I think somebody rather SEEDILY have pranked my garden.

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My border at the bottom of the garden, is a mess of knee height wild flowers. They are not even pretty wildflowers, they are all leaf and tiny little yellow blooms, that have already finished. I know I have not planted them. I think somebody must have tipped out a wildflower seed pack in my garden. That spot is normally a bit bare this time of year, as I have tall bulbs coming up, and Agapanthus which are not blooming yet. They are going to be drowning!

Good grief I hate ripping up flowers.

I have those things in my garden. Get them up now before they go to seed. The seeds are like little hooks and get attached to everything, and there are hundreds of them on every plant. I've been trying for years to get rid and can't.

I have those things in my garden. Get them up now before they go to seed. The seeds are like little hooks and get attached to everything, and there are hundreds of them on every plant. I've been trying for years to get rid and can't.

Yes, I have that in my garden too. It is a wildflower growing in the wrong place, ie the very definition of a weed.

I'm not an expert, but I think that's wood avens. It's a very common weed.

I highly doubt you've had your garden 'seeded' deliberately. The thing is, a lot of weeds are thugs - they are evolutionarily adapted to grow like billy-o and out-compete other stuff. If you don't pull them up in the garden, they areg likely to 'win' over the plants that we buy in nurseries and garden centres. This is why regular weeding is important if you don't want a wildflower garden (and I do love a wildflower garden).

Yes, wood avens is the name I was struggling for. It is very common, seems to blow in from nowhere and I really can't believe that anyone would sow it as a prank. When people do guerrilla gardening, they usually do it on communal ground and plant something pretty to improve the area.

I think they are celandine - tell me if I have the wrong name. I have them everywhere and have to wait unitil they are gone, a pain in the butt

Wood avens, not celandine. Prolific self seeders. Dig it up before it seeds.

Struggling correctly identified it as wood avens.

Great, I will tackle them today !

They're not difficult to get up (unlike eg dandelions) but their seeds do stick with hooks if you don't get them out before they seed. This is probably how they've ended up here - perhaps they stuck to a cat and it groomed itself in this spot last autumn and they fell of there. - they get terribly stuck in my dog's coat!

I got them. They filled a binliner!