Unidentified plants for id

[Cowgirl]

Please could anyone identify these plants?

Since I stopped cultivating this part of my garden, it's been quite exciting seeing what makes an appearance each year. The purple flower may be fom a bulb, which I planted from a large assortment two years ago, but nothing came up, but to be honest I have no idea. It's about 1ft high.

There are about 4 here that I would like identifying

1. The purple flowering one (roughly in the middle of the photo)
2. The tall thin spindly one (at the front of the pic) which self seeds at a phenomenal rate, but bees love the little pinky/purply flowers. It grows about 3ft & is quite bushy.
3. If possible from the photo, what I think could be some sort of tree seedling (back right). My original thinking is beech, but the leaves look too big.
4. Not really good visibility at the top but it's a horrible plant as it spreads everywhere & chokes up my regular plants. It's like some sort of creeping buttercup, the flowers when finished produce a spiky burr. It reproduces by voracious runners & it's a blooming nightmare trying to keep it out/under control




As a scale (sorry should have put a ruler in) the tyre to the right is from an adult bike.

[Hedera]

The flower in the middle looks like an aquilegia, or granny's bonnet.
The tall spiry one is purple toadflax.
The yellowflowered spreader is wood avens I think.
Can't ID the seedling, sorry

[Adam Cheeseman]

Originally Posted by Cowgirl

1. The purple flowering one (roughly in the middle of the photo)
2. The tall thin spindly one (at the front of the pic) which self seeds at a phenomenal rate, but bees love the little pinky/purply flowers. It grows about 3ft & is quite bushy.
3. If possible from the photo, what I think could be some sort of tree seedling (back right). My original thinking is beech, but the leaves look too big.
4. Not really good visibility at the top but it's a horrible plant as it spreads everywhere & chokes up my regular plants. It's like some sort of creeping buttercup, the flowers when finished produce a spiky burr. It reproduces by voracious runners & it's a blooming nightmare trying to keep it out/under control.

1. Columbine sp.
2. Purple Toadflax
3. Looks like Bramble
4. Herb Bennet (Wood Avens)

Cheers,

Adam

[Dorts]

2. is Purple Toadflax, which I'm sure is what Adam was thinking of.
I agree with the others.
Dorts.

[Adam Cheeseman]

Sure was. A senior moment I'm afraid. Have a fair bit in my garden that the bumbles lurve. I have a paler pink version too.

Cheers,

Adam

[Cowgirl]

Thanks for that. Love this site!

Looked up wood avens & that's it! I don't care that it's a good therapeutic plant, it blinkin' well takes over my garden

Sorry Adam, no 3 defo not bramble, although I see where you're coming from, looking at the photo again, it does look like bramble, but the stem or leaves aren't spiky, infact the stem is a sort of glossy brown which made me think tree seedling. It's a rubbish picture & doesn't show it very clearly. Will try & get a better one tonight.

I do have aquilega in another part of the garden, but it isn't as far on as this plant, so it's probably from windborne seed, no wonder it looked familiar, doh!

I also have a pinkier version of the toadflax, as I said earlier my bees love it

[Grimalkin]

Could the seedling be hornbeam?

[Dorts]

Originally Posted by Grimalkin

Could the seedling be hornbeam?

I must admit I only glanced at the seedlings (top right), and agreed they looked like Bramble.
If as Cowgirl says, they are not Bramble and are tree seedlings, the answer may lie above the garden. What kind of trees are nearby?
Dorts.

[bigdave60dog]

I can see a dandelion and a small willowherb of some sort in the background.
I`l have another magnify to see what else you have.
Dave

[bigdave60dog]

Make that two dandelions. Could the little thing surrounded by fallen blue aquilegia flowers be a Common hemp Nettle or Woundwort? I would go for a member of that family anyway. (Two cotyledons and a proper leaf)
You`ve got a couple of Mayweed/Pineapple weed type of seedlings just below it as well.
Dave