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Help with IDs please

ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
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Since their shelter was destroyed at the weekend, I am planning to plant out my treasures but no longer have the labels for these three which makes siting and spacing a bit difficult.   Any ideas?

Plant 1 - shrub with deep pink flowers just opening now


Plant 2 probably has ambitions to grow to tree size




Plant 3 


Thanks in advance.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Plato
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  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited October 2020
    Edit to add...

    1.?  Please can you add clear pics of a flower .
    Looks like Lagerstroemia indica ...just noticed flowering top left of your pic.

    2. Lonicera sp.
    3. Daphniphyllum macropodum 
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Thanks.  1 and 3 sound familiar.

    Just no 2 now.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    2. Lonicera sp.......It will be easy to id when it has flowers.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Definitely not a lonicera.  I have 3 of those already plus a shrubby nitida and this definitely wants to be a tree.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Joy*Joy* Posts: 571
    Is the last one a Skimmia?
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    edited October 2020
    3.  Very confident it is  Daphniphyllum macropodum.... see pics.
    Shrub is either male or female.
    Pics below show male shrub.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @silver surfer is right.  Daphniphyllum have males and females and the male produces showy red flowers while the female produces insignificant green flowers followed by berries.  No idea which mine is yet but it does get gorgeous red stems on the new foliage and is quite unusual. 
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Is no.2 Ailanthus?
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Nice try @Liriodendron but no.  The RHS experts have come up trumps.  It's my bee bee tree!   Never knew the botanical name and never found it by googling bee bee tree.

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/19630/i-Tetradium-daniellii-i/Details 

    Since you're there @Liriodendron, I have to tell you my lovely liriodendron has lost its head in storm Alex.  Only about 45cms from the leader but it'll make it multi-stemmed now.  That's OK as I have a pawlonia that's going to grow to be very tall and single stemmed.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    Glad you've found what it is, @Obelixx - never heard of that one!

    Pity about the Liriodendron, but it could be interesting as a multi-stemmed tree...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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