Here is a different one

Is that Halesia? I think it is, you lucky dog! It's what I think of as a "choice" native.

Here's more photos of them both

Vaporvac the white ones flowers don't drop like the one you are talking about.

It's not blueberry I have blueberry. It blooms before my blueberry, it does get small hard red berries or it could be black berries, on it I believe after blooming. I'll take pictures of that when it gets them. I think it will have both some blooms and berries at the same time. Also will add that it blooms before leafing out, the little bit of foilage you see is a vine.

The white one has no smell. The foliage looks familiar to me too, but don't know what it is either.

Updated to add the foliage is coming out on it, sorry. But it does bloom before the foliage comes. My blueberry is also blooming but it blooms in clusters and this doesn't have so many to a cluster. I took some blueberry leaves down to the shrub to compare and the foliage on the blueberry was much larger. Didn't have my phone to take pictures though. There is a vine in it that I didn't take out because it's a climbing jasmine. It does look similar,that blueberry Virgina, but it's not it.

Also Virginia do you have a winter honey suckle, sweet breath of Spring shrub?

Heres a old picture of it, still looking to see if i have a shot of the berries.

Alana, I think there are maybe 5-6 species of blueberry that are native to SC, so even if it doesn't look like the species you have, it might still be another?

V. elliottii does have small red berries that look black when ripe... see photos here: http://www.namethatplant.net/plantdetail.shtml?plant=1583

Your photos look a lot like our plant, which is blooming now, but only just starting to leaf out.

I don't have Winter Honeysuckle. I have the invasive Japanese honeysuckle, and also the native coral honeysuckle which has already started blooming...

You could try posting photos over at the Name that Plant forum.

Good luck,

Virginia

You maybe on to something Virginia, I wasn't aware they were different species of blueberries, that didn't look like blueberries. Are these edible? So cool. I'll post in that forum and see what they say.

Would you like a piece of Winter Honeysuckle? , I love it, Belmont actually helped me with the name, because I mixed up what my BIL grandmother called it when she gave me some. It smells so wonderful! Anyways just let me know!

Edited to say, I read up on that blueberry Virginia and you are spot on its ID. Any guess on the white one?

Alana, I think the suggestion at the Name that Plant forum is correct about the shrub with white flowers. It isn't a native of SC, so is it still loitering around where there used to be an old garden?

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?taxonid=245707&isprofile=0&;

I think it's rather cool, and even though it isn't fragrant, I wouldn't mind if you eventually have a bit to share... It was bred by a French horticulturalist named Lemoine; he bred some rather amazing plants.

We bought our Vaccinium elliotti from a Native Plant Society sale; it's a nice plant; the fruit is edible, but small.

Virginia

PS Vaporvac, do you have a Halesia? I agree that it's a good-looking plant, although the only one I've seen for sale is expen$ive. I'd probably opt for its slightly smaller cousin, Styrax americanus. First, though, I need to plant the Chionanthus virginicus we got last fall (another NPS purchase)....

Interesting. My DH said it looked like it was in the Rose family. What a gorgeous plant. Virginia, I wish I had Halesia! For some reason it just popped into my head and without thinking I answered! It does grow around here in gardens, but the soil must be amended. Styrax and Chionanthus are two other favorites! Please post pictures when you get the latter.

Alana, I believe you have Carolina Silver Bell/Halesia carolina. It's a lovely woodland type tree grown under high shade. There are some lovely specimens in the Duke Gardens here in Durham.

Ok everyone, thank you for all your help. The people in the plant forum nailed it I think. It's a Exochorda racemosa, or common pearl bush. Love the name!

Virginia, if you would like a piece , I will try to get one rooted, but I was asking if you wanted a piece of the winter honeysuckle. I wasn't aware, but as I was cleaning out the property, I found one I didn't even know I had up front on the property, surrounded by trees and it has a small baby around it. I cleaned out all the trees, and will prune it when it is done flowering to rejuvenate it. I really do love it.

I wish I had the Carolina Silver Bell/Halesia carolina too, it's really pretty!

You know I honestly wonder if a bird didn't plant the pearl bush, because it's not really all that big.. Now my DH said thast those woods were his great grandfathers , back yard and he gardened and planted stuff so he could have planted it as well. All those woods used to not be there.