Weed help please

[Wistfulthinking]

Morning all,

I am working on our garden which was somewhat neglected by the previous owners.

I have been learning a lot from this board and I am attempting to get on top of the weeds. So far we have worked at clearing away the ivy and brambles and I am beginning the long war against dock, horsetail, bindweed, wood avens, comfrey, pendulous sedge and many other common weeds, but there a few plants that I can't identify. Would you be able to help identify any of the following?

We have very heavy clay soil and it seems that the most invasive and thuggish plants survive at the expense of everything else!

Thank you!

The third one is geranium, I think. Nice purple or pink flowers, depending on which kind of wild geranium it is. Total thug though and spreads like wild fire. My garden is totally infested.

Actually, it might be the first one.

Sometimes I leave things to flower if I'm not sure what they are; I discovered self-seeding nigella and dicentra in my last garden after several years' 'weeding' them . The first and third might be geranium/pelargonium.

This website might be useful?
www.gardenwithoutdoors.org.uk/weed_guide

Sorry aquilega not dicentra!

The first looks like hawthorn seedlings and the third like the wild version of geum that is a real pain in my garden.

Thank you very much! I would estimate that I have at 200 if not double the amount of the first seedings and I worry if I leave them alone it will be even harder to get them out. I have many of the wild geraniums which I quite like, but I think I will need to keep them in check.

The first year I let so many things grow and I made a rod for my own back. As they have multiplied this year. I have also been clearing sections of the garden and I have made a perfect bed for random weeds to grow, rather than my imagined flower bed.

I think the third one is a geum as I have found some bigger ones that have the soft hairy leaves and look like the pictures I googled. Will they take over if I let them flower?

Many thanks again!

I think the first is silver birch, not hawthorn.

No 2 might be a perennial phlox, if you're lucky.

If they are geum get rid as they seed everywhere and are difficult to get out

Sorry i didn't mean let the lot flower, just a sample of the ones you're not sure about.

Thanks again! We have a silver birch that is really quite big so that makes sense. I think one is enough and will keep pulling up all the birch seedlings (as well as the baby ash and sycamore from the neighbours).