By Ladybug47
CUMBRIA,
United Kingdom 
plz can i have an id of these plants,
the white one i thought was a lavetaria appeared one day 2yrs back,the 2nd has come up in two areas and i quite like its yellow flowers as do the bees,and the tall yellow spike appeared in a pot this year of something i bought,ty chris
19 Jul, 2016
Answers
The first one looks just like the Malva moschata in my garden ... foliage is quite 'ferny'.
19 Jul, 2016
Oh, okay - my malva moschata has leaves more like a lavatera, but smaller
19 Jul, 2016
sorry the spicky bit is my reedy plant as its growing right across my pond,ty for the id
20 Jul, 2016
Malva moschata has three different leaf shapes as you go up the stem. The basal ones are kidney-shaped, then they are palmate-dissected, then very finely dissected in the upper part of the plant. So everyone is right about the leaf shape!
20 Jul, 2016
Landgirl's right - never looked that closely myself before, and hadn't noticed the ferny ones nearer the top, but yes, they are there... so it is Malva moschata alba.
20 Jul, 2016
...and I learned from DianeBulley that if you plant them with brassicas they keep the cabbage white butterflies away -tried it and it worked.
23 Jul, 2016
The last pic is a Verbascum, these do sometimes pop up on their own, the middle one is Lysimachia 'Firecracker' and the top one I'm not sure of - looks more like a Malva moschata 'alba' than lavatera, but if those needle or fernlike leaves belong to the plant, it isn't either Malva or Lavatera.
19 Jul, 2016