Moved house last year. Need help ID'ing some plants please
Hi,
I'm new to the forum but not to gardening or the GW magazine and website which I find hugely helpful!!
I moved house last Autumn and am now trying to get stuck into the garden but before starting anything or potentially destroying anything I want to find out what I have already and was hoping some of you might be able to help me please.
I know what quite a lot of the plants, trees and flowers are but some I'm not so sure of and some that have only just come up again after the harsh winter.
Your help would be very much appreciated. The garden is quite overgrown and hasnt been tended to very well :-/ trying to fix that now though!
Nicky 
Tall Shrub approximately 5 feet tall
Small plant currently hidden amongst geranium and a million other plants.
Large shrub or tree, lovely shiny leaves approximately 7 ft tall
Another large 6/7ft tree/ shrub
And another... approx 5ft
We have a few of these... they are about 3ft tall and are at the front of the borders :-/
We have a whole wall on one side of the garden of these....
No idea what this is but seems to be a tree which has been cut smaller at some point. Has quite a big trunk. Currently 8ft.
I think last year these had yellow flowers
i think these were big white daisy looking f
Posts
Is this a hawthorn of some sort? Currently over 12ft tall.
No 3 looks like camellis leaves. Last one a double hawthorn (Pauls scarlet maybe)
3 ft tall thing at front of border looks like a tall yellow scabious. Columbaria something or other.
No 9 could be Golden Rod.
3 looks like Prunus lusitanica to me, Portugal laurel
4 Viburnum tinus
5 Escallonia
lost count, the pink one is a weigela
the shrubby one above the pink one could be one of the snowberries
The one after the pink one might be some sort of willow, theyoften get cut back to grow again
what are we left with?
In the sticks near Peterborough
1. Looks like Skimmia sp.
5. Escallonia.
Weigela
Thanks everyone
I reckon you're right on the skimmia Ss. It's got that yellow look they have
In the sticks near Peterborough
8. Weigela.
Really hate the way you cannot edit on here once someone else has posted!
2. Looks like Rhododendron... one normally known by common name Azalea.
I would like to see more pic to try to give accurate ids.
Showing the whole plant.
A good close up of leaves on the twig.
Flower etc .
1. Skimmia
2.
3.? portugese laurel
4.
5.Escallonia
6
7
8 Weieglea
9 willow no idea which one
10 leucothanthem. not spelt right, but bif white daisies.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
The red flower looks like a day lily, does it have strap like leaves?
1st one could be laurel. 3rd one 7ft shiny leaves could be a bay tree.
5th one ? escallonia, see if it has flowers.
No 8 shrub with pink flowers could be kolkwitzia or weigela.
No 9 Solidago (golden rod)
No 10 Leucanthemum