What type of hedge is this? Curious new gardener!

@Merc22
Have a look at Olearia x haastii and see what you think, it is used as hedging.

 

Internet suggestion is Lagerstroemia Indica (crape myrtle), possibly the 'With Love'...range.

 

@Merc22
Your bush might be an Escallonia 'Ivyi' ? Evergreen bush with white flowers now.

 

Doesn't look like white Escallonia Iveyi to me, or any of the Spireas.
I'd go with the daisy bush/Olearia ID @Merc22 but it's not something I've ever grown so can't be sure.
In any case, some careful pruning [after flowering] and clearing of the base- with some organic matter added, should get it in better shape. If it is Olearia, I don't know how well they grow back from harder pruning but someone else will know that, or you could info from the RHS site.

It may require a few sessions of pruning/shaping to get it the way you want, or at least a more dense row of shrubs, but it may never be a proper 'hedge' as such unless it can be taken right back to get decent new growth. Always easier to get that from early on with a row of young plants.

 

Thanks for all the responses.

Yes I was meant to prune it but realise I will obviously have to wait now until after flowering.

I do have some liquid tomato feed already that I've been using for courgettes in the back garden so I'll have a look at using some of this and a bit of compost when the time is right.

Great tips to keep the roots healthy over winter - thank you!

 

I wouldn't bother with the tomato food - it's more for heavy flowering annuals and perennials rather than woody shrubs. Feed the soil instead with compost/rotted manure/leaf mould etc - that's the best solution

 

Feeding the soil is definitely the most important but, after a good pruning session, I like to encourage a plant's recovery with a little tonic of liquid feed. Works for me. Just don't do it beyond the end of July.

 

The flowers remind me a lot of choysia, but that's not normally grown as a hedge. Maybe it was originally a stand-alone shrub and someone has chopped it into a hedge shape?

 

I have a very similar plant and I would like to know what it is too. I'd wondered about Escallonia.

Maybe @Silver surfer could help, please.

 

What do the flowers smell like? Do they smell of honey?

 

The original photos and the latest ones looks to be an Olearia bush. The undersides of the leaves are very pale. Traversii gets quite big, whilst Haastii is more compact and gets to around 2 meters when mature.

 

I would suggest olearia. Prune back after flowering. If happy it will grow into a sizeable shrub.