Remove or keep weeds

[Boating123]

I think my garden looks better than last time I posted but a mystery plant has somewhat taken over the garden - hiding the various plants I planted.

Half of me thinks leave it alone. It may be good for pollinators (it has little pink flowers at the moment) and it isn't dead, which is a plus. It provides ground cover which may discourage dogs/cats from pooping there.

The other half thinks I should get rid of it/some of it to give the plants I planted a chance.

What do you think I should do?

Not easy to tell, but it could be a wild geranium.

I’d try and get rid of most of it and let the rest grow. It’s a good time of year to do that.

You can take enough out to liberate your plants but leave the rest to keep the ground covered. If it’s the creeping geranium you can rip out what you want and it will just keep coming back anyway so you won’t be doing permanent damage if you take out too much.

Which of the plants in your picture are you talking about? If the green in the foreground, it looks like a Geranium. Deal with it as you would any plant conflict, decide which is more important to you, and cut back the less important just far enough to give some breathing space

Thanks all.
I'll take it out of my pots at troughs and leave the groundcover.

I think it's shiny geranium. Appeared in my garden out of nowhere too this year! I'm finding it's smothering other plants that are trying to come up so I'm pulling it up when I find it.

Shining geranium has rather flat leaves, so I didn’t think it was that. But key characteristic is what the name says, smooth, shiny leaves.

If it's what I think it is, I take it out because I hate the smell. But it's very shallow rooted and easy to remove - so can be left if you don't have other plans for the space, then quickly pulled when you want to put something else there.

You’re thinking of Herb Robert, Stinking Bob, Geranium robertianum, but that has much more dissected leaves

Fair enough. I identify them primarily by smell so haven't paid that much attention to appearance - which makes identifying them from a photo rather tricky.