PLANT ID PLEASE

Viburnum carlesii used to be grafted on to a different rootstock, in which case suckers would be that plant and not carlesii. However taking a branch from above the graft would produce a plant of V carlesii(or what ever).

 

You should be able to verify that it's carlesii or carlcephalum by the amazing smell.The one called 'snowball' is usually 'plicatum' which has a flatter shape.
I have to say I'd go and buy a bigger one, and have the flowers sooner!

 

When I bought my "snowball" it was because I was inspired by a huge bush belonging to a greatly admired gardener who lived most of his life in an old ...... er what we used to call "cricket pavillian", just a wooden hut. He had loads of land, but put all his money into plants. He had this fantastic viburnum (of the non suckering tyrpe) and I went out to copy it, but bought "snowball" thinking I could do better than him - how wrong I was, ah why does youth always think it can always do better than age and wisdom?

Poor Jim is dead now - had a great funeral, just one reath on top of the coffin shaped in the form of his horses head but made of all his rare species daffodil bulbs that were flowering at the time.

sorry - think I am getting a bit black here, but I just wonder what has happened to all those plants and bulbs, his partned did not give a toss about them!