Friend or Foe?

[sewer rat]

Having read the previous comments, I am still of the opinion that photo 2 is bindweed.
As for Photo 1, I'm not sure that it is crocosmia - could also be Hemerocallis (day- lily), but as has been mentioned, if there are small brown bulbs at the base of the plant, then crocosmia it is. I don't think it's Kniphofia - the leaves are too narrow and soft looking.

[Flummery]

There are several kind of bindweed. Botany's a b*gger isn't it!

[kentvegplot]

Think that first could be common weeping sedge (Carex pendula). Have a feel of the stem - if it seems triangular, then it's a sedge.

The second could be field bindweed, which I get a lot in my garden. It has a pretty pink and white flower, much smaller than the usual white one, but is a weed nonetheless

[Mikey]

Bindweed when young often has more rounded leaves, as these develop they get more pointy. You have two courses of action dig it up and hope you get every last bit of root out, or paint with a systemic herbicide which will go down to the root and kill the lot.

You can easily tell over a couple of days if its bindweed or not, take a stake and push in into the ground next to the shoot, very much like runner beans it will wrap itself around the stake within a couple of days for support. This is what makes it a very prolific weed as its strangles the host plant it climbs up, and its foliage blocks out the light from the host and kills it off.

Not sure the other one is crocosmia, it looks a little more grass like to me, crocosmia is clump forming with bulbs below the surface. I'd leave it in its pot and see what happens if it flowers.

[Hai_hula]

Had the mother in law to stay and the verdict is that it is bindweed and the other is some form of grass! Fortunately mixed up with the grass is crocosomia so all is not lost, thanks for your input!