What are these please?

Hi - still trying to get to grips with the palnts around my garden. Any help would be gratefully received!

thanks
Gavin.

 

Could the first one be Borage? very pretty frozen into an ice cube and put into your gin or pimms in the summer. :-)

 

1. I agree with Marley Farley. Pentaglottis sempervirens. Common name green alkanet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentaglottis_sempervirens

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Pe...&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1247&bih=497

Borago officinalis. Borage flowers are a different shape. Agree they are wonderful frozen in an ice cube.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?um=1...lis&aq=0&aqi=g1g-m2&aql=&oq=Borago+officinali

 

Thanks for the feedback - i'll skip the ice-cubes for now!

 

What are they

No. 2 is Potentilla.
No. 3 looks like a Choysia

 

I agree with Marley Farley.
3. Is Buxus. Common name box.

Choisya leaves come in 3's. See....

http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgu...&ndsp=11&ved=1t:429,r:4,s:49&biw=1247&bih=496

 

Last one looks like some kind of Rhododendron to me.

Sorry see you've been there before me

 

2. The Potentilla.
Just to be correct, it has had a change of name and is now Dasiphora fruticosa.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...m=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1247&bih=496