Thanks All for the info! I think you are correct, Flora UK, it is a Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Mariesii' After reading the link you included (thanks!) it was clear that that is my tree, or actually, now I realize, Shrub! I don't have any close up pics, and it's not in bloom yet, so they probably wouldn't reveal much. After all the info though, I am almost positive it's what Flora mentioned. Ken, you made me giggle. No, I wouldn't *really* give it a hair cut! I will prune it back. I haven't done a thing to it since we got here, so its probably time. And yes, it is much too close to the house! But I love it and there is no way I could part with it. And now I'm off to learn how to properly prune a Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Mariesii' :)) Tulip Smiles.

when I used to live in the twin cities, the common lingo used by designers and la types was that they carefully selected plants for your personal landscape based on soil preferences and adability to the area, ie, cold hardiness. And if course you can rhoddies in high pH, clay soil, in a wind tunnel. Ok, so the wind tunnels weren't that common, but my experience tells me that broad regions of the upper Midwest tend to the alkaline, and soils can vary widely over even small distances. When I lived in mn, I was constantly trying things I had no idea of how they'd grow. if you rely on only the known reliables in that weather, your idea of exotic is how many varieties of spire and nine bark can you grow? So i'd try different things. Korean arb? dead as toast before thanksgiving. Japanese Stone pine? still thriving without ever so much as the slightest winter burn almost 20 years later. Turkish filbert? one survived and thrives, one died after a couple years. You try those things that you dare. the risk is failure, the reward is something no one else has. of course, as you move into milder winters, what is defined as questionable becomes quite a bit different.

The women in the beauty shop photo are wearing NYLONS and little heels! They are reading NEWSPAPERS, not scandal magazines! Everyone is wearing a skirt; no PANTS. I remember a meeting at which one woman said she had hardly slept on her wedding night. (No, no, not what you are thinking!) She wanted to be sure to get up before her husband so she could style her hair. He'd never seen her without her 'do'. She had four children at this point, so I guess he may have seen her hair in its natural state, and worse, by then.

I agree with Jay. It is a large shrub rather than a tree, so likely won’t get taller than it currently is.