A few to identify - please help

I think 5 is a salvia, and the new one is a bistort.

 

YesI think it's a bistort as well. If you bought it in a nursery you'd have to pay extra to get those markings!

 

really? funny what pops up in your garden isn't it. that flowerbed used to be a sort of sunken rockery with lots of moss, LOADS of daffodils (I got about 400 bulbs - no exageration - out of about 3 metres of quite skinny flowerbed in between all the rocks) and not a lot else in there. so I dug up all the rocks and built a proper rockery elsewhere in the garden and planted it up with clematis, honeysuckle, fuschias, an ice plant I found elsewhere in the garden that looked unhappy but has now gone mad, oh and a hellebore and some lavender. funny little things are now popping up everywhere. I suppose me turning all the soil over, digging in compost etc and providing them with more space has given perhaps some seeds that were further down a chance to grow again.

thanks

 

Fair comment Madahhlia, like you, I don't subscribe to the 'if it's remotely risky, best get rid of it' school of thought which is all too prevalent nowadays.
I've pulled out bucketloads of the stuff over the years with no ill effects.
My guess is that children would be extremely unlikely to eat it anyway, as the milky sap would have a bitter and unpleasant taste.
I simply thought it was worth passing on, as the Wildflower book I referred to was printed in 1962, long before todays over cautious culture of fear took root and Keinnaf had mentioned having children in the garden.

 

I am glad you did. I try not to be overcautious with the older one but the toddler is still little so I tend to err on the side of caution a bit with her. I kept the barberry bushes because the berries taste horrid but aren't dangerous so I thought it was quite a good teaching plant so to speak. if they ignore me and try eating them then they learn berries are yukky but they don't get ill. I will probably remove the spurge from bits of the garden I know they pick things from and leave them down in the 'wild' area at the bottom where they aren't allowed to go because they would have to climb over a rockery to get there.