ID of some plants at East Ruston Old Vicarage

Need help with these please folk:

1) Some sort of Salvia perhaps?





2) Could do with the variety of this one, or one with a similar shade of Red:



3) Persicaria I presume, again variety with this (or similar) colour flower
please:



4) I think this is a Gladiolous species? But yet again its the colour I'm after:

 

5) Lobellia maybe? Perhaps one of the Fan Scarlet ones?




6) Fuchsia I assume - no idea which one though :(



7) Ivy grown as a "hedge" - how do you do that? close planting, "train" upwards somehow, and then hedge clippers when at the right height and they will keep on throwing up new shoots searching for the light? Or is it some special variety / technique?

 

1. Looks like Lobelia tupa.
Need to see a close up to be sure.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lobelia tupa&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&channel=np&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=JfcoUJnKJ42KhQe374GICA&biw=1184&bih=594&sei=KfcoUKP-DMzCtAbf5oGYCw

2. Begonia sp. Maybe begonia x benariensis red.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&pq=begonia+x+benariensis&cp=25&gs_id=g&xhr=t&q=begonia+x+benariensis+red&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1536&bih=776&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=WvgoUMCOMcKXhQfThYH4Bg

3.. Persicaria amplexicaulis. Probably a named cultivar.
Such as Persicaria amplexicaulis Taurus.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Persicaria+amplexicaulis+Taurus.&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D12&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=KfkoUODcM4SBhQeLnoGgCw&biw=1536&bih=776&sei=LPkoUJP4J4jGtAaF-oGYCA


4. Gladiolus sp. Maybe Gladiolus papilio Ruby.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Gladiolus+papilio+Ruby&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1536&bih=776&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=JPMoUMnIKNGDhQeknoD4Bg

5. Lobelia. Maybe Lobelia x speciosa Russian Princess.

http://www.specialperennials.com/images/Lobelia/LobeliaRussianPrincessP8140027.JPG

http://www.thepottedgarden.co.uk/product/list/47/Perennials/?letter=L&page=8

6. Fuchsia. Maybe Fuchsia boliviana.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fuchsia+boliviana&sugexp=chrome,mod%3D12&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=h_EoUJXTIMa3hQf1roDAAw&biw=1536&bih=776&sei=ifEoUP7jLMzKsga3koDoAw

7. Will leave for others to help you.
Hope this helps.
SS

 

If you take cuttings of Ivy from the mature growth at the top of them, they act more like shrubs than climbers. If you look at the top growth on Ivies the leaves are slightly different. Or you could buy Hedera helix arborescens which is basically the same thing and propagate from that. It makes a shrub of about a metre tall.

 

Oh and the Gladiolus could well be a Watsonia. they look like Gladiolus but there is a really gorgeous red one, name escapes me at present.

 

W. flanaganii (or something like that).

 

Brilliant, ta. I did know that Ivy did a different "thing" when it got to daylight at the top of a tree, and that many plants have juvenile/adult states and that propagating from the Adult state usually preserves that in the "child" ... never put the two together though!

I expect that, given all its aerial roots etc., Adult-state ivy will root as easy as pie ... that would make a project like this cheap to do I reckon.

 

Never tried it, to be honest. We have a 'tree' ivy and never needed another one. Can tell you that you can prune them very hard and they come back very quickly.
Just been to look and the tree one does not seem to have the clinging mechanism of the juvenile stage.

 

According to RHS and other sources this is Gladiolus flanaganii rather than Watsonia flanaganii.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&tok=mikhMVRTGsAJz1yB3h-GSg&pq=flanaganii&cp=1&gs_id=2&xhr=t&q=gladiolus flanaganii&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&biw=1463&bih=705&wrapid=tljp134489375915900&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=SXMpUO79B8nVtAaQgYHoBg
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http://www.pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/index.php/SouthernAfricanGladiolusFour

 

So it is, I was going by the label on the plants shown at various plant shows, rather than looking it up.