Nice shots of plants. The Puffy Fluffy was a form of Miscanthus, which you grew up with in Ohio. Seed heads plumes are pretty and make an attractive arrangement but are a mess (dropping seeds constantly) unless first sprayed with hairspray.
The Tasty Things are hard to make out there behind the small white flowers (Vinca) I would make a rough guess of some form of Ipomea…Cypress Vine? The bright pink flowers are Bougainvillea, which astounded me to see growing there. I always assumed it was a more tropical plant since it grows in the Southwest US and Mexico. The Freaky Flower was a common annual, Coleus, and the flowers are actually the tiny blue center stem part. If that flower part is not snapped off near it’s base, the plant will go to seed and die. And since Coleus is grown for it’s very colorful leaves, one would generally remove the flowers as they form to keep the plant growing and bushy.I’m not sure about the Baseball Bat plant. Maybe a sort of Catalpa? Peter will know when he checks in and correct my erroneous guesses. I, for one, always look forward to, indeed, count on, his insightful comments.

I can only agree with everything Grandma Friedl said, except the Tasty Thing, which I think is Russelia equisetiformis, sometimes called coral plant. I only know it because it was in the greenhouses at Wisley Garden when I worked there (not in the greenhouses). The “equisetiformis” refers to the resemblance of the almost leafless stems to those of horsetail - Equisetum. Here’s a surprise - it’s in the foxglove family.

But, I’m stumped by the baseball bat plant. I’m sure it’s a legume, and have a nagging feeling that I’ve seen those pods somewhere before, but so far, no idea beyond that, sorry!

Sorry, but I don’t think they are wisteria pods - the leaves are wrong, and wisteria pods are flat and downy; also this doesn’t look like a climber. But I still don’t know what they _are_!