New garden/still learning! Plant ID help please!

[OldSpeclkledHen]

So been in my lovely new home a year next month. Previous owner was a gardener (but I never have been) and last year I left it 😳😳

This year! I've been getting into, I've planted stuff (and it's not died yet!) am growing from seed, it's brilliant!

However I'm struggling with what's plants and what's weeds 😳😳 and there is one that's really bugging me 😳😳 and it's starting to take over a bit of the garden

I have PlantSnap app, but every time I take a picture it comes up with 5 completely new plants 😳 so I'm really confuddled 🤯

Where can I learn to garden properly and understand what is what?

Tia ☺️

We need a photo!

Would Google lens identify it?
I suffer with this. I'm often not sure what plants to keep and what to get rid of but once they start taking over then they are pulled out.

Anything that's taking over the garden is usually a weed.

I am in the similar situation and have been nurturing weeds tenderly before finally getting rid of them.

I use the app called "picture this" to identify them. You get a few free pictures a day - so far I haven't needed to pay them.

Go take a few photos up close and focus on the leaf and flower. And post them on here.

I would highly recommend having a poke about in your local charity shops and picking up a copy of the RHS guide to plants- it has weeds in there too and some things which other people might consider to be weeds, like teasels, which spread prolifically but which I am very happy to have in my garden.

If it's spreading everywhere, it's likely to be an annual weed, so it will flower at some point making it easier to identify!

I'm just lurking for the photo!

There isn’t a universal definition of weed. You can’t even say “plants that grow in the wild are weeds” because many of them, eg lily-of-the-valley, foxglove, primrose, forget-me-not we are happy to see in our gardens. So “weed” is specific to you. Anything growing vigorously and crowding out plants that you like better is a weed for you. It might not be for me, and I might consider as a weed something that you cherish.

So as well as buying books, look carefully at anything growing, see how it flowers, consider whether you like it, and the ones that are real thugs and overrun everything, learn to recognise them when they’re small. You learn so much more from watching your garden , paying attention and thinking about it than you do from slavishly following a book without thinking and observing.

This (I hope) is most recent picture

Thank You, I'll try Google lens to see if that offers (more variation) and I'll hunt about for books

It's mostly spreading over the ground, but there is some height growth in some of the plants now (it's currently about 2ft) with no flowers yet ...

My app says it's a salvia?

My app says it’s yellow ox eye

Agree:

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/28114/buphthalmum-salicifolium/details