Please help me identify these

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We have just moved house and there are a lot of plants/trees in our new garden. We want to add lawn and make it a bit more family friendly but obviously want to keep some of the plants.

I don't know anything about plants so am curious about what these ones are. Can anyone help?

Wild guess but Japanese Acer, some other acer and a camellia. Google them and see if I’m right.

First one can't tell as too far away, second one is an Acer palmatum (or Japanese maple), third one is a camellia.

Do the leaves on the first one look similar to the second one? If so, it is another acer, just with purple leaves, so Acer palmatum atropurpureum.

The first two are Acers and the third is camellia.

Thank you so much.

Have attached close up of first

A couple more...

lucky you, the green fan-shaped leaf one is a Ginkgo tree and the other may be a Pieris

Tricky to tell from the picture, but those purple flowers under the yellow green Acer look suspiciously like Spanish bluebells.
I’d pull them up and throw away, replace them with native British bluebells.

Oh really. Thanks for the advice, is that because they are invasive? Have attached a close up of them to confirm.

Another odd one..

They cross breed with native British bluebells producing hybrid plants and native British bluebells are becoming increasingly rare as a result.
Native British ones are prettier anyway and they have a nice scent to them too

Im wondering if the last one is a wisteria which has been cut right back? If so buds should be starting to unfurl now in to leaves.

Im wondering if the last one is a wisteria which has been cut right back? If so buds should be starting to unfurl now in to leaves

Perhaps, it looks there are training wires behind it so it must be some sort of mature flowering vine.

I wouldn't disagree with anything people have posted so far, just wanted to say there are some lovely shrubs and trees in your new garden, the previous owners have left you a gorgeous legacy (and a valuable one - things like Japanese maples aren't cheap! 😀)

Thank you. And thank you all so much for your help! The previous owners were keen gardeners but very elderly and the house needs a lot of modernisation. It's lovely to have been left such beautiful trees to enjoy. It might encourage me to get into gardening!

Those plants are very low maintenance too. Just about now I would give them an ericaeous feed and mulch with ericaeous compost. Then sit back and enjoy.

Not Spanish bluebells which are rarely seen in the UK, but hybrid bluebells which will further hybridise with native one. Our native bluebell woods don't seem to be under as much threat as feared (partly because the hybrids are not so good at coping with shade), but bluebells in or near habitation are.

About 30 years back, most of the bulbs being sold as "bluebells" were the hybrids, and that's when most of the damage was done. Then it became more widely known that there was a difference between the hybrids and the natives. But you still have to be really careful when buying natives a) to make sure they are genuine natives b) to make sure they have been propagated specially and not taken from bluebell woods.