Hedge with white flowers?

maybe Privet (ligustrum)?

In message , texas_gardener writes

Baby's Breath is (at least some of the time) Gypsophila. I don't think you could grow a hedge from that. Bridal Wreath often applies to Spiraea and particularly to Spiraea x arguta. You can treat that as a hedge, but if you want the lots of little white flowers it would have to be an informal hedge; if you clip it formally you'll lose most of the flowers.

There are other hedging plants with white flowers, such as privet, blackthorn or hawthorn. Quite likely you wouldn't consider the flowers of blackthorn or hawthorn to be little. It's perhaps not so clear cut with privet as with Spiraea x arguta, but for flowers privet is also best treated as an informal hedge.

anyway). I think the leaves were smaller, though -- tiny little leaves...

I did a search on "hedge white flowers" and got:

The photo of the privet hedge here:

In message , texas_gardener writes

There are other species of Euonymus.

That's a very carefully trimmed formal privet hedge; most privet hedges aren't so dense, and it can be grown as in informal hedge.

However I suggest that you look for images of Spiraea x arguta, which is (a plant known as) Bridal Wreath, and which does have small white flowers, and small leaves, and can be grown as a hedge (my father has it as a clipped hedge, at the expense of the flowers, but clipping once a year after flowering might be a workable regime).

It very well might be privet then. On the other hand, I searched on Spiraea x arguta and did find photos that looked promising:

Stewart, I believe you're right. The Bridal's Wreath Spiraea here is what I believe it is:

And now I remember my mother calling it by both Bridal's Wreath and Spiraea.

Thanks so much!!

Here it is for purchase (I think):

In message , texas_gardener writes

That's a different species of Spiraea. From the picture at the URL it looks as if it has larger leaves, and a different habit. In particular the flowers are clustered differently. See

You're right; I found a photograph of what I'm looking for:

Here it is, found by searching under "Spiraea x arguta catalog":

Carl