More plant ID requests and a tiny flower bed &garden glimpse

[matanai]

Just wanting to satisfy a few curiosities brewing inside after a leisure trip around the yard with my dog. I found a mint of some kind, a lambs ear, some other mint with some pink things on it... then I wandered around to the side and the front to check out what I have growing out there. We just bought this house in November so I still don't know

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[amergina]

6 is lily of the valley

8 looks like some kind of asian lily

[matanai]

Damn it! I have too many pets to have my side yard be flooded with lily of the valley. *cry*

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[jahzcat]

1. A, B and C, MAY Be in the mint family, but I calls it a weed. it's invasive, and I've never found a use for it, and it never smelled good, so I always ripped it out.
6 is Lily of the Valley. Sorry for the bad news. If you remove it, Craigs list it or freecycle it. Personally, I wouldn't worry too much about animals eating it. My parents have let their cats out for years, and we've had Lily of the Valley in other people's yard and spread wild and it never did them harm. I think most animals instinctively know to leave it alone.
7 looks like a type of sedum. If it is, it's a great plant and is very hardy.
8 is a lily, yes, but I am not sure what type. My gut sez Asiatic.

[oxymoron02]

1 looks like something minty, but if you didn't plant it and don't want it it is a weed. Yank with wanton abandon now, before it's done flowering, or it'll go to seed and you'll never get rid of it. (Honest moment, you're going to fight it for years, pull it early and often.)

8 is a lily. My Mom plants out potted lilies every year when they're done blooming. Her dogs let them get about that big, then they eat them. They also eat plastic. Her dogs are weird.

[inannaliban]

9 is ground elder. Good thing you like it, as it is almost impossible to get rid of, and highly invassive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-elder

[wowomom]

My first thought was "Snow On The Mountain" Looks like Ground Elder and Snow On The Mountain are both common names for Aegopodium podagraria.

http://www.daytonnursery.com/encyclopedia/perennials/aegopodium.htm

When I was a kid my dad planted this under some large blue-spruce trees on the north side of our house. I don't recall them getting away from the "dead" part under those trees so I don't completely agree with your "highly invasive" opinion. Of course that may have something to do with location, we were in Zone 4 (central MN) the long winters may have retarded the growth some. Maybe further south it would get invasive.

[inannaliban]

I am in Northern British Columbian, Zone 3. I have several areas I have been trying to eradicate the stuff. Apparently there was a few pieces of root that came in with some plants I was given.

[nutmegdealer]

1. possibly catnip
2. looks life forget me nots, but their leaves aren't fuzzy
4. pull that shit up