Mystery plants - please help identify!

[heebiejeebie]

The first two came with the house & garden, the third one is a hebe but I'd like to know which one and the fourth is one I bought, planted and then put the info label "in a safe place".

The first one is usually one of the earliest to flower in spring, masses of tiny white clusters.

Anybody know what they are?

[rustylady]

Number 1 could be jasmine, but I'm not sure. Number 3 is definitely your hebe, could be Autumn Glory.

[suee]

The second one looks like a plumbago flower?
Sue.

[heebiejeebie]

Ta! I've been googling...
1. don't think it's jasmine - no scent.
2. Yes, looks like plumbago!
3. not Autumn Glory - the leaves are wrong but the flowers are (were!) purple

[Sebbster]

The colour of the stems in the first picture, and the early flowering lead me to believe it may be a dogwood.

[nick the grief]

No1 - I can't remember the damn name !!! (old Age) it's something like syringia - I know thats lilac so it's it's not that ....... aaaaarggghhh where's me big book .....
No 2 is Plumbago ( not the pain in the back thats called smething else)
No 3 is a Hebe don't know which one - (or maybe a shrubby Veronica)
No 4 looks all the world like a Variageted Ceanothus but it's mightly late ( or very early) flowering

[NSB]

1. dunno
2. wild flower
3. hebe
4. dunno guessing varigated mint!

[heebiejeebie]

Thanks! I'll get googling again.

[heebiejeebie]

Cool! I just found out that Hebe and shrubby Veronica are the same thing. Never knew that!

4. not mint, but I did wonder about ceanothus!

[Curvy Vixen]

No 4 looks all the world like a Variageted Ceanothus but it's mightly late ( or very early) flowering

I thought that no 4 was a variageted Ceanothus too...started to murder mine yesterday and they were all in bloom so don't let that fool ya...darned weather!!!

[kentvegplot]

Could the first one be the shrub known as 'Bridal Wreath'? (I think it IS a Spirea....)

[heebiejeebie]

Oooh it does look like that kentvegplot! Thanks! I never thought of spiraea - all my other spiraeas are pink/purple!

so:
1- Spiraea "Bridal Wreath"
2- Plumbago
3- hebe
4- probably variegated ceanothus

Thanks all!

(still wish I knew which hebe(s) I've got!)

[rustylady]

No1 - I can't remember the damn name !!! (old Age) it's something like syringia - I know thats lilac so it's it's not that ....... aaaaarggghhh where's me big book .....
No 2 is Plumbago ( not the pain in the back thats called smething else)
No 3 is a Hebe don't know which one - (or maybe a shrubby Veronica)
No 4 looks all the world like a Variageted Ceanothus but it's mightly late ( or very early) flowering

Pain the back = lumbago, Nick.