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@clickhere I *think* the first one could be willow herb. You can ferment the leaves and make tea from them.

@conor Thank you! A couple of peeps have said willow herb, too, so I'm taking that as a consensus. (Now, to google that tea-making..!)

@clickhere I thought I had a recipe in a notebook but I don't. The idea is you take a loaf of leaves and roll them up. Place the ball of leaves into the palm your hand and use your other thumb and other palm to crush them a bit. Basically you want to break the surface and get the juices moving a bit, so it gets exposed to natural yeast. Repeat für lots of leaves and pack them into the bottom of a glass jar, then leave for a while to ferment. Then dry them out, and use like tea leaves.

@conor Ooh, interesting! I may give that a go.

@PhilRudland Aha, thank you! I'll have to do a wee bit of research about them, as I'm really fairly clueless (first garden woes).

@clickhere oops. Bit slow on the response.

@elliottucker Hah, no problem at all, I appreciate it. (I reckon it's good to get a few replies, esp if there are any which can be easily confused and the differential identification is made a bit easier with multiple opinions.)