My garden's gone wild!

This is what I found when I arrived at the cottage on Sunday - a garden gone wild! I'm sure it's because the weather's been unseasonably warm, so I'm not really complaining. Just...egad, I've got a lot of weeding to do! And I don't even know what those purple plants are.

I spent nearly three hours weeding yesterday, and this is all I got done. I'm also writing and painting an old china cabinet. I haven't been for any walks yet, because it was so windy yesterday, I thought I'd blow out to sea (or lake, as the case may be). I hope to do that today, although I have the grass to tackle. With a push mower.