Plant id

[walksen]

I have plants emerging in aborder bed. The one with the pale leaf emerged as a triangle shape. Plantsnap is saying it is a waterlilly.

Apologies for poor image quality; my phone lens is cracked and pictures always look cloudy.

Second one is ground elder - usually considered a weed.

Ground elder will take over the universe. It is the only plant |I use weedkiller for!

It's difficult to tell, but the second one looks to me like an ash sapling. I don't think it's ground elder.

Yes, OP, get the ground elder out right now before it wrecks your entire garden! It makes thick fibrous mats of roots just under the soil surface, from which very long white tap roots go down into the subsoil.
If you try to just pull it out, it snaps just under the fibrous mat, leaving the tap root to regenerate. It’s perennial, with a phenomenal growth rate. You either need a strong repeated application of weedkiller, or to dig right down below the tap root and bin the whole plant.

Hope it isnt ground elder. The area had been overgrown and ive cut it back so i can keep on top of it; it looks well established:(
On the plus side google says it's edible !

First one is Coltsfoot (horribly invasive )and the second one is an Ash sapling.

If the sapling is not too well established it should be possible to take a firm grip of it near the base and gently pull it out - it should come out complete with its tap root.

The Coltsfoot is a different kettle of fish and, loathe as I am to use herbicides, this is one that may need drastic treatment. If you try to dig it out, be aware that even a tiny sliver left behind will regenerate - sorry

first one could be a malva hibiscus
second ash seedling. still young enough to pull out easily. they are fast growing trees with enormous roots.

Oh no! I've just come on here and realised there's loads of coltsfoot in mt wildflower meadow. Off to nuke it with the glyphosate

Ok thanks all

I'll read up on the plants so i xan double check if they are coltsfoot and ash/ground elder.

I have some glyphosate so will paint it on the coltsfoot to start with!

The last mystery plant that grew nearby was a foxglove which i kept but sounds like these need to go!

cathyandclare but coltsfoot is a wildflower. It's an early flower, so valuable to insects at a time there isn't much around, and it's a secondary foodplant for the cinnabar moth.

walksen second is definitely ash. Ground elder has its leaflets in threes, whereas your leaflets are evenly aligned along the central stem. Your plant is definitely trying to head upwards, with leaves coming off a central stem, whereas ground elder has a basal leaflet from which a flower stem emerges.

Are the leaves in teh second pic variegated?
If it's ash it will have a very strong central stem (trunk).