What are these please?

We've inherited a few plants along with our garden, but as my knowledge is limited, I don't know what they are; I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me what they are?

The first one died right back for winter, leaving only a few wee twigs sticking up out of the soil:





This one is a tree (the pink bit is me ):







I'm thinking along the lines of rhododendron with these ones, but that has probably just shown me up for the complete novice that I am.





This last one is looking a bit sorry for itself, and although it tried to flower, most of the flower heads dropped off - I think that was a lack of water to start with, followed by the change back to cold weather after the flowers formed?

Thanks in advance for any help

 

Hi FC & Welcome from me by the way..

This are my conclusions, not sure how helpful but here goes..
1. ? (Thrown by the woody stems..)

2. Spotted Laurel.. Acuba japonica..

3. ? but feel I should looking at the leaves..

4. Rhodi.

5. changed this to Laurel after Trunky's post..

6. Camellia

 

Thank you both, and thanks for the welcome Marley Farley - really enjoying this forum, not least because everyone is so friendly

The camellia being dry last autumn is bang on then - we moved in here during September, and the house had been empty for a couple of months prior, so no care being given to the garden; to be honest, I didn't really take an awful lot of interest at the back end of the year either, and its been really dry here this winter (hence the hosepipe ban).

The first one with the woody stems - I think they may have been the remnants of the flowers (as in the flowers up on stems above the foliage).

I can try and get another picture of the tree tomorrow if it helps

 

#3 makes me think of Choisia ternata FC have a google & see what you think..

:WINK1: Is that your little dog as your avi.? Looks very sweet..

 

Had a Google - the flowers on my tree are much smaller. The best of it is, our old house had one of these in the back garden, and I never bothered to find out what it was - could it be an Elder? Google images look quite close?

And yeah, that's my wee man - Jack Russell crossed with a Chihuahua would you believe (either a very brave male Chihuahua, or a female one that was left with bits like a ripped out fireplace.....) - he does 'cute' exceptionally well though, and what he lacks in size he more than makes up in character.

Hard to say - leaves on that one look longer, and the central 'vein' looks more pronounced?

 

Thanks - Hopefully number 1 will flower at some point so we can confirm its identity; its a wee bit of a surprise present waiting in the garden at the moment

I think that I may have unwittingly made life uncomfortable for the camelia - I have been filling the border next to it with compost coming out of pots and baskets from last year, and its multi-purpose stuff that is not suitable for ericacious plants

I need to get more compost anyway this week, so I will get a bag of ericacious stuff and some feed and get it surrounded with that.

The grass and weeds are on the list for the weekend between myself and my missus (bless her, she is going to get the bulk of it, as I am working a double shift on Saturday and a late on Sunday) - the borders all the way round the garden have slowly became part of the lawn as subsequent tenants have apparently done very little in the garden care department, so we need to separate them from the lawn and make them pretty again.

 

Update!

I have deep pink bottle brush flowers appearing, so it would appear that it is indeed a persicaria! Thanks again all

 

Its a photo from earlier in the year - Flowers long gone on the camellia.