To contact my vendor?

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We moved to this house last year, and we love love love it. We inherited a mature garden, which had clearly had a lot of time and money lavished on it. Enter DH and I, who are at best aspiring gardeners! We have done a pretty decent job this year, and managed to bring through quite a bit.

However, there are a few plants that I just don’t know what they are. I’ve taken photos, google imaged them; the lot. I don’t know what they are. I want to care for the garden properly.

Would I be unreasonable to leave a message with the estate agent we went through last year to see if we can contact them to ask what the plants are?

You might be able to hire a local gardener to do a garden audit for you. They could identify the plants and then you could look them up (or if they were so minded, they could give you a report of how to care for them).

The first tree looks like a Holm oak.

nemno the first tree doesn’t fruit at all though; would it need to in order to classify as a pear? The purple tree is very vigorous; this is our second summer here and we are indeed looking at majorly clipping back this year.

I think the first tree is a white willow.

Second the poster who said the second tree looks like an ornamental plum.

And yes the top pic looks like asiatic lilies.

It's defo not a holm oak - although the leaves on that come out a similarly silvery colour, they're a different shape altogether, and are sometimes similar in appearance to holly.

We have a plum tree that never gets a flower or a plum! So yours could be a pear tree.

Our pear hasn't flowered this year either, so that doesn't rule it out. It's the slightly wavy leaves and white stems that make me think Weeping Silver leafed pear also known as Willow Leaved Pear.

Hmm yes maybe an ornamental plum tree at the back then, the fruits come about late June-July and do look like miniature plums.

The purple tree looks like prunus cerasifera nigra. It’s my favourite type of tree!

OP your tree looks a bit like mine and does produce tiny plums it's a 'cherry plum' prunus cerasefira , does it blossom quite early?

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FASH84 yes, this year (it was our first spring here though so I’ve no other comparison) it blossomed before any other trees produced any blossom round here.

What we think are the lilies haven’t flowered yet, and I don’t remember them flowering last year either. The RHS website says they should flower around midsummer; if they don’t I should pull them out right? Or should I expect them to be an annual?

I bet they'd love to hear from you. Go for it.

Plant identifier app.

I know someone on here said the one where botanists help you is really good.

I would love it if someone contacted me to find out how to care for a garden I had left. I would be happy to know that they are enjoying it and want to care for it.

I have told my kids that when I die they are only to sell the house to someone who likes gardening. That I will haunt the purchaser if they pull it up and lay AstroTurf.😱