These are weeds right?

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I’m about to tackle a garden which has not been touched for over a year, these are weeds right 🤔 please and thank you

what is a weed? something growing where you dont want it to. So if you dont want those plants, they are weeds, and if you do want them, they are not weeds

It looks like fiddleneck maybe, attract insects and pollinators, which might be what you want, it carries some diseases which can spread to crops, which is no good if you are growing crops on the same patch. It can grow fast, but it looks contained.

It might not be fiddleneck, hard to see in your picture

That’s true, but do you know what they are, are they likely to flower, if they flower that’s good I’d like an insect friendly garden. If they don’t flower I’d rather swop them out.

Remove the grass. Leave the rest and see what it does.

I was thinking cosmos op, I’m not sure, but my husband planted some which look similar I just can’t recall the name, I don’t think a weed no

@Nimbostratus100 thats great thank you, it gets me off the starting blocks, I’ve no idea at all. Prior to this I had a flat with no garden.

Thank you everyone I really appreciate it. I’ll dig out the grass and leave the rest.

https://diversegardens.co.uk/wildflowers/wildflower-gallery/fernleaf-fiddleneck/

My MIL says that a weed is just a plant growing in the wrong place …

I am not sure from the picture that this is definitely what you have got though

@MrsElijahMikaelson1 i have a lot of very tall dandelions as well which I think are very pretty, lots of insects on them so I’m going to leave them as much as I can, it’s a shame they are considered weeds.

A closer picture

Are the round buds part of that plant?

If so, I'm pretty sure it's a fiddleneck.

Letting dandelions flower is good. Just nip the heads off before they go to seed.

Phacelia tanacetifolia - which means “tansy leaved” and my first thought, before seeing the flower buds, was that it was tansy. It’s in the borage/forget-me-not family, has pale blue flowers, and although it’s not a UK wildflower, it’s often found in packets of “wildflower” seed.

You will get many different opinions on what is a weed.
In my garden, that is a weed.

Dandelions are a vital food source for early bees so if you can leave them to flower its a good thing but remove the seed heads.

The best advice anyone can give a novice gardener is to let things grow the first year until you are totally confident you don't want it. Let this "weed" grow and flower before deciding on its demise.

Can you download the plant

OP, Plant Net has confirmed your picture is of Fiddleneck and one alternative name is Bees' Friend 🪻🐝

I'd call it a wild flower and keep it for the bees

It is Phacelia and is often grown to be dug in as a 'green manure', brilliant for pollinating insects and I have it, along with chicory, growing in the wild flower areas in my lawns. Beautiful blue/purple flowers in summer.
There is no such thing as a weed - consider dandelions for example - if you paid ten quid for one in a nursery or garden centre you would nurture it, cherish it and show it off to all your friends. It is just as beautiful as an aster, bellis, doronicum or any other daisy like flower!

There a Plant ID app - Picture this - which is pretty good. Not infallible but it helped me when I moved into a new garden identify stuff I hadn't planted.

just a fancy name for fiddleneck!

just a fancy name for fiddleneck! I think you meant to say "the scientific name for fiddleneck" - fiddleneck being applied to at least one other plant in the borage family. Yes, I should have said, but Nimbostratus's picture made clear it was the same plant.