Physocarpus ?

Daphne odora 'Aureomarginata'.

Yes carol, I should have written Tecoma, rather than the old name Tecomaria. Decades of using old names die with difficulty for some plants. Just as Zauschneria is now Epilobium, depending upon name resistance of the labeler. ---------------------- gardengal, I was only there briefly. But it appears they just paid the landscape maintenance company to throw in new plants to renovate the landscape. The strip mall's owners don't know about suitable plants and design, and apparently the maintenance workers don't care, or know little more. There are going to be problems maintaining their plant choices down the road, and butchering them is likely going to be their solution. The massed grass is in the bed in the upper right (sparse and has not filled in yet). The bird of paradise and kangaroo paw is in the distant bed in the upper left of the original photo.

There is a perennial ageratum, commonly called mist flower, scientific name Conoclinium coelestinum (no, I didn't remember that, and won't try to pronounce it ;-). It is native to southeastern U.S. and is reportedly winter hardy to zone 5.