What is this plant?!

[JessieEssex]

They are everywhere in my garden, all over some newly turned over and grass seeded areas and in an area that we cleared of brambles last year. They have a slightly furry leaf with white spots and a deep tap root. Thanks!

Aargh sorry my photo didn't attach. Will try again

Is it like this?
gardening.stackexchange.com/questions/3811/what-is-this-furry-prickly-leafed-plant-found-in-the-uk

It must be something that's been dormant in the ground waiting for the right conditions. My garden developed an outbreak of the most gorgeous purple poppies when I turned over an area that had previously been lawn. They must have been dormant for decades.

Sounds like pulmonaria. Very useful for semi-shaded areas and have quite pretty flowers.

Sounds like wild borage. They are a bugger and will seed everywhere, and continue to grow unless you get the whole tap root out. You definitely don't want them in your lawn! TBH I have left some along the margins of my hedge, they do have nice blue flowers and the bees absolutely love them, but they are a weed, so you need to get them out of the lawn.

Pulmonaria is similar, but cultivated, so if you haven't planted then, or had any others in the garden, unlikely to be the better behaved ones!!

Gosh thank you all for replying without a picture! It definitely looks like wild borage... will start (carefully) weeding!

It is rather pretty when in flower though, and a sprig is a traditional ingredient in Pimms

My mum said I could put the flowers in ice cubes for my G&T!