Help identify these trees/plant in new house's garden...

[Startingagainandagain]

I moved into a new house recently and this is my first Spring there (Kent coast).

I am trying to find out what's currently growing the garden so I can plan what to keep/remove/add.

I am really a beginner when it comes to gardening, so if anyone could help identify the following from the pics attached I would be really grateful!

Yellow one is Forsythia; second one a variety of rose. I don't have a clue about the third.

The yellow is forsythia and the leaves are acanthus (or Bear's Breeches).
You can cut back the forsythia after flowering and it'll flower next year. Some people find acanthus invasive but not in my garden I really like them

One type of acanthus

All keepers of you like them (personally I dislike forsythia). The rose may want pruning ... a photo showing the whole bush might give a better idea of what sort it is.

You can be brutal with the acanthus. Cut off any 'bad' leaves whenever, it won't mind at all. A good space filler, immune to disease and pests (it grows faster than slugs can eat it).

Very true. One of the very few plants that survive in my slug filled garden !

I've given up trying to beat the slugs. I now embrace them. I get plants which either grow too fast to defeat them (e.g. acanthus, salvia Amistad), or they don't like eating them (e.g. lavender), and/or I leave out old bits of cabbage for the slugs (they also like tired bananas).

It looks like honeysuckle in the background growing up the fence behind the rose.

There are lots off apps available, you just take a photo of something and they can tell you what it is and the care needs.

Forsythia- the yellow one. Typical to cut a few stems in a vase at easter😁
The red things are rosehips. They really should have been pruned so they didn't reach that stage, you probably want to remove them, look up rose pruning. You will see what colour the rose is in the early summer.
I think the last one might be an acanthus- a tall spiky thing.

Thank you so much everyone!

I will keep them and make sure I prune the roses.

The inside of the house needed so much work that I only started focusing on a garden a few weeks ago :).

Likewise @RogueFemale but the list of potential plants is small. Maybe I have olympian slugs but they devour any salvia I've tried including Amistad 😠
Japanese anemones , acanthus and wild geraniums are my only truly safe ones.
I keep my irises (favourite plant) in pots that I keep on the table to give them a fighting chance! Easier for me to pick off the buggers that scale the heights to reach them 😄

They can also make big mistakes. Use them as a starting point, not as a definitive answer.

It depends on which rose. Some roses are grown for their hips

They often get it spectacularly wrong though, and even if the ID is correct, the care information is usually from the perspective of growing the plant in a climate different from here in the UK.

Yeah you have to check each app out as normal some are better than others but generally I've had great success with identifying everything in our garden when we moved in but no longer have saved which app it was.
Honestly brilliant advice on some of them, quick & easy to use as a starting point👍🏻

Left hand one is forsythia, red berries are rosehips (seeds from rose flowers last summer). The green plant is acanthus. There are two sorts, one with thorns and one without. The one without is called bear's breeches and has tall purple and white flower spikes (like a lupin).

Thank you again everyone! really helpful.

What do people do with the rosehips? seems like a shame to cut them and throw them away...how can you use them?

Whatever you do, don’t be tempted to make rosehip cordial… they’re full of tiny tiny scratchy hairs inside and it’s very difficult to strain them all out. I wish I’d listened to my grandma when she told me this…

https://www.eatweeds.co.uk/rosehip-faq

As child of the early 60s I remember being given rose hip syrup. I think it was for the vitamin c 🤔

Even the good ones you have to check the id against other sources. But yes, as good a way as any to get a starting point.

I think I strained through a cloth. Result was fine, no problems from hairs

The other (mis) use of rose hips I remember from childhood was as diy itching powder!

Yes be careful the hairs very easy to miss some 😬