Can anyone identify this plant in my garden please?

[HappyLouBella]

Any ideas what this is please?

They look like pansies I have these sprouting where I’ve dug them out time and again

Looks a bit like laburnum. Definitely not pansies.

The shoot coming out of the ground is thick and hard, like you'd get on a rose bush (not saying it's a rose - just trying to explain)

Looks like a laburnum sapling to me too. They do occasionally self-seed.

Does anyone nearby have a laburnum tree? Very easy to identify with their bright yellow hanging flowers.

Could be hop clover. A weed with little yellow flowers from the pea family

Not that I can see. I also have a cherry sapling growing. Apparently my garden decided on trees this year!

Looks like this has hairy leaves, laburnum isn't hairy, right?
Agreed with @bakermummy21 that it's a clover/trefoil, I grow some myself - same woody stem, younger soft growth. You'll have to wait for the flowers to find out the species.

Btw laburnum, clover and trefoil are all in the pea family, so none of us is making a silly mistake :)

I thought clover, but the stem is too woody?

It has a bright green, hard woody stem. So that rules out the clover idea. I'm pretty sure it is a laburnum, which does have green bark like that.

Hop clover/trefoil isn't like soft lawn style clover, it's growing habit is shrubbier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifolium_campestre

iNaturalist has quite a few photos for comparison, and I've attached one to hopefully show what I mean. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/57076-Trifolium-campestre/browse_photos

P.s. I think it's too hairy, but lucerne (very few hairs, purple flowers) also has a woody stem.

this plant appears to be a peanut seedling

Not in the UK it isn't.

my error then, my apologies

Definitely some sort of legume, but I think it will need to grow a bit, and maybe flower before it's clearer which one.

I don't think it is a peanut, but what do you mean 'not in the uk'? I've had seedlings sprout in my garden (SE London) before after the squirrel has buried them (the ones in shells).

Looks like I might need to give this one a bit longer to see what it is?

Pineapple broom tree, https://www.ornamental-trees.co.uk/products/cytisus-battandieri-yellow-tree
I had one but unfortunately it died.
Beautiful pineapple-scented flowers.

Seeing the woody bit, I think it might be privet. The leaves are the right shape for that.

Yes :)
I don't I've ever seen so many species in one thread, usually we get to it quite quickly! At least we all agree it's in the pea/legume/fabaceae family.

OP, I admit I’m not a gardener at all, and I always find you guys so amazing. But I do work with AI, and I’m happy to share what information should be emphasized in an AI prompt to get proper identification based off the kind of information you might not want to share publicly on Mumsnet [if normal leaf configuration is tri; post code; recent weather; location of plant (sunny, shady); intentional planting or accidental growth; plant smell; any smell if you break off a leaf; any insects present; etc, etc, etc] if you want it? (If not, just ignore me!)

London might have a microclimate that can just about stay ok, but most of the rest of the UK is too cold, and peanuts are not frost hardy.

Peanuts could germinate, but then not survive to maturity. But I reckon it's more likely to be clover or something.

I wondered about that too, but where in the wide world has this seedling come from? They are fairly uncommon, and it rarely produces viable seed in the UK. Laburnum do occasionally self-seed as late PILs had one in their garden. Their original mature laburnum had to be removed as it blew over in a high wind, and about five years later a new one appeared in the same flower bed.

@Lurkingandlearning not privet, they have pairs of leaves along the stem, this one has leaves on stalks.

I'm sticking with laburnum, although the OP is going to have to wait a good few years before it flowers.😂