Plant or weed?

Do you like it? If so, it's a plant. If not, it's a weed.

It's beautiful. I can't really see what it is. Perhaps Yellow Archangel? In any case it's most likely a native UK wildflower so why not let it spread. It will surely attract insects or bees. There is no such thing as a weed really. They are wild plants which we need for biodiversity and we shouldn't hurry to pull them up and plant non-native species.

It’s loosestrife. This is what it looks like in my garden.

It looks like yellow loosestrife, I’ve got some in my garden. It’s pretty, but spreads quickly.

Snap Janeainsworth!

Very nice too! A lot of our native plants are pretty and easy to care for. They attract pollinators ad suffer few problems. I have ox-eye daisies, field marigolds and cornflowers everywhere this year.

Lysimachia vulgaris or as others have said yellow or garden loosestrife.

Thank you I'll try and dig it out and replant it somewhere in the garden rather than at the side of the shed where it can't be seen. It is rather pretty.

If it`s pretty i don`t care if it`s a weed or not,i will keep it coming up.

If you can it would be best to ty to include a large lump of soil with it so as to minimise disruption to the roots then fill the hole with soil from elsewhere. Perhaps dig the reception hole first and use the soil from there. A good idea would be to put the plant in a plastic bag while you transport it so that bits of soil do not drop off the underneath while you are moving it, even if the moving is only a short distance.