I haven't looked yet but just wishing you a Happy Birthday tomorrow!

It's hard to see but the burgundy ones in front may be loropetalum unless they have spines..then they are barberry.
What's in the rear..the varigated ones look like varigated euonymous which grow huge and wide so need a lot of space or annual shearing. The others I just can't see the leaves well enough to identify.

Thank you -- and thanks for the b-day wishes.

I will try to get some closer up shots. I should have realized that they would be hard to see that way.

I will google what you mentioned and see if that's what they are!

That looks like variegated Ligustrum sinense behind the barberry.

Thank you. Thanks to you I have found what I have (despite my terrible picture) is:

Nandina (don't know if it is full size or dwarf)
Loropetalum
Ligustrum sinensis 'Variegata'

And one unknown.

I appreciate it.

Julia

I have that variety of Ligustrum. It grows extremely fast and needs a little elbow room. The honey bees love it though so it will draw pollinators to your flowers. :)

yeah, ligustrum...that's what I meant. Grows fast like privet and makes a good screen but needs a lot of room.

Ligustrum=privet (one is the scientific name and one is the common name). But maybe you knew that, dottie.

Luckily this variegated version doesn't seem to set seed; it's parent, the plain green one, of course seeds like crazy and is the number 1 invasive plant in the SE (sneakier than kudzu!).

We just finished pulling out all the variegated ligustrum (privet) on our property because they are listed as invasive. We tried for several years to keep them trimmed to keep them from blooming. After another recent reminder about the invasiveness, we pulled all of them out. On the positive side, I planted salvia and agastache for hummingbirds in the empty space.

Cameron

Wow, what a wealth of information. So, I guess it will do the job now of filling up some space in our bed. I will gladly pull them later if need be and thank goodness they don't reseed themselves.

As I am sure you all know, starting from scratch is a huge project and we wanted to make the beds large because of all the work involved -- then we won't have to expand later. On the other side of the bed we are putting some camellias (I really like those) and leaving blank space but the side with this grouping I kind of wanted to "fill" with something nice looking but inexpensive, etc. We did a very large concrete block veggie garden in the back this year, too, so we are undertaking a lot, for us.

I definitely don't want something like kudzu taking over, but it sounds like it will be OK as long as I am willing to pull them out later. By then I will probably know more about which plants I want there.

Today we tilled and started planting.