Can anyone help identify these?

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  1. Pepe

    Pepe Apprentice Gardener

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    Was out at a park today and came across these flowers and thought they looked nice. No idea what they are. :dunno:Can anyone identify them please?
     

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  2. Pete8

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    1st one is perovskia - Russian Sage
     
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      No 1 is a Perovskia and looks like my Blue Spire. Needs a cut back once frost is over and new growth along the old stems comes out. I found a video on YT showing where to cut ( approximately half of the stem where the upper part was dried out.
      If not pruned, it will look like in the picture.
       
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        I used to grow perovskia Little Spire but I think my soil is too rich - even that grew very straggly and after 2-3 years it just disappeared. So I replaced it with dwarfish Nepeta that is better suited.
         
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          Agree perovskites. Second one could be Teucrium lucidys, lovely small evergreen which can be clipped and used as a low hedge. The foliage is aromatic
           
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