Hi, no 1 looks like bergenia, no 2, primula, and no 3, i think is a weed but not 100% :^)

No.3 looks a bit like a yellow poppy, which seeds all over.

I agree with the first two, the third I think is a yellow coloured poppy - I have these all over my garden and know them as California poppies.

No. 3 isn't a California Poppy, but it may be a Mexican Poppy (Hunnemannia fumariifolia). I fall into line on the first two.

I'd call no.3 a welsh poppy, Meconopsis cambrica. The leaves are wrong for Hunnemannia fumariifolia, Tug and wrong too for Californian poppy (Eschscholzia californica). I agree about 1 & 2 though.

Thanks all. Do primula have cabbage like leaves? I always thought they were soft and furry - every day is a school day! There were lots of yellow smallish poppies when we moved in (August) I'll let some flower to see what they are.

Primula leaves 'could' at a stretch be described as 'cabbage like' - definitely not soft and furry! Those leaves do not say cabbage to me... but Primula.

3 is definitely Meconopsis cambrica, Welsh poppy, it will seed everywhere but can be weeded out. We've never managed to eradicate it in 21 years in our garden.

2 - Primula denticulata alba, the white drumhead primula-very desirable
3 - Meconopsis cambrica, Welsh poppy

I have plenty of number 2 in my garden. Like you, I have so many unidentified things in my garden, and at the moment, everything that I haven't identified yet, is just being left to gorw and then I should find out. Freind or Foe?

"Friend or Foe?" depends on where it is and have you got too much of it. Honesty and foxgloves are examples of plants that people buy seed for and try to encourage, but once you've got it, you're trying to curb its enthusiasm and weed it out where it's not wanted.

Brilliant thanks all. I did ask my question calling them gatecrashers rather than weeds :-)

There are some spreaders in the garden especially geraniums, both Geranium endressii and Geranium himalayense Gravetye turn into such huge mounds that they clear the ground of any other plants in a radius around them.

I obviously had a very false idea in my head about primula - thanks for setting me straight. There are about 4 of the wee white primulas 3 aren't in flower yet and the leaves have a stiff shiny appearence with a broad white spine - maybe cabbagey isn't the best description lol

Thanks again

No 3 is Meconopsis cambrica - Welsh poppy. They say it seeds all over the place, but although I live in Wales I can not get it to seed about in my garden at all. Anyway that's what it is.

Seeds like mad in our garden Hywel, never manage to dead head all of the flowers before the little pepper pots deliver their seeds. We could send you some to see if they do better for you...

Me to, I have 100s of plants the size of pic 3, happy to collect seed for you from the ones I let flower.