It's SO strange to see your pix, your plants are so much further along than our growth up North... but I am in full agreement with esh_ga: Up here we would call them "Wild Violets" (weed) and Wild Geraniums (weed - unless you planted an heirloom Geranium in years past and it has reseeded). The "toad lillies" are the leaf sets with the pink/purple spots. Enjoy the rest of your "way ahead of us" Spring! Mekales

G.maculatum...one of the best do nothing, no pampering perennials in my garden. I have G.maculatum as a groundcover and in a roof top garden. Leave the leaves on. New growth will emerge and grow up beyond the old leaves, that have turned red over winter. The old leaves get pushed down in contact with the soil, die off and mulch the crown. It is a very efficient plant. Sometimes if the foliage is looking very tired in August, I will rip out the fringe of old growth at the edge of the plant mound. By September, with cooler temperature, there is a flush of new, green growth. I love this plant.

Oh boy!! Well, at this point I'm concentrating mainly on getting the garlic mustard out and only pulling others when they're right in with the GM. Hopefully the 2nd isn't as prolific as the GM, or I'll be in another world of hurt next year! I'm still dealing with the remnants of Jerusalem artichoke as well! Yeesh! OH BTW - could #1 maybe be an Actaea? I'm really hoping not to have to pull it - I've got a bit of it in there and it's actually kind of pretty in a group - I'm gonna keep an eye on it, and see if it blooms and what they look like.

I planted black cohosh this year. It didnt bloom but it didnt die either so thats a start That book will go over how to mix them all together and in what proportions and layers to avoid creating a muddled mess. I have or tried to grow a bunch of your plants. Something in my soil does not agree with Monarda, I dumped 4 packs of seed on one spot this spring and planted one near that, and none of them sprouted and the planted one turned black from the bottom up and died within a week. The penstemon, Agastache, achillea and baptisia nearby are all doing fine, although the Liatris suffered a similar fate after doing well for a while. I planted leadplant 2 years ago which is still hilariously small, but I hope they are just building roots, they didnt seem to surface until july of this year. Ohio spiderwort is a nice plant. Flowers are on the small side and the seed/flower stalks got heavy and flopped but those plants have bloomed every single day since May. My hoary mountain mint attracted a frightening amount of bees, wasps, and similar looking creatures. They have Dicentra eximia for sale at a land preserve here, if interested. Id be interested in the white snakeroot, tall bellflower, and smooth blue aster