What is this plant?

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Does anyone know what this plant is? I’m not sure if it is a weed or a garden plant. It doesn’t spread & doesn’t flower, it just kind of hangs around in a corner of my garden, regrowing every year after I pull I out

Laurel I think.

Could be a Choisya?

I would go with one of the two above suggestions, choisya or laurel...pretty sure that most choisyas flower though, but if you have been pruning it maybe the flowers are not getting a chance.

very much a wing it and see gardener though so might be talking compost!

There's a free app, I believe called ' picture this' on which you take a photo of a flower or leaf and it tells you what it is 👍🏻

Not choisya, because that has leaflets in 3s - although you can half convince yourself that these have leaves in 3s, it's not as definite as choisya.

Leaves look too small for a laurel.

I think it's a golden variety of an evergreen euonymus (the evergreen relative of our native spindleberry) The dark green bits are where the natural colouring has come through. If you like the lighter colouring, you'll need to prune out the dark green bits - since they have more chlorophyll they'll obviously grow more vigorously and eventually take over completely.

Evergreen euonymous doesn't necessarily flower every year. If it does, it has small greenish flowers, which with luck are followed by brightly coloured berries in a contrasting coloured case. Attractive close-to, but not showy. They're usually planted just as a slow growing evergreen.

@MereDintofPandiculation thank you, I think you are quite right. I’ve googled and it very much looks like a euonymus.

Even better, there are some quite pretty varieties which is handy given I know they grow happily in my garden. Thanks!

I agree with euonymus, there's a whole variety of variegated and golden ones. Sometimes they revert and grow completely green branches, so it's best to cut them off otherwise they take over as they are more vigorous.