More spring greenery

This spring is very different from last year. A year ago I was still waiting for the snows to melt, and after they did I had to clear the flowerbeds of a layer of slimy brown plant matter. This year, I'm busy wondering if the greenery that the melting snows reveal will just carry on from where it left off in the autumn, seeing as it looks completely alive!

The front yard is still covered in snow, though.

But in the back yard, everything is pushing up through the soil.

I'm astonished to find that these things survived the winter!
They're potted hydrangeas I was given last year and planted
"temporarily" just to see what would happen.

Woodsquill (Scilla siberica, idänsinililja).

Daylilies.

Daffodils.

Crocuses are cropping up all over the lawn
because hey, that's where I planted them!

The skunk currant (lamoherukka) is putting forth leaves.

Yesterday I very inexpertly trimmed two crabapple trees, but left the sourcherry alone because we returned Mr Thumb's dad's handy extensible trimmers and I couldn't reach the branches.

New stuff

I'm on my way out to buy some more plants. It's really hard to stick to the plan of sitting out the first year and watching the garden develop! For example, this bit:

None of these are my favourite plants and the whole spot is just a mess! I don't know how to tidy up the monster flowerbed on the right, since it's got three or four plants mixed together (some might be milkweed, but I like milkweed so I'm letting them be, especially since I'm not sure). As far as the bushes on the right (that I can't ID just now and can't be bothered to google, though it's a really common plant) are concerned, they're really not my ideal plants. I'd like to dig up the lot and replace them with something a bit more, well, less bushy.
But for now I'm just going to stick to buying a few pots and things and plopping flowers in them. For example, a square planter with legs filled with bright colours would go great in the corner of the front yard where grass tends not to grow:

By the way, is anyone able to identify that bush in the foreground? It shows no signs of flowering and every sign of not being pruned earlier. I'm thinking that eventually we could dig that up and have a big planter with a kitchen garden full of herbs there.

Let me see your identification

We have a map of the garden, some of the plants have come up now and you'd think it would be fairly simple to google each of the plants on the map to identify the actual plants. Well, not doing so great thus far.

EDIT: Help has been received! Thank you Ms Rose Mountain. I've now edited in the actual names of the plants.

Alchemilla (poimulehti) which could go in salads or medicate an upset stomach or menopause(!). That was easy, since Madam Guru already ID'ed that for me.

Cornflower (vuorikaunokki). I recognise it from the pictures, of course, and honestly I'm not too fond of it. Let's see if it manages to change my mind.

Pachysandra (varjoyrtti) had spread. These extras are now removed.

Bleeding heart (pikkusydän). 

 Loosestrife (tarha-alpi), which tends to spread - no kidding, the thing is everywhere. This would be the thing on the map that reads "something yellow that blooms in July".

Peony (pioni), clean up in spring, divide and replant in late summer. This one's on the map, yay.

Cowslip (kevätesikko), also good for salads. When it's done blooming, divide and replant.

Phlox (syysleimu).

Creeping jenny, or moneywort (suikeroalpi), grown for ground cover and needing no care.

Flowering raspberry (tuoksuvatukka) which should produce berries later, unless it's as dead as it looks. It's on the map. The green stuff, though, is ground elder (vuohenputki), basically a weed but also good for salads and for gout and bladder problems!
("Ground elder" makes me think of "mummy brown", actual Egyptian mummies ground to dust for pigment, though I suppose it refers to the plant elder. Which in turn reminds me of the elder wand.)

Skunk currant (lamoherukka). Good ground cover and nice colours in the autumn. Remove dead stuff in early spring.

Daylily (päivänlilja). Flowers briefly. On the map, marked where it should be. Keep well watered.

Pachysandra (varjoyrtti). Do Not Disturb except to remove excess. These were ID'ed earlier and they're on the map, so wheee.

Tulips (which I'm able to recognise all on my own). The blue one is glory-of-the-snow (kevättähti).

There are also supposed to be some awesomely named gay feathers (valkotähkä) here somewhere but I couldn't find any.