What shrub/tree is this?

Would somebody please I.D this plant, it is situated at the bottom of the garden and smells lovely.

 

Pip, it loooks like Viburnum Bodantense, of which there are a few culitvars, this one could be 'dawn' but I'm not sure, someone will come up with the correct ID.

 

Certainly agree that it is a V. x bodnantense. Which one is harder, though you have only a choice of 3.

 

It has my vote as well. David.

 

That is beautiful, pip. I know of it but have never seen one before. I may have to coerce you into doing a layering for me or send me a cutting.

 

Do you think they smell of hyacinths? On a still day it scents the whole garden. I can smell mine from 50 feet. Absolutely lovely. I also have the Christmas box that will flower later and that is wonderful for scent as well.

 

Thanks folks

LoL, wouldn`t know how to begin taking a cutting and I don`t know what layering is.

Quite right geoff`, it does smell like a hyacinth.

 

Layering

Stems still attached to their parent plants may form roots where they touch a rooting medium. Severed from the parent plant, the rooted stem becomes a new plant. This method of vegetative propagation, called layering, promotes a high success rate because it prevents the water stress and carbohydrate shortage that plague cuttings.

Some plants layer themselves naturally, but sometimes plant propagators assist the process. Layering may be enhanced by wounding one side of the stem or by bending it very sharply. The rooting medium should always provide aeration and a constant supply of moisture.

Tip layering

Dig a hole 3 to 4 inches deep. Insert the shoot tip and cover it with soil. The tip grows downward first, then bends sharply and grows upward. Roots form at the bend, and the recurved tip becomes a new plant. Remove the tip layer and plant it in the early spring or late fall. Examples: purple and black raspberries, trailing blackberries.

Simple layering

Bend the stem to the ground. Cover part of it with soil, leaving the last 6 to 12 inches exposed. Bend the tip into a vertical position and stake in place. The sharp bend will often induce rooting, but wounding the lower side of the branch or loosening the bark by twisting the stem may help. Examples: forsythia, honeysuckle.

Compound layering

This method works for plants with flexible stems. Bend the stem to the rooting medium as for simple layering, but alternately cover and expose stem sections. Wound the lower side of the stem sections to be covered. Examples: heart-leaf philodendron, pothos.

Mound (stool) layering

Cut the plant back to 1 inch above the ground in the dormant season. Mound soil over the emerging shoots in the spring to enhance their rooting. Examples: gooseberries, apple rootstocks.

Air layering

Air layering is used to propagate some indoor plants with thick stems, or to rejuvenate them when they become leggy. Slit the stem just below a node. Pry the slit open with a toothpick. Surround the wound with wet unmilled sphagnum moss. Wrap plastic or foil around the sphagnum moss and tie in place. When roots pervade the moss, cut the plant off below the root ball.

See Pip. it's as easy as ABC. :confused: :D

 

With this Viburnum try simple layering. Mine did it itself. I was going to dig it up and give it to someone but by the time I got round round to digging it up I would have needed a JCB - they grow fast!
Plenty of shoots to bend across the surface and cover with soil. Easier than taking cuttings cause you can't fail with it.