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Weeds, weeds, everywhere !
So this term, now I'm child free during the day, I have taken on not only the wildlife garden at my daughters school but also the sensory garden.
Was trying to get it back under control today. Could you tell me if these are all weeds or should I be keep any of them? Thank you.
1) this seems to be taking over the flowerbeds, stay or go ?
2) Again lots of this.
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4) I'm thinking this may be some sort of half decent plant???
Any help greatly appreciated, I now have 3 years of trying to get the garden so we have flowers for as much of the year as possible 
Currently 80% of it flowers when it is school holidays...
I'm going to look forward to this.
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I don't know what the central plant in your 1st picture is, but I can see nettles and creeping buttercup (weeds) and possibly a leaf of a sedum. In the 2nd pic the plant with pink bobbles is a weed. 3rd pic I'm not sure looks like a sow thistle at the top but not at the bottom. 4th pic I think is a Geum, surrounded by rose bay willow herb, and more creeping buttercup. Also some Aquilegia seedlings I think
Given the general weedy state that geum might be Geum urbanum, wood avens, which is a weed.
The pink one is a persicaria, knotweed. Flowering now it's probably the annual weedy one.
That could be an evening primrose with the stinging nettles at the top. Biennial, will flower next year, but it's very much in shadow so I'm not sure.
The tall one that's gone to seed, that's not a sow thistle, the leaves are wrong. Have you any idea what colour it was when it flowered and do the leaves smell at all?. I'd hold on that, till someone gives a positive ID
In the sticks near Peterborough
The evening primrose has really meaty tap roots and they seem a bit out of control with the number of them. Maybe I'll leave a couple and clear the rest.
The v tall flower I think had a yellow flower, but most of them flowered over the summer holiday. I'll have a look tomorrow and see if I can see any of them in flower still.
However I'm guessing I just need to clear all the rubbish and then get it ready for spring. Whilst keeping an eye on my little one in her early days at school
I can see some work ahead of you Peanuts
Is the little one settling in OK?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes, thank you nutcutlet, she is finding going into a big hall for lunch hard and having mini panic attacks which hope will get better with time, super tired, but loving it when she is there. She is at the stage of realising this is 5 days a week and that part isn't going down to well.... bless her, they grow up so fast.
They do grow fast, it's all over before you know it.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Could 3 be Canadian Fleabane? Edd recently ID'd one for me. Proper name Conyza canadensis?
1. looks like teasel (remove it as it'll spread) - big weed
2. I call it redshank (I've heard it called lady's thumb as well) - weed
3. I think Victoria is right, but it could be a type of thistle - both cases - weed
4. Geum of some sort? - probably a weed
Teasel's really nice and the finches love the seeds. Do keep it under control though. You can use the seedheads (once the birds have removed all the seeds) for decoration or, as many years ago, raising the nap of any cloth you happen to be weaving.