Coronilla has flowers a bit like gorse or a very blowsy pea and soft leaves. Potentilla has open, flat daisy like flowers and rather stiffer leaves. I can't actually see from the photo if 3 is either of those. From the colours, I'd say coronilla is likely - blueish foliage - but that may just be my dodgy computer screen
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Well Fairygirl and raisingirl it seems Coronilla might be it! I have asked for a better close up of flowers and leaves just to confirm I was completely wrong (pretty much on all counts) but at least it would mean we could give it a good haircut.
Your computer screen is fine raisingirl, I tend to blame my eyes more often than the screen but they are on the bluer side (the leaves, not my eyes).
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
I agree that picture 3 is a Coronilla shrub. Not all have blue leaves. Some are just dark green. The flowers form a small ring shape and on closer inspection I can see it in the photo, so definitely not a Potentilla.
So it's confirmed then @Borderline, I was wrong on all counts Good job I don't have to call them by name as I chop them to bits eh? Good job I have all of you on the end of a piece of cable!
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
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Your computer screen is fine raisingirl, I tend to blame my eyes more often than the screen but they are on the bluer side (the leaves, not my eyes).