. http://www.floridata.com/wallpaper/jpg/ ... flr800.jpg There is also a wild variety: http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl= ... N%26um%3D1
Sharon I think you got it. Thanks a bunch. I knew there was a good reason for leaving it alone. Since this is the first year it has bloomed I will get to see the berries this fall. The birds will probably love it. The Bees are certainly loving it now.
There is a row of Ligustrums behind my house and when I am on the deck the area smells so sweet. In fact these shrubs are all over the area. However, I don't remember seeing all the blooms and them smelling this way last year. Maybe they don't bloom every year! :-? Does anyone know? :?:
