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Can you help identify these plants please?

jo.rbhjo.rbh Posts: 15
edited April 2019 in Plants
We moved in to a new house last year and are just getting round to tackling the garden. Could anyone help identify these plants? Both are evergreen and the first flowers. TIA
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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 21,698
    Which plants? I'm not getting a photo.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 3,853
    What, @Busy-Lizzie you need photos to ID plants now? I thought you were a "voyante extra-lucide". ;)
    You are invited to a virtual visit of my garden (in English or in French).
  • LynLyn Posts: 21,894
    Evergreen, first flowers, could be Skimmia? 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • jo.rbhjo.rbh Posts: 15
    Busy-Lizzie said:
    Which plants? I'm not getting a photo.
    I don’t seem to be able to upload them from my phone sorry. Will try on the laptop later.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 11,423
    No worries @jo.rbh , thought it was me, to be honest,  was going to check on my pc just in case!  Welcome to the forum by the way  :)
  • jo.rbhjo.rbh Posts: 15


    This is the flowering plant. Seems relatively stable at this size. I was thinking a type of Azela but I’m a gardening beginner!
    This one is evergreen but no flowers. It was much larger and we’ve cut back significantly. I thought this might be a variety of holly.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,840
    Second one is a mahonia ... lovely scented yellow flowers in the winter ... possibly you pruned the potential flowers off ... bug never mind ... feed it with Fish, Blood &’Bone fertiliser (according to directions on the pack) and you should get plenty of  flowers next winter. 😊 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 21,698

    The first one looks like a camellia, I could be wrong though.

    2nd, I agree, is a Mahonia, an early flowering shrub. Isn't that a yellow flower on the right under the leaves?

    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 21,698
    :D Ha Ha Papi Jo!
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • jo.rbhjo.rbh Posts: 15
    Busy-Lizzie said:

    The first one looks like a camellia, I could be wrong though.

    2nd, I agree, is a Mahonia, an early flowering shrub. Isn't that a yellow flower on the right under the leaves?

    That’s just a flash of yellow from a nearby eunonymus...the previous owner seemed to be rather fond of them 🙄
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