Arghhhh!

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We bought a new house, the lady before had filled the garden with bush after bush… we’ve started ripping them out. Planted some cosmos round what I thought was going to be a lovely flower, I’ve been feeding it and watching it grow. Just realised it’s a blooming weed 😂 for gods sake! Now I have a gap in my cosmos 🙈🙈

I would have thought that was a pretty plant as well! Your cosmos will soon fill that gap, don't worry about that.

Are the bushes planted a bit too close together or something?

It's one of the willowherbs.

Why on earth are you taking all the 'bushes' out? Do you even know what they are? Shrubs are the structure of a garden.

Shrub gardens are one of the most low maintainence ways to garden. I would slow down a bit with the bush removal as some might be better than you think. You nah even be able to give or sell the so someone else will come and dig them up.

One person’s weed is another person’s freedom fighter!
It’s pretty, why don’t you keep it?

I’d leave the bushes for a year so you know what is there and you want to keep

If you keep 1 willowherb, next year you and all your neighbours will have thousands.

OP, stop digging up bushes. You're losing all your structure - especially for over winter. Never¹ do anything drastic to a garden until you've had it a year and know what's there. And definitely don't remove bushes during bird nesting season.

¹ Unless it's obviously full of Japanese knotweed or something.

Shrubs are also often a source of winter and early spring colour.

I agree with others - stop taking the bushes out. Wait. Identify them first, otherwise you could be destroying some lovely stuff. If things are too big, they can be pruned back hard anyway, at the right time of year.