Plant & Weed ID Megathread

Grape Hyacinth

Paeony

Possibly a Photinia of some sort.

Edit: Sorry I read that as one post with three pictures. Still think the seeds are from grape hyacinth rather than blue bells.

If you want the bluebells to seed around then you just leave them to do so, otherwise you'd trim them off straight after flowering.

The seedling is a viburnum tinus so probably best removed.

They spread by seed and bulb offsets only. They very rarely spread vigorously. I'd only deadhead them to prevent seed forming, so more energy goes into the bud.

Lovely plant, and you can go at it with shears and cut it back after it has flowered if it is too big or straggly.

Plantain, I think. There is a flower head in the top pic centre left. A selective herbicide would probably be the best solution in your situation.

This is not a gardening query but concerns something found in the garden so hopefully ok to ask here as I have previously found the nature forum to be very quiet and lacking in responses to queries.

We have several dogs and I regularly have to go round the lawn gathering up their droppings. For the past week or so I have been coming across droppings which I know for sure are not from any of our dogs. I was thinking maybe fox. There is a stone wall about 5ft high and 1ft thick running through part of the garden. Today I found one of the droppings on top of the wall. Seems a strange place for a mammal to do its business but the dropping is too big to be a bird. So just curious, all I had to hand when taking a photo to give some idea of scale was a water bottle.

We're coastal alright and have seagulls flying overhead daily. But in all the years I'm living here I could count on one hand the amounts of times I've seen a seagull land in the garden. If I had just found the dropping on the top of the wall I would have presumed some kind of bird alright (although unlike any bird dropping I've seen before). It was the fact I've been finding the same type droppings on the lawn that made me think otherwise because we haven't observed any birds on the lawn apart from the usual garden birds.

I used to work in sea fishing and would be unfortunately quite familiar with sea gull droppings but they never looked like this, more splats of mostly white. But that's not to say you're wrong either, surprising that we haven't seen any sea gulls in the garden though as at least one of us is home most of the time.

Now that is a stronger possibility and should have thought of it myself. There have been a couple of occasions over the last few weeks when I've been up very early and there have been a couple wood pigeons on the lawn.

Just very surprised they have droppings like that, not what one would expect bird droppings to be like at all. Only for the bit of white through it one would think it was left by a small dog or similar.

They look like the Day Lilies/hemerocallia I'm pestered with but there's a good many plants start looking like that'

Another possible but they look to flat if you know what I mean?

Might help if the OP posts some pictures of any plants with leaves like that in the general area?

They do look a bit like sysirinchium to me, they have that flat look and the leaves look right. I don't think they are bluebells, especially since the bluebells are gone now. They don't have the corm for montbretia. Libertia seedlings are definitely a possibility, if you have a plant of it. As the others have said, what do you have nearby that could be a parent? (Or outside chance, do you have a bird feeder nearby?)