Top one's Aucuba japonica (spotted laurel) can't tell what themiddle one is, and the bottom one, too close - could be a grass or it could be a Phormium.

Could the middle one be a very straggly Choisya Ternata ?
I'm just going by the leaf formation,at the bottom of the picture..in the centre ..Probably wrong,but worth a guess..

Middle one could be another aucuba, green one, stretched up to the light under trees? Bottom one possibly carex pendula, pendulous sedge, which is rather invasive when it seeds about.

Middle pic, leaves toward the top of the bush look broader towards the tip, which could suggest Magnolia?
Bottom pic looks like a native sedge Carex Pendula, rip it all out NOW, I kid you not. Invasive, vigorous, very fertile and the seeds persist in the soil for decades. Or keep it to provide an over-wintering habitat for all your precious slugs and snails ;)

Whatever that centre picture is, its a gaunt looking, unattractive thing... would like to see close up of the leaves, particularly the ones at the top.
And sorry Teadrinker, but I don't think that's Carex pendula in the bottom picture - that has plain green leaves, this one's rather attractively striped.

1.Spotted laurel
2.Possibly magnolia - looking at the top leaves with the sunlight on them. Bonsai growers would love that tortured shape!
3. I'm with Bamboo - looks like a phormium to me but really difficult to tell without the whole plant and something by which to gauge its size.

I think the 'striping' is the effect of the light on the pleated leaves, and that pleated leaf is typical of carex.

I agree the top one is Aucuba, I have them in my garden, the bottom one I would say also, that it is a sedge which I also have in my garden, ok so long as you take the f lower heads off before they seed!!! The middle does look like a neglected Magnolia.

Bottom pic reminds me of palm seedlings, so a larger pic would be good.

Many thanks again everyone.