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I hate borage. When I first moved into my place my back garden was 90% borage. Massive trifid bastards. Little did I know that mature borage is prickly and irritating, but I found out soon enough. The root is huge and doesn’t need much to be left behind for the damn thing to bounce back. Wankers, all of them.
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I threw down a load of wildflower mix when I first cleared the garden. There's not much between a weed and a wildflower, it's just your inclination. It's become less mixed over the years as understandably some things don't get on with the conditions. The soil is generally a bit too rich and they have to fight against the other "wildflowers" (namely borage and forget-me-nots). It all self seeds, comes up, flowers, dies down, and I pull it up as I see fit. I suspect the creeping buttercup came with one of those mixes, but I can't be sure. I try and get rid of it. Also a tall yellow flowering thing which definitely came in the mix has been nice for the last few years but this year has somewhat taken over.
Borage seems to do fine in the shade, bees love it and it's good for the ground and compost bin - but it will try and take over.