I will identify anything I can, and I love mushrooms, so this is the result. Great photos, I can rarely bend down low enough to photograph...
The second and third ones down on the top row look like some kind of Mycena. And the first and last ones in the bottom row seem to be coral...
It looks great.
Don't apologize, you've done nothing wrong.
Well, I can't take a photo RIGHT now, because it's ten o'clock at night, but it is in part sun, some grape hyacinths and dandelions growing next...
I believe that it is an Alberta spruce. It looks far too healthy to cut down. This is not a tree that is close enough to dead to make it worth...
My hydrangea produces only 4 or 5 blooms on average. Does anyone know why?
The butterfly is a Fritillary, I think.
The leaves are wrong for groundsel.
'Autumn Joy' and the species Sedum spectabilis are hardy from zones 3 to 10. There are probably more, but 'Autumn Joy' is one of the most well-known.
Photos, please, or has it died back already?
Not astilbe. Sedum, maybe 'Autumn Joy' but it doesn't look like the one I have so perhaps not.
I would again like to congratulate you on the marvelous pictures. I have never seen a Pileated Woodpecker when I had a camera with me, but the...
Can you get a close-up of the leaves?
Looks a lot like the Dahlias in my yard except brighter. Probably a Dahlia.
Have you been paying a lot of attention to it in the evening? If it is a night bloomer then blooms should probably show up in the evening.
I hear that they can grow indoors but the flowering is sometimes put off.
That's bamboo if ever I saw it.
A toad. Great picture, by the way. I'm not familiar with amphibians in your area, though.
That is definitely not an Oleander. I agree with others, it is a Rhododendron. I can't help on the exact variety, though.
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