Can someone kindly ID these for me?

[ListenLinda]

Hi,

Still in the process of getting our back garden sorted out, in amongst some bluebells that have sprung up through these stones i have found a pot with two different plants/weeds in. I have no idea what they are, if they are weeds or how to care for them.

I also have this lovely clump of white flowers that I assume are snowdrops, but i thought they should of gone back to sleep by now?

Can anyone help if I attached some pics?

It looks like wild garlic to me. What does it smell like?

That is indeed wild garlic.

Don’t put it into the ground, it’s a night mare and spreads everywhere.

The first picture looks like fox glove and aquilegia or possibly thalictrum. I'd keep it and find out.

First picture looks like aquilegia on the left, a lovely cottage garden plant also known as Granny's bonnets. They should come into flower in thr next month, depending where you are in the country. The other plant in that pot could be foxglove? not sure. Both perennial, so would die down after flowering then come back next year.
The white flowers could be puschkinia, common name Squill. Lovely! Another cottage garden favourite.
Looks like the plants in the pot were lifted to take with them and then forgotten.

If you let them flower and make seed you can scatter it on a flowerbed and you might get lucky. I love volunteer plants.

First Aquiligia and foxgloves. Second white bluebells, the Spanish ones, now native ones.

On the left in first picture is aquilegia I think. Some people consider it a weed but I really like them. Self seed freely around the garden, pretty flowers, bees love them.

First pic what spy has said
Second pic Three cornered leek - allium triquetrum , smells of onion and has a small white bulb ? very invasive ( dig out and bin )

with the Fox glove, you may not get a flower off it this year, as they are biannual.

I think the first pot is aquilegia and foxglove. I love the look of foxgloves but dont grow them as they are very toxic and I have young kids. I am teaching them not to eat stuff from the garden unless I say it's ok and they never have so far but not taking the risk on foxgloves.

Thanks all. Lived here for 3 years, had two small babies in that time and not really used the garden but I never noticed this flower at all.

The bluebells didnt the first year we were here, they were buried under a pile of old weeds and them stones. They came up through the stones this year not sure how.

Should I get rid of the foxgloves then? The pot is way past its best too but if the Aquilegia will produce a flower i’d like to try keep it.

Picture of the bluebells

Try again...

The foxglove will flower this year, then probably die off. You might as well keep it. The aquilegia is perennial.

The white flower isn't Wild Garlic (Allium ursinum) which has much broader leaves, but if it has an onion/garlic smell, it could be one of our other wild garlics, eg Allium triquetrium as suggested above. If it doesn't smell, then maybe a white scilla. Snowdrops only ever have a single flower to a stem.

First page left is aquilegia. One of my favourites. It will likely flower, it's a very hardy plant!

I agree foxglove and aquilegia. Both keepers

I have two small children so not too sure about keeping the foxglove....

Must be white scilla then as I can’t smell anything from the white flower!

Aquilegia is also poisonous. If you're not keeping the foxglove on toxicity grounds, you need to ditch the aquilegia too. And the bluebells. You're OK with the Allium triquetrum (if that is indeed what it is).

On the whole plants don't taste nice so children are very unlikely to choose to eat them however the flowers on a foxglove are quite fascinating and make pixie hats on your fingers so I would ditch that only.

Thanks all. I have a one year old DS, his main mission in life is to eat any random crap he can pick up so I guess I can’t be too careful!

Our flower seeds are starting to show seedlings :) on the ones we planted in the new pots. Very exciting to see new things growing