Help - Plant ID for new project
Siobhan O'Sullivan
Posts: 18
Good morning
I wonder if I can call on your lovely fellow gardeners for some advice please? Some friends of mine have just taken over a cafe with a lovely outside space with quite a few established shrubs - some of which have been cut back quite hard by previous owner before they left.
They've asked me - as the most greenfingered person they know - to help them tidy it up and plant up the bare spaces.
I want to ID what is there and get some advice on dealing with some of the 'stumps' before I plan what to put in.
I have quite a few pictures across 8 sections of the garden so I may post those in individual replies to make it easier for responses. I hope someone can help.
Section 1
Close up pics of plants in this section for ID
1.1 - This is a hard cut back 'stump' on the right (above) with this little green spikey bit growing out. Any ideas? Will it come back or should I get rid?
1.2 - This is a clumped together climber in a pot. Not sure if it's a clematis or jasmine type? No flowers at the moment but again has been cut back as I think overgrown.
1.3 - small shrub on far left - some kind of box?
There is a rather large Hypericum (St Johns Wort) and a fuchsia on the right side of this also which have been cut back rather hard also.
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Section 2
Close Ups
2.1 - This is the HUGE fuschia - has some growth coming back - do I leave it or cut it back further?
2.2 - No idea what this is.
There is a nice big birch tree in this section and a few other stumps around but some space too.
Section 3
Plants for ID -
3.1 No Idea - help
3.2 - Quite difficult to see this one
3.3
Section 4
Close ups
4.1 - There is a camellia in here but I am not sure what the variegated foliage is.
4.2
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Section 6 - just one plant
Here's a flower on it and may more buds on it ready to pop
Section 7
7.1
7.2
7.3
7.4
7.5
That's them all!! Thank you all for any help you can give me!
Thank you Hazel that's hugely helpful and reassuring! I will get some plant labels and get them put on so I remember what they are and when to cut back!
Thanks again!
Hi Siobhan
. I like an ID challenge, so here goes....
1.1 Juniper ??
1.2. Honeysuckle ?
1.3 Azalea
2.2. Spotted laurel ?
3.1. Weigela "Florida varigata"
6. Choyisa. (Mexican orange blossom)
7.4. Hypericum ?
7.5. Holly ?
That's all I can spot, off the top off my head
I agree, this is one big challenge. But lots of really wonderful mature shrubs that deserve care and attention.
1.1 - Could be a very old Rosemary or Juniper (leave for now to see how it grows)
1.2?
1.3 - Could be a Buxus Sempervirens
2.1 - Possibly a Fucshia Magellanica variety
2.2 - Acuba Japonica
3.1 - Maybe a Cornus Alba 'Elgantissima'
3.2 - ?
3.3 - Looks like a Cherry Laurel, Prunus Laurocerasus
4.1 - Looks like Euonymous Japonicus 'Ovatus' or even Vinca Vine Maculata
6 - Choisya Ternata, Mexican Orange Blossom
7.1 - Could be a type of Hawthorn
7.2 - ?
7.3 -
7.4 - A wild guess, could be a type of Holboelia Lactifolia/Coriacea
Apologies, I missed..
7.5. Looks like an Ilex, some sort of variegated Holly shrub.