Are these weeds?

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I'm going top up the flower beds with compost and get them ready for bedding plants.

Are these all weeds? Should I pull them out?
Or are they bedding plants like snap dragons from last year regrowing?

I vote weeds

Weeds.

Yes

I think they may be your snapdragons you know. The first shoots like a bit like a pea shoot, and then the next stage looks a bit like that - and the one on the bottom left looks like it shows both stages. It's a bit too blurry to confirm though.

Hmm, there are a lot of them!
All over the bed so perhaps too many to be the snapdragons

I loathe gardening. No idea what I'm doing!

Here's some more

Try the Seek app. I have something similar in my garden and the app says it’s willowherb.

They look like forget-me-nots, tiny blue flowers 🤔

Yes yes.

Try the picture this app.

I think it's willow herb - weed. I get a lot of it.

Forget me nots spread wider than these individual plants, and would have buds/have bloomed by now.

I agree it's willowherb. A very pretty wildflower buts it seeds everywhere so I pull it out when I see it.

Whether or not they’re weeds is entirely your decision. A weed is merely a plant growing, usually vigorously, where you don’t want it. I have things growing in my garden which I treat as weeds which are being sold in garden centres.

first picture is a bit out of focus and I can’t see the leaf veins, but it looks like an Epilobium, willowherb. Second, third and fourth photos are Epilobium, fifth is Epilobium but with a sage family plant growing with it - the felty leaves at top right.

None of the leaves are hairy enough for forget-me-not.

To help you decide, most of the epilobiums have tiny pale pink flowers, they seed themselves readily and also spread vegetatively.

The sage like plant you will probably want to keep

I loathe gardening. No idea what I'm doing! If you learn more about it, it will become interesting. Like most things.

I hadn't thought of using a photo/app.

Seems it is willow herb

Weeds. I've spent a good hour or so today pottering in my front garden getting rid of all of this that has started to pop up. Plan to lay some landscaping fabric and slate-chip over the whole lot ASAP, because just as you think you've got rid of it all more of them pop up!

Did it hazard a guess at which? Offhand I can think of at least 7 species of willowherb which grow in the UK

Apps are good at giving you a starting point but it’s unwise to take their answer as definitive- they make quite huge errors.

I have these all over my beds. I took a photo of them just yesterday with the "Picture This" app. It said they were willowherb. A weed, I believe.

Just googled them. They're actually pretty!

Weeds. As PPs have saud, a species of willowherb. It spreads like mad so pull them out.

It didn’t, no. I’ve left mine as they are in a pot but they do seem to spread a lot.

Well if they are the same variety I have, the flowers are too small to be appreciated. I try to get rid of them but they keep coming back as they seed so quickly

There’s at least 7 species in the UK. Great Willowherb has big pink and white flowers and is very attractive but spreads itself around. Rosebay willowherb is another spreader, but the white flowered variant is sold as a garden plant. New Zealand Willowherb is a tiny creeping plant whose flowers are disproportionately large for the size of plant.

Rosebay and some of the other willowherbs are foodplants for the larvae of the Elephant Hawk Moth

And this? Photo app says it is bellflower-
Is that a weed?

Here's the image

That's a species of Campanula (bellflower) and it doesn’t look like any of our native campanulas (harebell is probably the best known) so it will have originated in a garden. It will have probably blue bell shaped flowers, probably in great abundance. It’s one you may like to keep till it flowers before deciding.

Arrrgh, that looks like something from a SCi-Fi series ! I hope it only comes out at night when I am in bed !