Identify this bush ? Please

it is about six feet tall, flower spikes are about five inches long



Jack McHammocklashing

 

hebe?

 

Looks like Spiraea x billardii or Spiraea salicifolia?

https://www.kuleuven-kulak.be/kulakbiocampus/buiten-kulak/bomen-heesters/Spirea%20x%20billardii/spirea%20x%20billardii-02.jpg

Spiraea x billardii now apparently called Spiraea x pseudosalicifolia.

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spiraea_x_pseudosalicifolia_(Rosaceae)_plant.JPG

http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4111/4831478967_6de6350d5c_z.jpg

http://treeflower.la.coocan.jp/Rosaceae/Spiraea%20salicifolia/Spiraea%20salicifolia.htm

 

Thanks very much Silver Surfer
It is so succesfull in my back garden that I thought I had been cultivating a weed :-)
It was only when I took the photo to post here I realised how un weedy and how nice the actual flower head was
I will just have to note the name and write a label out for it now

Thank you again

Jack McH

 

Always makes it legitimate once it has a label doesn't it?

 

I write a label, because I have not a chance in Hell of remembering the name, or finding this post again in the forums

It could be a Spiraea x pseudosalicifolia (Rosaceae) Bastardus for all I care, label or not

Jack McH