#1 appears to be Lychnis coronaria. It is a biennial that seeds about, not a weed.

#2 if you do not get rid of the Veronica it will cover an awful lot of ground and you will wish you had curtailed it.

#8 is a weedy Galium sp.

#3 is ajuga, aka bugle weed, a common groundcover.

#4 is Spiraea, probably 'Magic Carpet'

#5 may be an alstroemeria but need closer look to be sure

can't see 6 or 7 very clearly....sorry :-(

And #1 (also known as rose campion) self seeds so freely that many here DO consider it a weed!! Personally, I wouldn't have it my garden - YMMV

Can you set your camera to landscape mode and get closer pics please of 3, 6 and 7? I thought of Ajuga for #3 but it don't believe it is.

I was thinking chocolate mint for #3.

Rodney

Thanks, all!

Thanks for the tips on the weeds to pull - will get on that as soon as I can get back out there.

I'll get the camera out tonight or tomorrow to take better shots - sorry for the bad pics.

I actually love my Rose Campion (though I realize not everyone does). It makes my garden look alive and fun :) And I love easy plants to grow that the deer don't eat.

Yes, the third one is a mint and not a bugle - it should have a telltale aroma. The fifth one is Linaria purpurea. The sixth is a Myosotis and the seventh is a Cerastium.

6. Is Lavender. 7. Is Mouse Ear Chickweed, Cerastium fontanum.

3. looks more like a mint to me than Ajuga. Does it have a pronounced scent when bruised?

1. is most probably Lychnis coronaria but Centaurea montana might be feasible if you have any around. Seeing some other, older, examples of seedlings would help eliminate it.

#8 agree with Gallium. Known locally as sticktight. If you let it grow it will form little seed pods that are even stickier than the stems and will stick to clothing on contact. I just pulled a bunch out of my garden (and I hate it!)

I took photos, but you all answered well from my originals.

1 I looked up images for both Lychnis coronaria but Centaurea montana seedlings - they seem to resemble L. coroniaria slightly more - time will confirm or deny this.

3 Didn't get a whiff of the mint before it was pulled - I'm sure there will be more chances! And I compared to Chocolate Mint photos - seems to be a perfect match.

4 Spirea - thanks! It's so bright and bold from early spring - and they're supposedly easy to take care of.

5 Linaria purpurea - thanks! They seem to be quite hardy up here.

6 It does look like both lavender and Spring Forget-Me-Nots, but there's no lavender scent. It seems a bit scraggly for either, so we'll see what happens.

2, 7 & 8 Will yank these babies out asap!

Thanks, all!

I have been able to view the images on a different device. 6. Is not lavender.

Thanks, gardengal! Will remember your photo uploading advice in the future.

I live on hard, rocky clay, and none of the mints seem to spread easily in that hard soil, and they die out when the cold weather hits. The new mint hasn't showed up in the hard clay, either...only in my garden beds (so far). I guess there are some positives to ugly hard clay! ;)

Staying on top of the Lychnis, Forget-me-nots and Linaria is a breeze, compared to what I call the 'real' weeds in my yard: Canada thistle, dandelions (though they have their pluses, too), and the new miner's lettuce that likely came from my neighbor's yard...plus unidentified other weeds in the hard clay. The Lychnis and linaria were given to me by a professional gardener, and I get envious comments from my neighbors about the Lychnis. It makes them happy, too!

The Canada thistle and miner's lettuce are much more work for me. Oh, and the feverfew - I thought it was lovely, until I let it take over as a ground cover over the clay this spring. When I started pulling them out, they pulled up large clods of dirt with them, just like mound of weedy grass does.

Time to go pull the easy weeds out now. Thanks for everyone's help!!!