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Shrub ID please

WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 2,794
in Problem solving
When I was working at a large garden I was allowed to take home anything that was not wanted or deemed dead...
I brought home a stick of a shrub that was "dead" but have never known what it is! Needless to say it's alive and has the most beautiful scent and blooms. Any ideas please? 

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  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 5,053
    I think it's an Abelia, don't know which one though.
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 3,247
    That looks like Abelia Grandiflora.
  • philippa smith2philippa smith2 Posts: 7,789
    Pretty sure it's Abelia .  Congrats on such a good rescue job too :)
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 2,794
    Thank you so much! 😀👍the scent is heavenly and the bees love it. It does look pretty healthy now doesn't it! 😉
  • philippa smith2philippa smith2 Posts: 7,789
    I had one in my previous garden - I'll just have to make do with "sniffing" your photo for now :)
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 2,794
    Watch out you don't inhale a bee! 😀
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 1,146
    Hummingbird hawkmoths love it too.
  • HippophaeHippophae Posts: 139
    Abelia are fantastic shrubs that flower so reliably and over a long period every year.
  • PeggyTXPeggyTX Posts: 456
    I have 2 white abelias along my driveway, planted by former homeowners.  But I prefer the pink variety.  Yours is lovely!
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  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 2,794
    Alan, interesting you should say that. I had a hummingbird hawk mouth in my garden last year but it was on the honeysuckle. This year of it returns it will be spoilt for choice! 😀
    Hippophae, I'm glad it flowers for a long period, the scent it gives, the lovely blooms, I absolutely love it!
    Thank you Peggy 😊 mine is now almost blocking the entrance to my greenhouse.
    I was working at a stately home owned by an American couple that have s place in Suffolk, UK. It was an amazing 70 acres of all sorts of types of gardens, woodlands, lakes, kitchen gardens... beautiful! I always accepted rejected plants from there! 😀
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