Plant Id's new garden that's overgrown and new Gardner

[MissCherryCakeyBun]

We are buying a house with a once much lived garden that's got a bit out of hand, we are new to gardening and I'm struggling to find out what these plants (huge overgrown tree thing) is could anyone help?

This shows the very over grown tree type thingy that is the leaves numbered 2
Thanks so much for any help I don't want to chop down something lovely

Number 3 looks quite like Weigela.

And 8 are irises.

Thank you that’s a great start

Is 5 some sort of salvia? Probably not..

No. 4 looks like Photinia - Red Robin

1 looks like pheasant berry. 3 is Weigela, you can prune the flowering stems when the flowers are over, but don’t prune the non flowering stems. They’re where the flowers will be next year.

Agree with JT05, 1 is Leycesteria aka pheasant berry.

3 is weirdos, I have two that have responded well to hard pruning- they've come back pretty quickly and flowered the following year

Number 2 might be a bay tree. Break off a leaf and see if smells like a bay leaf.

6 is a fuchsia I think

It's hard to see the photos in enough detail really, but 7 might possibly be a hypericum, Rose of Sharon - if so it should have yellow flowers eventually.

I don't know about 2 being a bay, Jelly - the leaves don't look dark and glossy enough to me...bigger individual pics would help, OP!

2 definitely isn't a bay. Does it have any buds or old flowers?

Thanks so so much ladies for the amazing help here it's brilliant to know I have some nice established shrubs to work with

The tree thing is not a bay ( I have one in the current house) sadly the tree ( and garden) is 3 hours drive from our current house so for now these are the only pics I have

The mystery bush/tree/triffid is this one

The problem is that you can only upload 6 pictures a day 😞
This is no7

I'm not sure now about no. 7! It looks more like a spirea in the bigger picture. Over to someone else to have a go, I think....sorry!

I am not a great plant identifier, I am sorry. But my feeling about the no 2 would be to watch, see if it produces anything, and then cut right back.

I'm thinking that's a great plan @friendlyflicka it's far to big for where it is in the garden and we have loads of work being done so can get rid of the trimmings easily

That is the first time, I think, I have been useful in all my years of Mumsnet. Thanks very much