Can anyone ID these nice Epsom Borough Council flowers?

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I don't say they're spectacular but they are pleasantly unobtrusive and seem low maintenance. They would be nice for a dull patch in my front garden... Admittedly, when you see these plants sold singularly in a garden centre, they don't necessarily make much of an impression.

Tall purple ones
https://www.sarahraven.com/products/verbena-bonariensis?gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD1kj8qT8ha-hg2FbXDLnd18B5fEA&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7eCG4b21hwMVrZFQBh3Q-w5gEAQYCCABEgInSvD_BwE

small red ones at the front of the same picture maybe
https://www.cadestreetnursery.co.uk/a-complete-growing-guide-to-heuchera/

I was wondering if the mound of purple flowers was a geranium like this, but I just can’t see the leaves clearly. I’m struggling to see clearly as when I try to zoom in it all blurs.
https://www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2018/06/16/purple-cranesbill-geranium-x-magnificum/

The purple trailing one at the front is a hardy geranium called Geranium Rozanne. I've got it, it's lovely and sooooo easy to grow / care for

www.gardenersworld.com/plants/geranium-rozanne/

I think I can see salvia caradonna in there at the back too

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/194596/salvia-nemorosa-caradonna/details

I agree with PPs. Also, I think the yellow orange one is alstroemeria Indian Summer.

www.thompson-morgan.com/p/alstroemeria-indian-summer/P94168TM?acq_source=[med:ad][src:g][cid:17679783043][gid:142207428127]&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_id=17679783043&adgroup_id=142207428127&source=google&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAAD_t6fraRxe7cOGD_nwMgZiXBCYdp&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIldOs08G1hwMVeolQBh3KOwAOEAQYBSABEgJcz_D_BwE

The ones that look a bit like lettuce (not sure how else to describe lol) are heuchera. The purple/red one and orangey brown one.

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/heuchera

I think the white flowers at the back behind the purple salvia nemorosa in the second photo are also a salvia, probably salvia microphylla. They are very blurry so I can’t really see the leaves or flowers in detail though, that’s more a guess from the overall shape IYSWIM?

The tall purple ones look like verbena - good for pollinators.
I have loads of crocosmia in my front and back garden. Very easy to grow and spreads. You can pull up the bulbs after flowering and plant where you want. Give it a couple of years first though.

I think the one to the right of the heucheras is Hylotelephium spectabile (formerly sedum spectabile) - very easy to grow and propagate, flowers late summer into autumn and is great for bees and butterflies.

On the left:
Verbena bonaerensis, alstromerias in two colours, heucheras and sedum spectabile

On the right I can see less clearly, but I think possibly gauras at the back, a hardy salvia in front of them, a peony, geranium rozanne, not sure what the grass is, the ground cover could be a creeping phlox?

Oh, no, have they changed the name on me? Why???

Yellowy red in first pic is alstroemeria

Oh, no, have they changed the name on me? Why???

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylotelephium 🤷‍♀️
It might be sold under either name.

Just noticed some pinkish flowers behind the spectabile - they could be scabious.

I agree with PP that the white ones at the back might be some sort of salvia or guara ... can't really tell, but the form looks like my salvia 'hot lips'.

In a sense it may not matter too much if the identifications are 100% accurate because I think all the plants mentioned are worth having!

Well, you know the answer to that

There’s going to be a lot more changes in the next few years as they sort out the DNA relationships. Prepare for a bumpy ride.

When you think of it, using external physical characteristics was never going to be completely accurate in sorting out hereditary relationships.

Today visiting some nice gardens, their plant stall had some hylotelephiums labelled as sedums. It takes a while for name changes to 'take', especially if it's from an easy name to a harder one.

I already have to cope with remembering the names in 3 different languages (4, if you include the latin, but they often don't have the latin in the shops I go to). I can't cope with learning everything all over again. I'm too old.

I wondered what that one was, it looks like it would be very striking.

Even longer to “take” is when two names are dropped into synonymy. Cynically I think “why sell only one plant when you can sell two?” but I can understand that as a nurseryman, if you can see a slight difference in the plants, you want to preserve that in the name, even if, as a taxonomist, they are undoubtedly the same species

I was giving a talk to a international group, mainly German, and thought “this is great! Scientific names were made for this!” … till we got on to liverworts … “no, we don’t use the scientific name”. (They call them leather worts)

Thanks everyone for your helpful comments! Before I get most of these, I will have to 'invest in'/buy some decent compost and topsoil etc and dig out the hyacinth bulbs and make a real go of it, then replant the bulbs around them!

I recently got rid of our lawn which was a sea of mud most of the year.

Repaced it with a large bed of easy bee friendly plants, similar effect to the pics. Most of them are easy to propagate from cuttings, especially salvia and nepeta, and verbena bonariensis will self seed madly. Plants are expensive so I just bought one or two of each kind, I took cuttings (complete beginner at cuttings) from the newly planted nepeta in May and now have 5 extra plants already.

Oh my I know the front left in photo 1 as coral bells…