Can anyone identify these plants please?

tristanjourney

I found two plants in my garden I am not sure what they are. Can anyone please help me identify them?

Thank you!

tristanjourney

Here is the first plant:

tristanjourney

and here is the second plant:

Flugelhorn

In plant (2), are those leaves (7 points) to the right of the picture actually part of it? is so I think that is a hellebore

Flugelhorn

re plant (1) have seen those spotty leaves somewhere but can't think where! Keep wanting to say Persicaria but not sure that it is

Misslayed

I think the first one is pulmonaria. 

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/14153/pulmonaria-officinalis/details

Flugelhorn

Misslayed said:

I think the first one is pulmonaria. 

https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/14153/pulmonaria-officinalis/details

I think you are right - have seen that in a friends garden and the leaves do look similar

Woolsery

This thread reminds me of a visit I had from a 'conservation officer' who chose February as a time to inspect the wild flowers and range of grasses in our fields. The sheep had been in there for about 3 months, and they'd eaten virtually everything, stomping and pooing as they went.

"Hmm," he said, "you don't seem to have much to show me."

I've never wanted one of those blow-up mallets one finds children wielding at fairgrounds so much in all my life!

tristanjourney

Apologise that the weather made the identification unnecessarily difficult. I mainly want to rule out they are not invasive plants like Japanese Knotweed or Himalayan Balsam.

baser999

Not Japanese knotweed. 

Woolsery

tristanjourney said:

Apologise that the weather made the identification unnecessarily difficult. I mainly want to rule out they are not invasive plants like Japanese Knotweed or Himalayan Balsam.

Both of those disappear below ground at this season, but from what's visible, it's highly unlikely. The dead stems are too thin. Whatever it is, it's a perennial, and the only clue is it flowered a considerable time ago.

In no particular order, I (think) I can see:

Pulmonaria, Hellebore, Geum (or it might be the weed variety Wood Avens) Dandelion, Leucanthemum...or maybe a Poppy, Hypericum and a fair bit of what looks like Couch grass. There's also something from the dead nettle family...not necessarily a weed!

HTH.