Can someone tell me the name of this tree, please

Clusters of elder flowers are flat-topped. The clusters in the OP's picture are roughly cone-shaped, as are those of bird cherry and cherry laurel.

It looks like cherry Laurel to me. We have one in full bloom right now. It's 30 ft tall, dark evergreen leaves and covered in creamy white tassels of fragrant tiny blooms. In the autumn there are cherry sized black fruits. The bark is smooth.

62Granny: It looks like an elder to me too

Whatever it is it’s beautiful. I love ornamental (if you can call it ornamental) trees like that. I hope it does not litter the yard too much when molting, shedding or changing seasons.

Let’s plant more trees, everywhere!
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As I posted earlier Bird Cherry is not evergreen but Cherry Laurel is.

Is it evergreen?

That could help to identify it.

25Avalon

Not Elder or Bay. I have both.

No, not a bay, the flowers are different.

Nor elder.

Bird cherry, I think. There are some lovely ones by the Church just up the road to the right of Eustan Station, if you happen to know that area. It's great for bees and birds certainly eat the 'cherries'.

I did a Google image reverse. It is saying this.

It is a Prunus Padus, known as bird cherry, hackberry, hagberry, or Mayday tree. It can grow up to 16 feet tall

Not Elder or Bay. I have both.

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It looked like an Elder the flowers are white and the berries that come after are purplish black, do the flowers smell a bit like cats pee ?

Bay tree:

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It looks a lot like the laurel in our neighbour's garden, which is about 20 ft tall and currently spreading 6 ft over their fence. It has black fruits later that the wood pigeons eat and then splat all over our drive.

That's why I thought it could be Itea Henry's Garnet ilicifolia - Virginian Willow because the leaves look similar to laurel or bay.

Our bay tree has white flowers but they in smaller clusters.

It looks a lot like the laurel in our neighbour's garden, which is about 20 ft tall and currently spreading 6 ft over their fence. It has black fruits later that the wood pigeons eat and then splat all over our drive.

It is a black cherry according to my recognition app on my iPhone.

Looks like bird cherry to me also. I have one in garden too. As it fell down when we moved in the shoots from the base have flowered for the first year. Eagerly awaiting to see the fruit as a saw on net you can make a liquor in a similar fashion to sloe gin

Is it "Itea Henry's Garnet ilicifolia - Virginian Willow"?

www.gardeningexpress.co.uk/itea-henrys-garnet-ilicifolia-virginian-willow?fee=2&irclickid=U5CR0k0ODxyPRPB3CHVNZzC%3AUkF0-HX9E3P93A0&irgwc=1&Source=Im&utm_source=Impact&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=1812968

There is a local overgrown laurel that is taller than the house it grows near. I’m not sure they ever stop going up unless they are cut back. I think it looks like laurel.

Probably Cherry Laurel, very unusual to get to 12m - 40ft often used for hedging, leaves are poisonous as all Laurels

If it’s a Laurel tree the leaves will be evergreen. If it’s British Bird Cherry it is deciduous as is the Virginia Bird Cherry also called Chokeberry, native to the US, whose leaves turn red in Autumn before falling. So come the Autumn you will know.

It looks very like my Portuguese Laurel which is in bloom at present. Mine is in a large pot on my patio.

How about Prunus Virginiana Schubert Virginia Bird Cherry

www.paramountplants.co.uk/large-image/pvs/prunus-virginiana-schubert.html

Cherry laurel or Portugal laurel, probably the former. It is not Bird Cherry as some have suggested - I have one of these in my garden and it flowered back in April.

Thanks, I believe it is bird cherry - it is most certainly a tree not a shrub and the flowers and fruit are different from the ones on our laurel bush.

If you google "laurel blossom" you may be able to compare.

My laurel is not so tall and spreads outwards more.