Identifying a plant

I have two farview! - not trying to make you !!

Oh I love it..want one..the search begins..?

That is a name I haven't heard for a long time - Guelder Rose!

Here's the spring back or close,
When the almond-blossom blows:
We shall have the word
In a minor third
There is none but the cuckoo knows:
Heaps of the guelder-rose!
I must bear with it, I suppose.

Robert Browning
A Lovers' Quarrel verse XVIII

Brilliant! - well done collective plant detectives!

Nandalot has got it! Having seen a close-up of the flowers, Guelder rose immediately sprang to mind, so there you have it - Viburnum opulus.

Glad that's sorted...

Your picture reminded me of my childhood Fairies of the Flowers and Trees book and He Guelder Rose.
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I googled Guelder Rose and the picture looks similar. Hope link works.

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I do see what you are saying Nan - it is interesting. The leaves clearly do support the oak leaf lobby, but the flowers of the oak leaf variety are slightly different - the centre "buds" in my plant never do open to form a whole bloom ( as many of the photos of the oak leaf variety indicate) - what you see in the photo here is how it is throughout its whole blooming period.

It is also much more like a tree than a bush.

It is very lovely!

actually, you're right, the leaves are oak leaf shaped NTW

I don't really think so, Luckygirl - the leaves are smooth edged, yours are definitely dentate, so I stick by H. quercifolia (I'm very stubborn... )

I like hydrangeas (any type) and have just bought a 'blue flower' one for DH but have planted it in a large pot because in our soil it would change to pink.

Mind you - mine is more tree-like than bushy, but presumably it is a variant - the flowers are spot on.

Thank you all for pointing me in the direction of hydrangeas!

I've found it!!!! It is Hydrangea arborescens Haas' Halo:

www.whiteflowerfarm.com/63165-product.html

Yes Jalima the leaves are very distinctive on this species, unlike ordinary Hydrangeas. It is only just starting to flower, and the centre of the panicle will slowly develop into a drooping cone of flowers. It's also renowned for its Autumn colour.

I must admit, I've never heard of an oak leaf hydrangea before. ?

The leaves on yours look like an oakleaf hydrangea, as NantheWiser said.

My climbing hydrangea looks a bit similar and is just starting to flower, but it is not a self-supporting shrub. The centre is greenish-white rather than brown though.

I'm not sure what it is, Luckygirl, because from your picture, the leaves don't look like the leaves on my mop head hydrangea and as shysal says, it's still a bit early for them to be in flower here. Whatever it is, though, it looks very pretty.

Your hard work is paying off Luckygirl

I should get out and do a bit more in our garden.

And I have summerhouse

Thanks Jalima - I am novice gardener and have worked very hard on it and feel quite pleased with the result.

I don't know - but what a lovely garden!!

The outer flowers are really just bracts, the real ones are the tiny ones in the centre plate.

Just looked at some pics of that and it is similar - but my flat circular blooms are not quite the same. The middle of the bloom has such tiny flowers that it looks as though there are none - then it has these white florets all round the rim.

I think it looks like the oak-leaf Hydrangea - Hydrangea quercifolia.