Hi Dean. The taller plant in your first picture looks like a goat willow and it is regarded as a weed. There have been quite a few of those mentioned on the forum this season. If it were me I would get rid of it. The other two pictures show a Rhododendron with next years flower buds already nice and healthy looking. I hope the Goat Willow isn't in the same pot - if the Rhododendron is in a pot.
p.s. Weeds are plants too
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Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
I was thinking Bay for the first one too. I have an edible bay bought from GC in a pot on the patio that really has outgrown and needs moving on - it looks dull like this (but also yellow from lack of food - yeah I know!). I realise they are trees but can be harshly cut back. Next door has a very large tree that I think looks like my bay (but healthier). Next doors' tree has self seeded all along my privet/hawthorn hedge to the point where in places it is becoming a bay hedge (if it is bay?). It is glossier than this but very similar. I might post pix tomorrow.
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Hi Dean. The taller plant in your first picture looks like a goat willow and it is regarded as a weed. There have been quite a few of those mentioned on the forum this season. If it were me I would get rid of it. The other two pictures show a Rhododendron with next years flower buds already nice and healthy looking. I hope the Goat Willow isn't in the same pot - if the Rhododendron is in a pot.
p.s. Weeds are plants too
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I think the first is a seedling willow, Salix caprea maybe.
The second is not a plant I know. Have you got acid soil, it has the look of a plant that likes acid soil
Last edited: 03 September 2016 20:06:13
In the sticks near Peterborough
No clue on first one but I'd hazard a guess at rhododendron for the other one.
Someone else will know for sure so don't take my word for it.
Edit: Ha, you two snuck in when I wasn't looking
Last edited: 03 September 2016 20:08:15
might the rhododendron be R. Baden Baden?
Sorry Kitty
. I think its too early to say Hosta but it might very well be that one. 
Am I being silly or could the first be bay? Try taking off a leaf and smelling it.
I was thinking Bay for the first one too. I have an edible bay bought from GC in a pot on the patio that really has outgrown and needs moving on - it looks dull like this (but also yellow from lack of food - yeah I know!). I realise they are trees but can be harshly cut back. Next door has a very large tree that I think looks like my bay (but healthier). Next doors' tree has self seeded all along my privet/hawthorn hedge to the point where in places it is becoming a bay hedge (if it is bay?). It is glossier than this but very similar. I might post pix tomorrow.
I'm pretty sure it's Salix caprea but I'm 100% sure it's not bay
In the sticks near Peterborough
Same here
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Mebbe next doors' tree is a Salix Caprea?