Plant ID's please?

Hello, I am new to this forum, and I was hoping for some help with identifying some wild flowers in the garden. It's a new house with a lovely mature garden, but I am new at gardening and have tried to identify some plants but am really unsure. I would like to maintain a mix of wild flowers in the garden without the ones that can become invasive, it would be great to know what they are. I can't post pictures yet as I am new, but any suggestions for a really good site for identifying?
I tried this one suggested, 'down garden services' but none of mine are on here.
Thanks for the help.

 

Welcome to GC BlueJay. Of course pictures are always a great help but as you say not possible at the moment. The more you post on GC the quicker you will be able to place pictures. I've put this link up for you but I think you might find it's a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack.

http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/

 

Welcome to the forums BlueJay.
To see a pic is a huge help.
A good close up of any flowers or leaves as well as a general view.
Maybe until you get enough posts you could put them on flickr and add the link to this thread.
A few at a time rather than masses at one go!

 

Thank you very much for the link, I will have a look and see if I can find any. Most of the flowers are not out yet on the plants, so I guess it makes it harder to identify them. I will get some images together and post a few, many thanks!

 

Foliage is often even more of a giveaway than the flowers. Lots of flowers look sort of the same (to me at least), but the foliage often differs wildly.

 

Thanks for the tips I have taken loads of pictures, and have identified a few. One is Pellitory of the wall, which is EVERYWHERE, it looks very pretty, but I guess I should clear some back. Also Aquillegia, which also seems nice. Any tips on those 2? Better to keep under control?

May I ask if someone please 'like' my post and I can post some pictures for you to help me out? I have tried to post links from Photobucket but it won't let me unless someone likes me
There are a few I can't guess, that are all over my garden. Thanks so much, I would love to know what is growing in my new garden. My green fingers are growing

 

Welcome to GC

Aquilegia are nice, They stay fairly well behaved except they will seed themselves around a bit, but seedlings are easy to identify and remove. Most seedlings will not be true to the parent plant as they are known to be quite promiscuous Flowers last quite a while and dead heading will give you more.

 

Thank you Gdnam, I will keep Aquilegia That's really helpful and thanks for the like, but I just saw I need 2 likes! So I will wait to post some pics.

If seedling leaves are in fact sometimes different to the parent, it will likely answer one of my plant ID questions, as it's seedlings around large shrub 'Ribes Sanguineum', seedlings are scented lemony like Ribes shrub, but leaves are slightly different. So perhaps it is Ribes seedlings, there are hundreds of them!

 

Welcome to GC Bluejay......The Lemon scented leaves....pure guess but do the leaves look similar to Nettle leaves...if so could be Lemon Balm

 

Sorry my bad, I should have said flowers from seedlings of Aquilegia may not be true to parent in colour.

Leaf shape is what makes them fairly easy to identify imo. I'll post a couple of pictures of my plants and their off spring and you will see what I mean..... just give me a little while, very important footie match going on

 

Hallo Bluejay,
you will love this place. So much knowledge and very helpful people on Gardeners Corner.

Jenny namaste

 

@Lolimac has a good point with lemon balm being a suspect. Lemon balm can be quite invasive. It gets everywhere. I believe its a relative of mint, but whereas mint tends to do most of its invading via its roots, lemon balm does it by producing thousands and thousands of very tiny, very viable seeds that will germinate in just about anything. There is one growing in a tiny crack in the concrete floor of my mam's back yard

I don't think its a problem though, as its easy to spot and pull out when its young, and if you don't mind it being there, its a bonus for the bumblebees that love it when it flowers. The flowers are pretty boring to us human sorts, being tiny and pale green/white, but the bees seem to like it.

Of course it might not be that. Lets wait til you can post pics for a positive ID.

 

Thanks everyone for some great advice, I will keep the Pellitory of the Wall around and keep a check on it, thanks. I don't think the other plant by Ribes is Lemon Balm, as leaves are not nettle shaped, I can post pictures tomorrow as a new member has to wait a few days, so thanks for all the help (and likes), I look forward to posting the pictures and I am so glad I joined!

 

As promised....

Mum or Dad (the center plant)



Offspring..



As you can see, very much the same leaf shape. Most Aquilegia will have the same shape.