We moved this year in the fall and now with many beautiful things growing, I have found many things I'm not certain of. Do I pull them, even if they are pretty because they are invasive or do I just wait it out??

I've searched google and was hoping someone on here might be able to identify these plants and give their experience or advice about what to do with them.

Thanks for any input!

First picture is something I thought might be some sort of Japanese lilac, but they're about 5 in my yard and all under pine trees...so thinking they are invasive somethings.

Then there is something that is growing crazy over the edges that the previous owner did, which is fine if it isn't a weed

And then 2 plants that are in the bed all over but the picture I got was next to each other. So they are alone in other parts of the bed in clumps which has me hoping they are something good!!

 

I do know that behind the second picture of the leaves overflowing the bed there are bishops caps and maybe wild geraniums...they told me it was a native perennial garden to MN where we live zone 5. But I'm not sure?!

 

Some of the others, who are more versed in horticulture, will chime in here, so stay tuned. The bottom picture, I believe, is vinca minor, and, although somewhat invasive, it is a great ground cover and does not grow tall. We have it between walkways at our church and it seems to frame in our other plants with "green" without being weedy looking.

We are overrun, this year, with poison ivy, poison oak and honeysuckle. We garden organically, so my wife goes out daily with her clippers and snips the tops of the poison ivy, which I tell her is not solving the problem. I have researched Roundup, and although many cringe at using herbicides, I have found for woody stemmed encroachments, when applied properly, and not in a random manner, it can help contain these things. If you spray the outer leaves of a string (say poison ivy) the Roundup will kill only that plant to the roots, and stays contained in that plant and will not leach further in the ground to harm anything else. We have blackberries mixed in with all this crap and after several Doctor visits for poison ivy and Prednesone treatments, my wife has relinquished the job to me, with the stipulation that I not harm any good growing stuff. Roundup works within 24 hours. So far so good. I think your plantings are not that invasive, and you can do a wait and see on some of it, as good ground cover is nice to have in hotter weather. Leave all your native plantings that you can. Even our acreage is certified as Native botanical area, and we love the naturalness of things.