What type of hedge is this?

PhilOssophy

Can anybody help me to identify this hedge? I need to buy more of it, or propagate it.

sadie1502

Laurel I think

HeidiHeidi

https://www.arboretum.ie/shop/products/garden-plants/hedging-plants/common-laurel-cherry-laurel.html?gclid=CjwKCAjw_JuGBhBkEiwA1xmbRbOArAWD44IQvwFyRBat6WT2LM3x6zIZiRDSwmBAHuHiaKntKtz_AxoCreAQAvD_BwE


looks like laurel to me

Reckless Abandonment

Looks more like Privet to me

HeidiHeidi

Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

Looks more like Privet to me

You think?



Maybe the picture is a bit misleading, but privet has much lighter, tighter leaves - in the OP's picture the leaves look bigger and more "waxy" than privet.


(pardon my very untechnical lingo!)

Reckless Abandonment

HeidiHeidi wrote: »

You think?



Maybe the picture is a bit misleading, but privet has much lighter, tighter leaves - in the OP's picture the leaves look bigger and more "waxy" than privet.


(pardon my very untechnical lingo!)

It dose normally. And I agree the pic makes it difficult. But that hedge looks to have been cut recently so we could be looking at a weaker area of growth. Laurel has a thicker leaf and lighter new growth. Im still going with privet:)

Calahonda52

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PhilOssophy

Reckless Abandonment wrote: »

It dose normally. And I agree the pic makes it difficult. But that hedge looks to have been cut recently so we could be looking at a weaker area of growth. Laurel has a thicker leaf and lighter new growth. Im still going with privet:)

Thanks for all the contributions guys. The hedge was cut last weekend. I'll see if I can zoom in well enough on the "before" pic to help!

PhilOssophy

Does this help?

looksee

I thought it was laurel but after another look at it I can see the privet possibility, which is strange since the leaves are really not all that alike. Can you include something for scale against a twig with a few leaves on a plain background?

tromtipp

I don't think it's laurel. Maybe wild privet, Ligustrum vulgare - being well tended and clipped makes it look lusher than wild privet usually does, but the leaf shape is right. Is it showing any tendency to flower?


http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=422&Wildflower=Privet,%20Wild

bb12

portuguese laurel?

PhilOssophy

Thanks for the help again guys.

looksee wrote: »

I thought it was laurel but after another look at it I can see the privet possibility, which is strange since the leaves are really not all that alike. Can you include something for scale against a twig with a few leaves on a plain background?

I will do this later on and add an image of it.

tromtipp wrote: »

I don't think it's laurel. Maybe wild privet, Ligustrum vulgare - being well tended and clipped makes it look lusher than wild privet usually does, but the leaf shape is right. Is it showing any tendency to flower?


http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=422&Wildflower=Privet,%20Wild

I'm pretty sure it doesn't flower but but it has been absolutely strangled by ivy for about 20+ years (possibly more), which I tackled at the weekend, and found the gaps which were filled with ivy, hence the question!

The Continental Op

My reason for thinking it MIGHT be wild privet is the way the branches are dead straight and very thin.

Can't be any form of Laurel if you go back to basics and look at the ways the leaves are attached to the stem, they are in pairs, on laurel they are alternate.

The Continental Op

Laurel - Alternate leaves

OPs - Plant Opposite leaves

Privet - Opposite leaves

gerardmshort

laurel