To find the photo number, if you hover your mouse over a photo, your bottom browser bar should show info which includes the number in the slideshow (the first is "0"). As for the plants: -I think the ground cover in #13 & 44 is Creeping Jenny (Lysimachia Nummularia). Very useful in shade, but can spread much farther than you intend if not controlled every year (yes, this is from experience) -The "phlox?" #52 looks like a penstemon (there are many) -The "vine?" #53 looks very like my blue "potato vine" Solenum jasminoides, which means it could be a cultivar, but more likely it's one of the nightshades. -I agree that the NW bush #51 is probably a weigela, esp if that's the one with the soft, bell-shaped scarlet flower on your other page. With pruning this should be fabulous. -#48 looks similar to an aster that I have, when it's first struggling to grow up and leaf out in the spring. Doesn't bloom until late summer. Maybe give it a chance? Unless there are lots of them, in which case it's probably a weed, yes. -As for those asparagus - Enjoy! We have another year to wait til ours look like that - I hope! Jan in Seattle

I don't know what this is but your Hydrangeas are still there down on the right and are getting overshadowed by the mystery shrub.

Ostrich, a friend has both the Mohican viburnum and a variegated form happily thriving in her low lying zone 2 garden located near Rimbey, AB. Yes, those are the flower buds for next year and my friend says they reliably bloom for her. The smokebush will freeze back to the ground and act as herbaceous shrub, that's if it does not outright winterkill completely, so indeed protect it well for winter. I have the regular dark purple variety that performs as a perennial, though I know of one large shrub in Edmonton that has been hardy to the tips and I should have gone earlier this summer and requested permission to take a few snips.

Oregon makes things slightly more difficult :-) It could be a commercial hazelnut that has managed to escape the eastern hazel blight that has decimated the OR hazel industry in recent years. It could just as easily be a native species, Corylus cornuta, that grows wild throughout much of the northwest and into California. The nuts would be the key, if you can find any. Nut production is not high with a single plant as they tend to be self-incompatable so may not be many to begin with. And squirrels tend to grab them before you can ;-)