Identify climber

I just got some of this from my mums garden and I dont know what it is. I just know it has beautiful lilac/blue flowers, deep lustrous green leaves and is a creeping climbing sort of plant.

Does anyone know what it is??

 

It's a periwinkle 'vinca' is the latin name could be major or minor. It's a brilliant plant for promblem spots but it can be a bit invasive. Where the shoots touch the ground they grow roots so you end up with millions of plants. Cutting it back hard every now and then seems to keep it in check.

 

Great, thanks. I just posted 5 minutes ago!!

 

Here are two more I've got and dont know, a tree and a shrub. Any ideas?

thanks.


The tree




The shrub

 

the first one could be anything, you ll have to wait for blossom, i think it mite be a fruit tree . often ornamental
is the second one prickly?

[ 05. May 2006, 01:12 AM: Message edited by: Lady Gardener ]

 

The second one is Berberis, probably B.darwinii.

 

yes its prickly

 

I agree the second one is a berberis, the first is a plant I know, it tends to self sow around here, those bronze leaves, I believe, turn dark green later and very shiny.
It has pinkish flowers and red berries.
Could be totally wrong, but I think its a cotoneaster of some kind.

 

Cotoneaster Bullatus maybe?
Looks rather like the leaves on mine.

 

That looks like the one I'm thinking about Paladin