Solved Hi! New garden!

Hi all! Moved into new pad in east Devon. Looking to create a veg patch but there are a few shrubs in the way... are they worth keeping/transplanting?

Any help greatly appreciated

 

Welcome to the forum. If you have room for them I would transplant them and see what comes.

 

Hello and welcome to GC forums

 

The first one is a Camelia
2nd one looks like Choisia (?)
3rd one is Honeysuckle, Lonicera.
or maybe it's Hypericum lol, can't decide. Someone might now.

You could keep them if you like them or get rid, it depends on whether you like them or not.

 

I would move them for the time being until you reach a decision. Personally I would definitely keep the Camelia.

I was going to welcome you to the forum too, but then realised you joined just after I did back in 2017 . Doh!! Just remembered I even posted on one of your threads too. It's been a long day! That's my excuse.

 

2nd looks like a euonymus fortunei.

3rd hypericum.

I'll have a look later when I'm on pc for a better look.

 

Did you keep the Bay Tree @Jack Snakes ?

 

Hello Jack, welcome back! That second one could be Griselinia. It's pretty widely planted in the SW. A useful evergreen, if not earth-shatteringly exciting You know the drill for aftercare if you do move them now? Keep the top growth in proportion to the roots and give evergreens shelter and plenty of water through the summer.

 

When you said new garden I jumped to the conclusion you were a new member. Should have gone to Specsavers!

 

well I left a few branches... although I found another on the opposite side of the garden, about 20m away... just a wee thing, about a foot high, but absolutely no doubt about this one... it's actually in the patch where I took the pictures... I was thinking of digging them up and putting my herbs in there, along with a few other bits and pieces... so much to do both inside and outside with this house... but it's ours, so I have time...

 

1. Camellia.
2. Not sure...not Choisya or Griselina.
3 Hypericum.
Turned pics

 

in 2017 I was in Charmouth... a year later I moved back to Bridport... in December last year I finally bought a place... a bungalow in east Devon... 2 x 5 square metre patches of stones out front, that i will shovel into bags and offer to anyone who wants them.. left hand side will be a lawn, and the good lady can have what she wishes there... left hand side has space for my 2x3m wildlife pond... around back is at least 125 square metres of garden... populated with a few apple trees ( they'll be coming down...) a few other trees I have no idea what they are... also coming down.. a cherry laurel that has grown almost horizontally because of pine trees above it blocking its light... the pine trees and the cherry laurel will be going.. massive beech and ash on the southern and Easter side of the garden are under a TPO... they won't be going anywhere... so many plans for the back though...

 

Sounds fabulous but why get rid of so many trees, especially the fruit ones. We're all being encouraged to plant trees now. Get snapping with your camera,we need some pics please.

 

It sounds so many doesn't it... probably 12 in total... so the garden has been neglected for a while, hence the gravel everywhere both front and back. The seven pine trees are along the eastern border of the garden and bits of them drop onto our neighbour's roof every time the wind blows. Our neighbour to the north has also mentioned that the one nearest her fence is overhanging and creating a nuisance. Also, nothing grows under them - they block the light and, on average, a pine needle takes 7 years to break down. There is another apple tree under the pine in the north east corner. It gets zero light, so has grown almost horizontally out from about 4 feet up, and is now overhanging the greenhouse. The cherry laurel is another light thief - again, nothing grows under it and, for the same reason as the apple tree, it grows at a 45º angle towards the house... it has to go! Or at least, be cut right back and forced to straighten up after the pine trees are removed. I have 6 fruit trees ready to go in instead of these things - apple, cherry, and plum. There will be no need to touch the beech and ash that form the east and southern edge of the garden, except for a little cutting back of lower limbs that are overhanging the roof. They are currently home to a rookery - noisy buggers but most welcome... Oh, and there are 4 leylandii out front again on the southern edge - they will also be going.
I will take some pictures this week...

 

Gosh...sounds like you live in a forest!

I can understand why now though. We had a lot of Leylandii many years ago and they all had to go too.
Lack of light certainly distorts trees...well most things really and makes them grow at weird angles.
Looking forward to seeing some pics.