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What is this weed?
Hi there
I've planted a new hedge plus layers of spring and summer perennial flowers, thinking that I had done really well in my first year of gardening. Not so 
What I should have done was wait until Autumn this year before planting anything and use this year to ensure that all weed is eradicated. The benefit of hindsight.
So, I've ended up with a hornbeam hedge, bluebells and hardy geraniums mixed up with wild garlic and this weed, which I've no idea what it is. Does anyone know? You'll be able to spot the "freed up" hardy geranium and the long leaves with a bud at the bottom are my bluebells.
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Do you mean the little heart shaped leaves? If so its celandine, awful to get rid of, dig out carefully and make sure you remove all the tiny bulblets. It will take a few years to get rid because you never can get all the bits up.
Celandine - if you can keep it there it's very pretty in a hedge bottom - depends on whether you like the natural look or not.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The other stuff looks like wild garlic to me.... If it gets white flowers then it is
Oh wow. Thank you so much Lyn and Dovefromabove. At least I know what I'm dealing with now which is half the battle
Next question then, will the geraniums, bluebells, anemones (further on in the border) and other summer flowers be able to survive alongside the Celandine do you think? The daffodils came up really well. I see Celandine are supposed to flower in March/April but certainly mine are nowhere near at flowering stage yet.
I've checked the RHS website and one solution is digging the plants up until the site is cleared. Depending on your answer, I guess I've got a decision to make
Stacey, yes it is wild garlic. Philippa, yes that's what I'm afraid of but I'm due to spot treat my lawn shortly so I'm hoping that will at least weaken it and I'll just have to keep on top of that and the wild garlic. The joys of having a wild wood just behind our garden.
The celandines disappear after flowering, even if they haven't flowered. You'll forget about them til next year and there they'll be again. But more so.
Mine are flowering, yours are babies, they'll flower next year
They're lovely, but there are too many. I like them in the grass but they don't stay there
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nutcutlet, do you try to contain them? I'm just wondering how much of a problem they are going to be, if any. Is it true that they only grow about 2" high?
I've got them all along my roadside border. No point trying to remove - they are down the whole road, and there are very established shrubs and old trees. They look very pretty and don't seem to do much harm. Well the daintier bulbs get a bit crowed out (eg fritillaries, chionodoxa,) but otherwise no probs. I am cautious though about moving anything from there into the garden in case I spread it.
Charley, I had a few and now they're everywhere. The little corms are almost invisible are spread about when you're weeding or splitting plants. Each little bit is another plant. I'm not too bothered, if I was growing little spring flowering plants I would be but my plants can take a bit of competition
In the sticks near Peterborough