Plant/weed help!

[Santastealer]

Our garden is nothing short of a mess! I posted last year about a “gardener” who cut it all back by just hacking away and it’s all starting to grow back, but messily!

Can anyone ID the plants/weeds in these pictures and give any advice on how to tidy up? Should I completely strip the floor level plants and put down some bark?

Your last photo is oxalis - the two tone leaves - and the rest is persicaria next to each other.

This is the borders

@MotherOfGodWeeFella

Your last photo is oxalis - the two tone leaves - and the rest is persicaria next to each other.

Thank you! I will google them to find out what to do with them.

There’s a real mixture in there! In the left corner, white/ green leaves, purple flowers, is Lamiun.
Several dandelions, the long single leaves look like Crocosmia, the spike round plants look like purple loostrife.
Personally I’d dig the lot up and replant with things you prefer.

First picture looks like dog’s mercury, but that is a woodland plant, though looks a possibility from your general view. No 2 is enchanter’s nightshade, Cirencester lutetiana.

No 3 is a melee. In the centre you have aquilegia with the spear shaped leaves of crocosmia growing through it. And the grey shoots are linaria.

I can’t see any oxalis or persicaria in the third pic, although I can see the aquilegia looks superficially like oxalis.

Bee bumble is right with the silvery leaves of Latium in the bottom left of picture 2

circaea not Cirencester. And Lamium not latium

Thank you that’s really helpful!

I think the lot needs to come up.... but it looks a big job! Anything I try to dig up just tends to grow back again!

aquilegia and Linaria are quite pretty, as is the variegated Lamium. Dogs mercury and enchanters nightshade are less obviously attractive

Agree third pic is crocosmia and aqualigia
I’d dig them out and carefully separate them

Crocosmia is a tuber and quite hardy you can replant it. It spreads by making smaller tubers so has probably spread into the aqualegia, I would carefully tease it out , replant in a pot with compost, make sure water it, when it’s established again, replant it

I think I can see Aguca in the second pic - stripy leaves, low growing ground cover

What do you want your garden to look like ?

I think I can see Aguca in the second pic No, not Ajuga, Lamium, Same family. I'm not aware of any Ajuga with stripy leaves,. You mean the one in the bottom L corner?

I think I can see Aguca in the second pic No, not Ajuga, Lamium, Same family. I'm not aware of any Ajuga with stripy leaves,. You mean the one in the bottom L corner?

How on earth did that appear twice? I pressed the button once. Let's see if this does the same.