Help please - plant identification required!

Hi


I am currently cleaning a 6 ft x 7 ft area of my garden covered with weeds. There are some plants growing in the area, which I would like to identify (in all fairness they could be weeds also, but they looked like roses, so I haven't uprooted them yet!)


I've uploaded pics and was wondering if anyone could help identify the plants and whether they are weeds or not. I am a complete novice so I'm afraid I have no idea what the plants could be.



Pics 3 and 4 belong to the same plant.



Pic 5 is a single branch growing from the ground like a climber, the branch is about 6 feet long - I've propped it up against the garden wall for now (no flowers seen in the last 1 month)


Any advice would be most welcome.


Thanks!

 

2 & 5 look like brambles, 3& 4 could be a rose.

 

2 looks like a Bramble to me.
If it is, dig out as much root as possible, but expect the little SOB to keep coming back.

 

For the brambles, rather than digging them out (their roots go on forever, and indeed there is a superstition that they feed off corpses because they do well in grave yards, and their roots go down a long way), I'd introduce them to my mate Roundup in spring time.

I'd dig them now, because roundup isn't going to work at this time of year, then in spring WHEN they come back, I'd leave them intact and spray them.

 

Thanks Cluless. I'll bear that in mind.
I have a regular visitor from next door that I don't see until it's about 5' into the garden coming through the foliage at about 3' off the ground. Its been there years and I've usually got thick gloves and dragged it through to take as much root as possible.:wallbang::wallbang::wallbang: