Another ID please

[Renovirgin2018]

Can someone please tell me if these are weeds? The second picture is in many places in the bed, the first just this cluster.

I think the second one is a weed. I've got them and definitely didn't plant them so I pull them out. Hope so!

First one is yellow garden loostrife (sorry, cannot remember its binomial latin name) and second one is hypericum aka St John's Wort or Rose of Sharon. Neither are 'weeds', but both can be very vigorous and invasive if not kept in check

First one I think is a weed as we get that one 😂

So between me and the other previous poster we've hit bingo 😂😂

Oops not a weed then!

The first one is definitely yellow Loostrife. It also has a purple form with different type of leaves.
The second is Rose of Sharon as previous poster has said. It does indeed spread by seeds, but the birds, particularly finches love them. It’s alway a dilemma whether to cut the seed heads off before they spread.

Great. Thanks all.

Hypericum is very easy to look after and reliable year after year. It also responds well to being cut back hard to reinvigorate it if it's getting leggy and/or tatty looking.

We have St John’s Wort absolutely bloody everywhere.
It’s not a bad plant but it will take over.

The first one is definitely yellow Loostrife. It also has a purple form with different type of leaves. You mean the yellow loosestrife with deep purple leaves, var "Firecracker" I think?

Not purple loosestrife with pinky-purple flowers, which despite the English name is in a completely different family?