Originally Posted by nick the grief

No1 - I can't remember the damn name !!! (old Age) it's something like syringia - I know thats lilac so it's it's not that ....... aaaaarggghhh where's me big book .....
No 2 is Plumbago ( not the pain in the back thats called smething else)
No 3 is a Hebe don't know which one - (or maybe a shrubby Veronica)
No 4 looks all the world like a Variageted Ceanothus but it's mightly late ( or very early) flowering