Help identifying plants

hwalkerh

We moved into our house the end of last year and have a really big garden. we are struggling a bit to keep on top of it while we do up the house. There are lots of lovely plants and shrubs but i don't know what they all are. Any help with identifying them would be great.

I have put the photos here, there are more then one plant in some photos and I have number them for reference. Any plants you can identify will be great so i can work out how to look after them

https://picasaweb.google.com/114275620688673531716/HouseAndGarden#

thanks

elsien

Your second picture looks like a hellebore.
Is the one to the left on picture 3 a pieris (forest flame?). Hard to tell without a close up.
Picture 4, the ones with the white flower right at the front are aquilegia (columbines.) You've got them all over, there's the purple ones in another picture. They self seed all over the place, you don't need to worry about doing anything with them.

hwalkerh

Thanks, Yeah the one in photo 3 on the left is a forest flame. It is a nice big one. Not sure what the plant on the left is with the little yellow flowers on. Never heard of the other two so will look them up
Thanks

hollydays

1-white flowers plant is an azalea- a shrub. to it's left the leaves of some bulbs like day lily
2- a herbaceous peony ( need staking now to support them if your inclined to))- label them in the ground as they die back
At the back- cotoneaster-arching shrub that has red berries in winter( probably the variety horizontalis)

3. 1st pieris forestii- evergreen shrub.
2nd shrub - just remembered - batchelors buttons- Yellow flowers in early spring Kerria japonica- gets leggy so I'd prune it right back asap- it is a tough old thing.

4

Tallish biennial plant- flowering Columbine( aquilegia/granny's bonnet) will self seed freely.
Low compact plant in the middle is a common primrose( primula vulgaris ) I think which has flowered in the spring.

5-
red flowered plant is a variety of hardy perennial- potentilla?
Yellow flowers could also be potentilla- ( unless they are buttercups- )
Slightly succulent leafed plant at the back is sedum spectabile good for autumn colour- attracts butterfly's
Blue flowered plant is biennial forget me not- ( myosotis)needs taking out after flowering , or leave in to set some seed.
6-( Lilly ? ) bulb.
Honeysuckle growing up,tree-either spring or summer flowering.
Looks like bulbs have already flowered and been cut back eg hyacinths , so don't dig them up when they die back. Label the ground.

7
Rhododendron . Flowering shrub.smaller plant is a bush rose.
8- deciduous shrub- weigela rosea

12-
Pink plant shrub- rhododendron

13- common rhododendron rhododendron ponticum) and magnolia soulangiana a deciduous tree
15- at the bottom of the picture the fern type leaf looks like Jacobs ladder- a blue plant? that can be a bit of a pest as it seeds freely.
Blue flowered plant is centurea

The shrub with white flowers- can only think of a lacecap hydrangea

17 Pink flowered plant is a variety of potentilla a hardy perennial
More sedum

18
Blue flower is more columbine/ aquilega

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Pic 1 the dark almost black plant is probably a Sambucus nigra.
Pic 2 the red thing about to flower is a peony.
Pic 3 on the left is a forest flame. The yellow one I think is a type of Japonica.
Pic 4 also agree these are aquilegias.
Pic 5 the blue one could be forget-me-nots
Pic 7 I think the shrub at the front left is a Magnolia and maybe a rose to the right and behind.
Pic 8 I think the bush with the small pink flowers is a Weigela and are they blue bells at the front?
Pic 10 I know this one, but can't rememer the name. :rotfl: I add to this post if I remember.
Pic 11 looks like an Acer, a Japanese Maple
Pic 12 the pink thing is a rhododendron
Pic 13 another rhododendron on the left and magnolia on the right
Pic 14 blue are probably forget-me-nots, the pink thing another rhododendron, or maybe an azalea, a big holly tree in the back
Pic 17 orange poppies at the back

Sorry if some of these are wrong but I've had to squint a bit :rotfl:

Money_maker

1 - Sambucus Nigra or dark weigla
White flowers are azalea.
2 - Paeony with cotoneaster behind.
3 - Agreed, Pieris. Will come back with name on yellow shrub but it does spread and get straggly.
4 - Liatris or similar coming up in middle. Aqueligia at front (white).
5 - Sedum at back, fuschia at front, forget me nots.
6 - Liatris or some kind of lily? Honeysuckle on tree.
7 - Rhododendron or magnoia, rose behind. Ceanothus is the blue to right hand side.
8 - Agree looks like weigla and bluebells.
9 - Need better picture.
10 - Mahonia
11 - Acer
12 - Azalea or dwarf rhodo to right. Spirea to left.
13 - Rhodo and magnolia.
14 - Azalea & forget me nots. Plant to right maybe a form of laurel??
15 - Not sure on these shrubs.
16 - Sedum, centurea. You have bindweed which is a pain to eradicate and that sticky weed (dont know the name but as kids we used to throw it at each other!).
17 - Agree with above.

hollydays

Ah yes agree moneymaker number 10 is mahonia- good video on YouTube on how to prune to get them to put out side shoots
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ajCbq-SaZKE

hwalkerh

Thank everyone. That is amazing. Fantastic to know what everything is and I can label them all up so next year when we give the garden an overall we know what is what. Also means some of the smaller things that can go wild I can sort at the end of summer.

I do like to garden but a bit of a novice at the moment so all this info is great. Thanks

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Money_maker wrote: »

...10 - Mahonia...

Thank you. Trying to remember the name was driving me mad.

A good tip is to look at what is flowering now and then go and visit local garden centres. They are probably selling a lot of the same plants at the moment. Then do the same thing again in summer to try and identify your summer flowering plants / shrubs.

Just a tip about the Sambucus in pic 1. They have the most amazing and unexpected pink flowers and are a lovely plant. However, I think it might get far too big for the space where it is planted now. Maybe try and move it in winter?

Money_maker

Yellow flowered shrub in pic 3 is Kerria. Knew I would remember it eventually.

Back of 17 & 18, tall leaves look like crocosmia, grow from corms, lovely but keep under control!

Cally_Smart

I'm agreeing with most of the suggestions ,having got on to the thread late in the day!You've got some classy plants there what with all the azaleas,acer & sambucus nigra etc.What do you think about the Shrub in pic 15 being 'Viburnum tinus'?