Thank you so much for all of your help everyone! I love the look of the camphor tree, but it definitely doesn't sound like a realistic option for our front yard. To the folks who said that the "vine" was escallonia, I went to my local nursery to look at it, and it was definitely a match! And yes, to the person who said it might be lanky because it was lacking in light...it was buried under a huge honeysuckle! It's a pretty little plant and when I pulled back the honeysuckle, there it was. I've realized that I'm going to have to slow down a bit. We are blessed that our new house has a big yard. I'm trying to figure out exactly what I want to plant everywhere and to identify all of the things I don't know. But again...its a big yard and its been largely untended so theres a lot to do! I might end up going with the ficus nitidia for the front yard. I just love the look of them and there's a local grower that sells massive ones. I probably wouldn't buy the biggest--those are like 20k! For one tree! But even the step down ones are massive and appear big enough to be climbable within the year. And they have big sales pretty regularly. Oh, and I think tree #5 might be a western redbud! Maybe? I love those! But I think they stay fairly small? They're so pretty, maybe I'll find some other spot for it..

in my experience.. wild bird sown bramble is rarely worth the space it will eventually take over ... world domination is in its genetics.. lol .. if you want to grow berries... go buy a named cultivar .. and enjoy it ... there is no down side.. if you just observe this one until it fruits.. and then remove it if they are the usual crunchy seedy useless berries ... ken

Seems to me that Murphy's Law dictates that the most likely candidate for all these roses in the woods is Rosa multiflora.

It is another bramble, a Rubus sp.