I don't think the first is a laurel, the arrangement of the leaves is wrong and laurel berries fish up black. But I have no better suggestion, it's not something I'm familiar with. Have you got acid soil?
The grassy thing is some sort of cyperus I think
No.10, I'd say Centaurea montana, blue flowers, pretty but a bit of a thug
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Hi Jack,
No 8 is a skimmia
No 9 is Cyperus alternifolius ( papyrus )
No 10 is Centaurea montana ( cornflower )
the last one is a variegated Pieris
I don't think the first is a laurel, the arrangement of the leaves is wrong and laurel berries fish up black. But I have no better suggestion, it's not something I'm familiar with. Have you got acid soil?
The grassy thing is some sort of cyperus I think
No.10, I'd say Centaurea montana, blue flowers, pretty but a bit of a thug
Last is a pieris
In the sticks near Peterborough
your post beat me to it fidgetbones
Should have said number 8 - the others weren't there when I posted!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@ fairygirl sorry which one looks like skimmia?
@ hostafan1 Thank you, oh yes skimmia, so that's which one you meant fairygirl
@ nutcutlet, thank you for that
Oh yes, thanks
Thank you everyone, now I'll go and learn about these plants and what to do with them and when.
So the only one that I haven't got a definite on is the winged, fluted, barky one, which was maybe a kind of euonymus. With the bright green leaves.
either euonymus europeous , European spinle
or
Eunoymus Alatus, the north american spindle
It doesn't really look like europaeus but I would have expected it to turn red it it was alatus
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes it didn't turn red.