Once you learn about your plants you will be able to keep then under controll but they are, as yet, immature and you can fill the borders with cosmos and annuals and later with perennials as you become more confident.
Remember gardening is not a quick fix, like they show on garden shows, plants take time tp grow
The low-growing conifer looks like a Juniper to me. They grow more horizontally than upright. You can keep it trimmed back if you want to keep it. Ends up looking like a green carpet. IME it doesnt respond well to hard pruning, as it doesnt regrow from old wood, but it does provide ground cover. J.
The yellowing 2cnd shrub does look like a Skimmia. The yellowing leaves could mean that it's in too much sun. Normally evergreen, they are woodland understorey plants so shade/part shade positions are best. Also if your soil isnt acidic/neutral then it will struggle.
The flower buds on it though almost look like a Viburnum, they also cope well in part-shade/shade. Some of those are deciduous, others deciduous, but those remaining leaves do look more like an evergreen. J.
I think it is a skimmia too. I have had one that looked the same, was there when we moved in. It was in the front that gets the sun almost all day and in a narrow bed at the side of the path. I left it but it never did much!
I agree with Jo that it looks something like a juniper horizontalis in the last pic.
In the second pic. Front R. looks like Viburnum davidii, looks after itself mostly and behind it probably one of the whipcord hebes. They don't get too big and don't need attention.
You've got a lot in a small space there and you may do better to remeove something you don't like much to make way for those you do. I'd lose that juniper if it were mine. They're lovely but spread a lot and lose attractiveness once you start cutting them back. If you don't cut it back you'll lose the paving.
I think the second picture is a very poorly skimmia - throw it away, they are not expensive and by the state of it, the condition it planted in doesn't suit, plant something else instead, as those before me have mentioned. The 3rd pic looks like a juniper horizontalis, which I think has just lost its RHS AGM as its a huge thug. Sorry not to be more positive, but your layout looks lovely and these are possibly not the best to show off your garden.
Thanks again, but can i trim back the low growing conifer? If so what time of the year?
Here is pick No 4 -
I am assuming this will look better come spring /summer, but i don't want it to get any bigger. will it get bigger if i don't trim it? if i should trim it, how much do i trim and when?
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Once you learn about your plants you will be able to keep then under controll but they are, as yet, immature and you can fill the borders with cosmos and annuals and later with perennials as you become more confident.
Remember gardening is not a quick fix, like they show on garden shows, plants take time tp grow
Okay thats the shed built
Here is the next pic, again if you could let me know what it is and how/when do i trim
I know there is a few plants in the pic, i am asking about what looks like the the branches of a conifer
It isa conifer, I would just keep it in off the path, but I am sure there will someone here who knows more about them.
The low-growing conifer looks like a Juniper to me. They grow more horizontally than upright. You can keep it trimmed back if you want to keep it. Ends up looking like a green carpet. IME it doesnt respond well to hard pruning, as it doesnt regrow from old wood, but it does provide ground cover. J.
The yellowing 2cnd shrub does look like a Skimmia. The yellowing leaves could mean that it's in too much sun. Normally evergreen, they are woodland understorey plants so shade/part shade positions are best. Also if your soil isnt acidic/neutral then it will struggle.
The flower buds on it though almost look like a Viburnum, they also cope well in part-shade/shade. Some of those are deciduous, others deciduous, but those remaining leaves do look more like an evergreen. J.
I agree with Jo that it looks something like a juniper horizontalis in the last pic.
In the second pic. Front R. looks like Viburnum davidii, looks after itself mostly and behind it probably one of the whipcord hebes. They don't get too big and don't need attention.
You've got a lot in a small space there and you may do better to remeove something you don't like much to make way for those you do. I'd lose that juniper if it were mine. They're lovely but spread a lot and lose attractiveness once you start cutting them back. If you don't cut it back you'll lose the paving.
In the sticks near Peterborough
I think the second picture is a very poorly skimmia - throw it away, they are not expensive and by the state of it, the condition it planted in doesn't suit, plant something else instead, as those before me have mentioned. The 3rd pic looks like a juniper horizontalis, which I think has just lost its RHS AGM as its a huge thug. Sorry not to be more positive, but your layout looks lovely and these are possibly not the best to show off your garden.
Think I was talking about the 3rd pic. Never could count
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks again, but can i trim back the low growing conifer? If so what time of the year?
Here is pick No 4 -
I am assuming this will look better come spring /summer, but i don't want it to get any bigger. will it get bigger if i don't trim it? if i should trim it, how much do i trim and when?
Thanks again