By Monjardinlra
Limousin,
France 
IDs please for any of these?! I DID take notes, "honest, guv", when on a visit to this beautiful garden in the UK last week, but found when I got home that nearly all the jottings I made from the kind and knowledgeable Head Gardener's guided walk-around, had been blurred out by the incessant wind and rain that day... (NB to myself: take indelible pencil next time!)
Thanks, everyone!
1 Jun, 2013
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I believe the last one might be Lamium, a type of nettle.
1 Jun, 2013
the third looks like dead nettle but could be wrong, sorry but hope it helps!
1 Jun, 2013
PS: photo 1 (small tree) looks sideways on (looked all right on my laptop!) - apologies...
1 Jun, 2013
Hi Lizziebee and Catty, yes I thought the third one looked Lamium-like (this wasn't one I saw when with the Gardener) but if so it was much bigger than any dead-nettles I know (used to grow lamium maculatum for groundcover) - the photo was taken from on top but the plant was a good 2ft 6in or so high...
Do they come in bigger sizes?
1 Jun, 2013
Bird cherry (prunus padus), exochorda macrantha 'The Bride', and lamium orvala, which I love. Tough and a little different.
1 Jun, 2013
Thanks, Sophiemears, re photo 2 = Exochorda; I remember now the guy called it the Pearlbush, and said it was in the rose family, have just found images to match on Google - so can now file the photo accordingly!
1 Jun, 2013
Wow, thanks also, Worthy1 - such a speedy response! (hope it doesn't mean you're like me, kept away from actual gardening by current thundery rain!)
1 Jun, 2013
I've seen a tall lamium like that at a local nursery - sorry i can't remember the variety.
1 Jun, 2013
As Worthy says, the third one is definitely lamium orvala
1 Jun, 2013
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The only one I know is the second one, Exochorda.The pearl bush.
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