Flowers or weed?

[Bramble_killer]

There's plenty of stuff in my garden and I need some help identifying them!!

Flower 1 and followed by the leaf.

This one hasn't flowered yet but there's plenty of it (I'm thinking definitely weed?)

Flower 2 (followed by leaves) is definitely a weed, but not sure what it is...

[Bramble_killer]

And this one is a small shrub type thing (I have plenty dotted around)
It has really dark (almost purple?) top leaves

[zazen999]

Flower 1 is aqualegia.

Don't know what the middle one is.

A weed is only a weed if you don't want it there; until then it is a wild flower

Quite difficult to say about the others, are they taken with a camera phone?

[Bramble_killer]

thanks andrea.

Yup, camera phone, sorry about that. I haven't got a proper camera. It was quite dark when I went out as well.

[Alison]

The second picture of leaves looks like creeping buttercup to me, we have tonnes of the stuff in our garden and it makes a plant everywhere it touches but is easy enough to pull up. Mind you, as Zazen says, a weed is just a plant in the wrong place so if you like the look of something keep it no matter what anybody else says

[Bramble_killer]

thanks alison, we have a large patch full of creeping buttercups and this was further away but I suppose they get around

[binley100]

Save me some aquilegia seed please. I love them. I have purple and white ones and this year a pretty pale pink one has appeared , so I'm hoping for seed off that. They're an old cottage garden plant also called columbine
Aquilegia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Bramble_killer]

err.....how do i do that? Good job I didn't hoik them out today

[binley100]

Wait till the flowers die off and the petals drop , then the seed cases will go brown and dry out. Then put them into a paper bag or envelope and the seeds will fall out.

[Jeanied]

They form very sculptural seed pods, BK - which dry and split in autumn. Cut the flower stem when it has got dry and hang upside down in a paper bag - the seeds will fall out into the bag, job done.

I'll try and save some black doubles, same shape as Nora Barlow, if you like, Binley - I have a patch of them on the lottie!!

[binley100]

OOh thankyou. I'm now thinking what seeds I can save.
Welsh poppies, bees and hoverflies love them.
Annual poppies, self seed round my garden .
White and purple aquilegia .
I like to let plants like that self seed and add bits of colour wherever they fall.

[Bramble_killer]

thank you binley and jeanied. I'll make a note to remember to dry them

[northepaul]

I have some aquilegia too.....pink, purple whilte (already here) and I have sown some magpie ones with some spare seeds from my partially sighted friend's balcony originally from Two Sheds....lovely!!

[Flummery]

The purplish bushes look like ash seedlings to me - quite hard to eradicate. Dig them out if you can. The roots go deep. The other (yellow flowered) might be a geum - wood avens. You could google and check. That's a weed that goes mad - I dig loads u in my garden regularly - it still comes back! Seeds like the blazes. The third one looks like some kind of dock.

[Two_Sheds]

No. 5 looks like Creeping Cinquefoil (does it remind you of strawberry plants?). It could be No.2 as well (it has buttercup-like flowers)