ID shrubs, please

Can anyone help identify these three shrubs in my new garden - Devon

! All photos taken on 2 January - but they are not evergreen, I think. Perhaps the mild autumn? All visible from any link!

1. 8ft, some leaves irregularly variegated in white, others green, die off a nice orange, slowly - started in October. Grows in part shaded area leaves of shrub 1 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! shrub 1 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

2.6 ft, all green, very gradually falling and becoming paler shrub2 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! leaves of shrub 2 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

3. 10 ft, grows in full shade, (almost) all leaves with white edges, now gradually becoming tarnished and fading away. More tree like than the others. Sorry for the poor photo, didn't notice the oak behind! shrub 3 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! leaves of shrub 3 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!

 

Good evening Tor and welcome to the site. 1/ is a variegated Photinia ( frormerly Stranvaesia ).
2/ and 3/ are both Pittosporums. All 3 are evergreen.

 

Welcome Tor, Just adding that the variegated Pittosporum is Silver Queen.

 

Couldn`t remember the variety, Strongy. Thank you.

 

ID Shrubs - thank you

Thank you all - also for the speedy reply

 

ID shrubds - question mark

Agree on the species of cruse, and on the whole bow to your greater experience but must say that several of the varieties are very similar to the Silver Queen - Garnetti, James Stirling - will study and compare more when I get back there - unfortunately still working but less than ten months now!

 

I was told last year, and a complete surprise to me, that pittosporums aren't infact evergreen, in exposed areas of the country, in many northern parts they lose their leaves in winter ; as i mentioned, it really surprised me.
What are others' view on that ?

 

Louise, there is no such thing as a true evergreen plant. Non deciduous plants should be re-classified as semi evergreen as they all lose leaves.

 

Devon isn't up north obv. but the garden and in particular the plain green pittosporum is in quite a windy spot - 500 ft up - so that may explain why they have lost soem leaves at least - and the Photinia is certainly losing some - and a beautiful strong orange they are too!

 

Tor, i've always found that pittosporums have a tendency to get very bare-stemmed if you're not careful, a lot i see are very open and bare-stemmed specimens.

There's one i have here (got dozens of 'em! Got a beautiful pittosporum hedge in my front garden) that i'll probably replace this year because i'm dissatisfied with the twiggy look, i want something far more dense there instead.

 

Go with Griselinia then Louise.

 

well, they were in the garden when i bought it - one of them does look a bit misshapen and bare - I'll see how it looks in summer but it might be for the chop - the other one looks very well where it is - lightens up a dark corner nicely.