just about to weed from garden! I took everything out 6 months ago ready to plant in September but a whole carpet of stuff has grown back! Just wondered if anything was worth saving? I'm not getting my hopes up! ????
Thank you both for your replies. I think the top and bottom pic are same plant but the bottom one more established? Is that what you're thinking nut? I did have lots of evening primroses in the front in 2013 but then never saw them on successive years. I've had a sea of bulbs in front garden that I've now dug out completely as they never flowered for last 5-6 years even tho we spent one season dividing them and replanted but still nothing just a swath of long green leave and no flowers. Perhaps the EP didn't get a chance to germinate under the massive canopy of bulb leaves?
evening primroses are biennials, the taller ones will flower soon, seed then die. The rosettes, will do the same next year
In this pic I think you have 2 plants, bottom right a couple of hellebores and the tall thing looks like the weed Canadian Fleabane. I don't think it's Linaria purpurea, it looks too bushy at the top and that should be flowering by now.
I have literally hundreds of hellebores! I have potted some up a few weeks ago but fear I have way too many and will end up having to literally get rid of them...In the meantime I have potted up the Lycinis into the back garden already. I have have a huge bay tree, A large laurel and a rather large holly on the front picket fence. and a reasonable size hydrangea in the front corner. Taken out the forsythia last year and a winter honeysuckle. Garden is typical small cottage style about 12ft square. Felt it needed to have this main things left and then plant up with some colour now in September ready for next year - although I started this project over a year ago and nothing more has been done Its enough of a job just keeping on top of the back garden! Im sure ill get there eventually - thanks for your help as always.
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I'd keep the middle one. Can't remember what it's called but it will probably have magenta or white flowers.
yep, Lychnis coronaria, agree worth keeping. and possibly evening primroses
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thank you both for your replies. I think the top and bottom pic are same plant but the bottom one more established? Is that what you're thinking nut? I did have lots of evening primroses in the front in 2013 but then never saw them on successive years. I've had a sea of bulbs in front garden that I've now dug out completely as they never flowered for last 5-6 years even tho we spent one season dividing them and replanted but still nothing just a swath of long green leave and no flowers. Perhaps the EP didn't get a chance to germinate under the massive canopy of bulb leaves?
evening primroses are biennials, the taller ones will flower soon, seed then die. The rosettes, will do the same next year
In this pic I think you have 2 plants, bottom right a couple of hellebores and the tall thing looks like the weed Canadian Fleabane. I don't think it's Linaria purpurea, it looks too bushy at the top and that should be flowering by now.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks Nut
Is the fleabane worth keeping?
I have literally hundreds of hellebores!
I have potted some up a few weeks ago but fear I have way too many and will end up having to literally get rid of them...In the meantime I have potted up the Lycinis into the back garden already. I have have a huge bay tree, A large laurel and a rather large holly on the front picket fence. and a reasonable size hydrangea in the front corner. Taken out the forsythia last year and a winter honeysuckle. Garden is typical small cottage style about 12ft square. Felt it needed to have this main things left and then plant up with some colour now in September ready for next year - although I started this project over a year ago and nothing more has been done 
Its enough of a job just keeping on top of the back garden! Im sure ill get there eventually - thanks for your help as always.
Canadian fleabane has the most insignificant, colourless flowers you can imagine.
Leave it til someone else confirms, but if it is, dump it
In the sticks near Peterborough