Open a free account at a photo-hosting site like Photobucket, transfer your pics from your computer file to your album, then copy and paste the HTML code below the thumbnail right into your message. Post your pics in 'Name That Plant' forum(or this one)and you will surely get an ID. HTH

I agree with annie........location and climate have a great deal to do with how well plants establish and spread or display weedy/invasive tendencies. What may be a very well-behaved garden plant in Mindy's MA may be a rampant thug in the OP's much milder VA location. Actually, the PNW doesn't necessarily have more "noxious weeds" than other locations.......because this is primarily an agricultural state, we just tend to be very proactive in identifying those that are or could become problematic :-) Many plants that ARE considered invasive on the east coast are NOT here - like burning bush, Japanese barberries, nandina, etc. And we don't get all that much snow.......I'd venture to say no more than NJ, perhaps quite a bit less!

Dymondia magaretae

The gold plant (original photo 3) next to the gold creeping plant is either a Heuchera/coral bells or perhaps a Heucherella which is a cross between Heuchera and Tiarella. They come in a wide range of foliage colors from solid gold to green to deep red to silvery to gold with red markings, green with silver or white markings, etc, etc. The photo 4 in the original set is unquestionably an Astilbe.