New to gardening: Are these weeds or plants?

Hi

Just got my first garden there are few established plants no idea what they are can you help?

Is this a weed?



Some kind of Rose? Sorry it got windy when i took this picture:



This is very well established and there is a lot of it:

 

The first one is a grass Gardener's Garters, Phalaris arundinaera Picta. Can be very invasive and hard to get rid of.
Sorry eyesight is too poor these days to id the others.

 

Yeah it has taken over most the front border.

I can try to get some better photos of the others, the plants that I do have seem to be really struggling.

 

Welcome to Gardeners Corner

 

Thanks Zigs, this seems like the perfect place to get advice for my garden.

 

2. Leaves don't look right for a rose.
May need till there is more to photograph.
3. Cannot get a scale on pic.
How tall is it?
Please can you pick a leaf and crush it... what does it smell like?
Wondering about Artemesia?
Ooops! Must be going senile... meant Helichrysum.. eg curry plant.
Long time since I ever had a good look at it... which is why I asked about smell.
Would rule out Lavender and or curry plant

 

i thought the third looks like a herb like rosemary? Its about 2.5 - 3ft tall.

If the rain holds off i'll try to get a couple more pictures when i get home.

I've googled a picture of Artemesia and it doesn't look like that to me.

 

is Gardeners Garters a weed?

 

What do they mean by Suckering:

http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=5090

Characteristics

Plant type

Grass-like
Habit

Suckering

 

See added post above... re senior moment!
Suckering means it grows by sending our roots into the soil.
A new plant will pop up where ever the roots grow.
So it can become an invasive thug.

 

no 3 looks like lavender to me. Some of the old types of Lavendula angustifolia are lovely big plants, with much wider leaves...

 

Ooooh not sure I fancy something smelling like curry outside my window. (assuming thats what a "curry plant" smells like.

I wasn't brave enough to step outside my flat last night, it was raining heavy and blowing a gale. It felt like a winters night.