I thought of Philadelphus before reading Anty's post, John, but the real test is to inhale its perfume at dusk...heavenly if it is indeed a Philadelphus. Its flowers do vary in size, though those do look quite small.
It'll be in that garage of yours John! 

Escallonia is a seaside plant par excellence.  We have a couple of bushes in the garden and it is absolutely rampant - would happlily take the place over if it wasn't cut back regularly.

This little devil?



You got that right, PW. It redefines the term, 'hardy'. 

As I can't find the 'Look what I bought' thread, this will have to go here....



...along with a couple of nice Veronicas and a Salvia Purple Rain

Tommo

PS   Member Barrett and "The Artist formerly known as..." on the same gardening post?  What is going on...!

That melianthus looks lovely Tommo, very dramatic.  I find veronica grows like a weed.

My garden is a total disgrace, a total jungle, at the moment.  I am going to get a quote from someone to sort it out.  Trouble is his name is Damian    and according to his website he has a passion for music.  I can't imagine what he might be like!!!  Either it'll be Radio 1 blasting out or he'll be singing arias whilst he wrestles with the ragwort!

Here's some ragwort I took in July 2006 at Halesowen Cricket Club, pretty flowers as you say MJ



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Hmm...looks a bit like geraniumn endressii to me John. I have at least half a dozen different geraniums in my garden but there are 100s.

Yes it does, and I thought it looked like Erodium but as tommo/wiki says it's all in the stamens/anthers, and if you look at my large photo you can see there's not 10.


Ha, not in the garage in fact the garden map wasn't in a notebook, it was drawn on an A4 sheet that I've just this evening found in ..... tucked in the back pages of the very book I was looking at before  it's been there for maybe 13 or more years (the back pages are of trees of which I have just two in the garden, a cherry and a plum - that darn plum tree, at any one time there's about a dozen tiny plum trees sprouting around the garden 

I did also find 'the notebook' I was thinking of, which was in fact about the pond that was created about the same time.

So I've identified the two white flowered shrubs. I was sure Philadelphus was not on that side of the garden and indeed my trusty map tells me it's a Deutzia and the variety is Deutzia gracilis the very one on wiki's page on that shrub.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutzia

There's a lot of plants/shrubs not survived since the the map was drawn, the hardiest shrubs have taken over and formed an eight-foot high wall of foliage two sides of the garden, including the other white-flowered shrub that I pictured above which if I'm selecting correctly from the map appears to be Cytisus Alba or a white variety of Broom, it has some nasty thorns on it now, up to 2cms long.

Out of about 50 shrubs planted in the garden, about 20 have survived. I didn't buy all 50, most of them were grown from small clippings that I learned to grow in little pots with little plastic bags over them. Anyone else done that? I picked the clippings from local areas, mostly landscaping round supermarkets and business parks 

I know the variety of the roses now, and I found the real Philadelphus on the other side of the garden, just starting to flower this week.


John W