Violas

[NotMyCat]

I bought some last year in pots for the garden (am not a garden person, I kill everything)
How tall do they grow?! It's come back snd it's up to my hip now

That's a weed, I think. Voila prefer a bit of saffron and certainly not too dry.

Nooo that's not a viola and no viola grows up to your hip!

That looks very much like rosebay willow herb to me. (Which is technically a weed but I don't like calling anything a weed personally )

Shade not saffron!

Oops
I don't actually mind weeds, I tend to go with put pots out and see what happens, snd call it a bee friendly wild garden
Plants/gardening are like a blind spot for me

That's not rosebay willowherb, which has a single spire of larger pinkish red flowers and is a much more robust plant (and also food plant of the emperor hawk moth caterpillar).

It is one of the small flowered Epilobiums (willowherbs), though you would need more of a close up to see which. It's a freely self-seeding perennial.

@MereDintofPandiculation thank you! I will try and take some better pics, it seems to have seeded in all 4 pots

If you want an id to species, you need to see if the stigma in the centre of the flower is club shaped or cruciform, and the shape of the leaves and how they join the stem. My money is on Epilobium montanum, broad leaved willowherb

That's fab, I will have a look
Honestly, I'm useless. I can ID all plants poisonous to horses at a glance but don't ask me to grow anything
I have some troughs with bee bombs in and I'm pretty sure they're all weeds that I've managed to grow

Could be worse. I bought some gypsophila seeds which said to direct sow in the ground in March/April. I lovingly covered my little seedlings when the frosts kept coming back and regularly surrounded them in slug deterrent. Took me two months to realise something didn't look right. Used an app and found out I'd been looking after a weed called petty spurge. One of its alternative names is Cancer Weed

@MilduraS
My dad has been "I think your pots are full of weeds"
I've defended them on the grounds they have flowers and look pretty

I spend my days pulling those out 😂, they go from nothing to waist height alarmingly quickly, and best to catch them before they flower, as then they seed everywhere.

@EmmaStone they're in no danger of surviving on the grass - my grass is maintained by the management company. Their idea of maintenance seems to be razoring everything green to bare earth every 2 weeks whether it's needed or not. Japanese knotweed would have a tough time against the gardening company