id's please

Go these growing in my garden and unsure what they are, can you help me out please













Thank you

 

6 is winter jasmine

 

2 is a Ribes (Flowering Currants)
4 is Lathyrus of some description
5 is Kerria japonica flore plena I think (Jew's Mallow, double form).
6 is Jasmine nudiflorus.

 

That only leaves 1 & 3 which looks like Periwinkle.

 

1 could be Periwinkle as suggested, if not though it could also be Viburnum tinus, although it's amost certain periwinkle on photo 3 because of the creeping stems.

 

4 is most likely Everlasting Sweet Pea (Lathyrus latifolius) although I don't have any concrete evidence just that it's the most likely :WINK1: and 5 looks like Jews Mallow (Kerria japonica)

other than that I'd say everyone is spot on

 

Agree with Periwinkle (Vinca major) for 1 and 3. In my experience this is a really awful pernicious weed. OK as ground cover under trees/shrubs if you don't want anything else (if you can keep it in contained with e.g. a mown grass barrier), but left unchecked it spreads and spreads. It's main good points are that it doesn't seed (as far as I know), it doesn't really spread underground (just by surface stolons, very quickly) and it's pretty susceptible to glyphosate.

 

Periwinkle can be a bit invasive but to be honest it's very pretty

 

Are Periwinkles not native to UK?

 

I'm not positive off hand but I'm pretty sure their one of those "good idea at the time" plants the Victorians introduced

 

Quote from wiki...re Vinca.

"This species native to southern Europe and northern Africa is distributed from Spain and southern France east to the western Balkans, and also in northeastern Turkey and the western Caucasus."

 

Yep just checked an Keble has V. major down as naturalised/garden escapee :WINK1: