Please help me recognise these plants!

[JessieMcJessie]

We've just moved to a new house and for the first time in 40 years I have a garden! The previous owners clearly planted a lot at one point and we have the basics of a small lawn with beds round the sides and a nice climbing rose going over an arch at the entry. However they obviously got a bit fed up looking after it and I think there a lot of weeds and out-of-controlp plants everywhere.

I am clueless about gardening but would like to learn so my first task is to get weeding and keep the plants that I like and get rid of the ones I don't. Trouble is I have no idea what any of them are and beyond Dandelions can't even tell what's a weed!.

Could any kind green-fingered mumsnetters help identify them for me?

I think the small tree in "the last three" is a pear.

This is fun

Well done jessie we'll make a gardener of you yet

This is the bindweed right? It is indeed everywhere!

Bind weed is just annoying. Strip it out at the root. The bugger likes to strangle other plants but it's not hellish like knotweed for example.

I'm going to post a few more since a few new people are popping up but please don't feel obliged to indulge me! I'll also put them in individual posts with letter labels as it's getting a bit confusing for you all.

A

B

C. This one is a bit hairy and thorny. About a foot high.

D reminds me of an umbrella plant I had in a pot as a student. Clearly the caterpillars love this one.

E another berry? It's near the strawberries.

And here's a pic of the whole garden. The climbing rose is a bit mad and the arch is all wonky under its weight so am also contemplating what to do with it.

A - Osteospermum
B - Borage?
C - Nettle (weed)
D - Choisya
E - could be another hardy geranium

I love this game

'this is bindweed right' yes there is bindweed in there, but bergamot by the looks of it is the main plant there.
A - some sort of daisy
B - Alkanet
C - bramble - dig this bugger out now by the roots
D - Yes umbrella plant
E - Geranium

'last three' the first of those is apple

So - from the top:
camelia
quince
currant
wallflower
grape
iris
raspberry
sage
alpine strawberry
apple
geranium
aqualegia
bergamot with some bindweed
some daisy
alkanet
bramble
umbrella plant
geramium

Oh - Yes to osteospermum - I couldn't recall the name

Grape?! Goodness, they planted a vineyard! How funny.

Osteospermum sounds like a nasty disease.

Can't believe I didn't recognise a nettle- I obviously didn't touch it! Will have a go at that and the bramble as soon as I have bought some gardening gloves.

C - is a bramble not a nettle.

Next to the bramble though is a curry plant, stroke the white leaves and they should smell of curry.

And be careful digging up the bindweed, make sure you don't dig out the bergamot.

Googling Alkanet it seems to be a weed, perhaps viewed kindly by some as a wildflower. There is rather a lot of it, all along the back wall.

Are choisya and umbrella plant the same thing? Googling choisya it doesn't look like the leaves are quite right.

I've just realised the bramble and the nettle are the same picture - that halves my work then !

Will have to go back and try to distinguish the bindweed from other plants, all looked the same to me.

F

G two angles of the same plant. It's growing low and flat like some sort of vine. Daisy flower is separate- you've already done that one!

H. I'm going to run out of my picture allowance soon. This one is also like a vine -it's very long and has some new curly shoots on the ground.

Philadelphus
:)

f - philadelphus
G - ribes of some sort - which is an ornamental currant. Should have flowers soon for checking

So on delving into the one that might have been iris, I discovered some of these dried out seed pods. Does that help at all?

H is Jasmine
D is Choisya (Mexican Orange Blossom)
Yes to that's being Iris foetidissima