The first plant is a perennial called Dicentra spectabilis 'alba' and yes, that'll be flowering now, it'll be happy with a few hours shade each day and any soil really.
The second plant i'm sure is CISTUS not Citrus.
That is an evergreen shrub with beautiful papery flowers in the summer - it likes lots of sun and any soil.
This past extremely cold winter could have killed it off so cut it back, scrape a bit of the bark off with your fingernail and see if there's any green under the outer bark - if yes it's alive if no .... it might have been killed off.
Incidently, i cut mine beack very hard indeed and have never had a problem !

I have both plants in my gardens too.

That last plant i have no knowledge of, sorry.

Hey Louise!,

Thanks so very much for your reply! And yeah I keep saying CITRUS but as you correctly state it's CISTUS! When you say cut back hard shall I cut right down to ground or just to the point where there is green under the bark?

Cheers

I had to google the last plant you mention, Zamioculcas. According to Wikipedia -
"It can be kept outdoors as long as the temperature does not fall below around 15 °C (59 °F); best growth is between 18 °C to 26 °C (65° to 79 °F)."

So in Britain it's an indoor plant that you might be able to put out for a short while in summer, provided it doesn't get too cool at night. It's only an outdoor plant in the tropics!

Cut back your Cistus up to the point where you find green under the bark. If you don't find any green right down to the ground it has probably had it.

bleeding heart white.

That sounds rude Tengered! ;-)

Tengered, sorry to be pedantic but it's better to give the official name really because mistakes can so often be made if you give the common names - that's why i did it.

We've seen it on here quite a few times where the, often novice gardener, gives the wrong treatment to a plant because of muddled plant names - so Dicentra it is :-)

Beattie pretty much pegged the Zamioculcus! We grow them both indoors and outdoors, here, but with the frost we had this last winter, the outdoor ones really got hammered. To flesh out the indoor culture, they can take fairly low light, but more than 3 meters from the window, and the new leaves can get pretty stretched. They like to dry out between watering--we only water them about once every 2-3 months, here. Any good houseplant food is sufficient, but with that infrequent watering schedule, you won't be putting it on often.

Hey all thanks again for all the advice. The Zamioculcas is now a resident in the house and I ended cutting my Cistus plants down to about 3" stems. Even then there was only a sign of green in centre of stem so Im hoping they are hanging in there and I will continue to remain optimistic!