Please help identify

Hello all,

Hope you are well and keeping safe. I appreciate if you can help me identifying these three plants from my garden.

This one has been a bit ignored until now. Wondering what it is called and if there is anything I can do to encourage vertical growth.


This one unexpectedly arrived to this corner of the flowerbed. This spring there was two three beautiful, purple flowers. Is it a keeper ? And what is it called ?


Hopefully an easy one. Beautiful flowers in the spring. If it helps, flowers look like a perfect ball/sphere before blossoming.


Many thanks,

All the best

Charlie

 

Hi @CharlesAC The first one is (I think) a euonymus - I'm assuming it's quite shrubby close up? It is a sort of semi-climber, give it a nearby surface and it will sneak upwards. Also produces pretty little fruits if you're lucky. Second one is a variegated vinca. I happen to hate them because they take over and root wherever they touch. Some people like them because they are so vigorous. Third one is a herbaceous peony - good old cottage garden plant.