What shrub is this?

[Liam C Ryan]

This is an evergreen shrub with varigated green and yellow leaves mostly green which are abour 1" long. The shrub is about 12ft tall. For the last few days the bees have been very busy foraging in it. I would like to plant one or two of these shrubs in a new site l have .

 

[victor meldrew]

Skimmea the bees love it , the spelling won't be correct

John Wilkinson

 

[Skyhook]

Sorry, definitely not skimmia. Possibly box (buxus) although 1" sounds rather long for the leaves- I would expect 3/8-1/2". If it is, it roots really easily. Box are slow growing, but can get big eventually.

 

[victor meldrew]

Sorry, definitely not skimmia. Possibly box (buxus) although 1" sounds rather long for the leaves- I would expect 3/8-1/2". If it is, it roots really easily. Box are slow growing, but can get big eventually.

I have box, the flowers are bluish, very small and appear later in the season ?

Box is evergreen easily rooted , once it gets going it will stand drastic pruning and can reach quite a height . There is a miniature variety however.
I stand corrected on the skimia

John Wilkinson

 

[nelletap]

I cannot quite remember what it is but know I have seen it and thought it quite a common hedging plant - even a variety of privet? Could it be lonicera nitida (evergreen honeysuckle shrub not climber?) That has creamy flowers. It looked as though there were also some ceonothus leaves behind the lighter ones?
tricia

 

[Cazza]

It looks a bit like like a variegated privet, definately not lonicera nitida.

Just popped out to look at the plant I think of as variegated privet, it looks very similar. Mine has buds but no flowers yet. I'm not entirely convinced it's privet because it flowers later in the year??

Why not dig around the roots and see if you can get some rooted chinaman's cuttings off it
Cazza

 

[Skyhook]

I have box, the flowers are bluish, very small and appear later in the season ?

John Wilkinson

From hedging.co.uk, on box- 'Small tufty yellow flowers appear from late winter.' Not sure what youve got, I'm sticking with box.

Do the leaves give off a scent in summer?

 

[victor meldrew]

From hedging.co.uk, on box- 'Small tufty yellow flowers appear from late winter.' Not sure what youve got, I'm sticking with box.

Do the leaves give off a scent in summer?

Yep , It's box alright but then again there are a few cultivars

John W.

 

[Skyhook]

Yep , It's box alright but then again there are a few cultivars

John W.

Any chance you could post a pic? I'm consumed with curiosity now.

 

[RoofTops]

There is a thing called Christmas box which flowers in winter but the leaves are lancelote shaped, not like the ones in the piccys above.

 

[victor meldrew]

Any chance you could post a pic? I'm consumed with curiosity now.

Picture taken this afternoon, no flowers , it was clipped late Summer.
Ignore the Alder cones they were transported there courtesy of the winter gales

John W.

 

[Skyhook]

Well, now I am flummoxed. The leaves look very box like, but the blue flower throws me. Any chance you could post another pic when it's in flower?

(don't worry, I probably will have forgotten by then)

 

[victor meldrew]

Well, now I am flummoxed. The leaves look very box like, but the blue flower throws me. Any chance you could post another pic when it's in flower?

(don't worry, I probably will have forgotten by then)

Forgotten what!!

John Wilkinson

 

[milkermel]

sure its not a privet or box, I have some in my garden and a friend who i cant get hold of at the moment who told me the name. will find out today!

 

[milkermel]

got it Ligustrum japonica rotundifolia! they have some reallly good specimins at knightshayes house.

 

[mbc]

"you can get some rooted chinaman's cuttings off it"

Ce ?

 

[RoofTops]

Ligustrum japonica rotundifolia - a type of privet I think.
http://www.google.co.uk/images?hl=e...tle&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQsAQwAA&biw=1394&bih=773

 

[Skyhook]

got it Ligustrum japonica rotundifolia! they have some reallly good specimins at knightshayes house.

Still doesn't have blue flowers!

 

[milkermel]

Still doesn't have blue flowers!

sorry skyhook was refering to the first set of pictures the second lot look like some form of oelearia to me. (not sure of spelling for that one!) privet can have the blueish flowers, but this one looks to fleshy in the stem for privet.

 

[Cazza]

"you can get some rooted chinaman's cuttings off it"

Ce ?

That's what I call it when you manage to capture a bit of root with your "cutting."
Cazza