Are these weeds please

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Hi, I am a complete novice at gardening so have been paying a garden company fortnightly maintenance for the last year but have recently stopped as none of the borders were being maintained, just cutting grass and hedge. For £132 a month I wasn't happy so plan on having a go myself. Are the photos weeds or plants they are very tall and messy can I cut them back?
Thanks

Photo Two looks like a Buddleia to me.

I don't think any are weeds. Photo 2 is buddleia - the butterfly plant, when it flowers you should get lots of butterflies. It does grow like a weed though, so when it's finished flowering you should be able to cut it back to tidy it up!

The second one is a Buddleia, I think. Its common name is butterfly bush, so it's great for butterflies and bees. The first one I have in my garden and I have designated it a plant rather than a weed, but I don't know what it is. I don't know the third one.

I think you are meant to prune buddleia back hard in March.

I always think of buddiea as a weed. a weed is just plant in the wrong place. If you don't like them pull them out!

Thank you, photo 3 is the most overgrown so I'll try and reduce this first. They all look pretty, my garden is full of plants and shrubs and very well established but I have no clue as they were all here when we bought house.

I've just planted three of them, to fill in space, so growing like a weed is what I'm looking for! You are right though the weed/plant designation is down to personal taste.

Think 1 is a Hypericum (sp) so keep can be left unless starts to be a nuisance. Don't know name of second but it is a keep too.

Yep, photo 1 is hypericum aka st john's wort. It has ncie yellow flowers though I don't like the black berries around kids so I tend to pull it out.
3 is a thing I would call pheasant bush but that's not the real name. The brids tend to seed it and it looks pretty so I leave a few.
There are no rules! Pull out if you want rid, cut back by half, leave if you love etc etc

Yes, all 3 are plants tho the first 2 spread themselves very readily. The third is a Himalayan Honeysuckle, Leycesteria Formosa (aka Pheasant bush as Swannykazoo says)

Waves at Lookingtothehighlands from the Highlands. Cooee!

Waves back at Swanny! Don't want to highjack this thread, but if you've got any suggestions for the thread I've just started I'll be very grateful!!

The stems to plant 3 are hollow tall tubes, really long and almost like a bamboo cane but not wood. The gardeners have been shaping plants 1 and 2 so I will carry on with that. Thanks all

Alan Titchmarsh once said 'weeds are only plants in the wrong place'. I love this and I do have weeds in my garden but only in the right place

Hypericum, aka St Johns wort( but not the wild medicinal variety), buddleia. And pheasant berry, aka love lies bleeding.
None of them weeds, but the buddleia will take over if you don't hack it down in winter.