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What's your favourite must-have 'weed'?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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Mine's purple toadflax. It's just as good a mixer as vb but it's bushier and doesn't get so high. 
They make a great team!
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Dandelions or clover. Tough choice.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Kitty 2Kitty 2 Posts: 5,150
    Clover, in the grass.  I can't bring myself to call it "the lawn" 😉.
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    I like purple toadflax too but keep it where I want it to be.
    SW Scotland
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Dandelions and clover in the ' lawn' are fine - no where else.
    Joyce, I find it sometimes has better ideas than me! If I disagree, it's off to the compost heap.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Purple toadflax, feverfew and valerian


    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Foxgloves. They love it here. I planted a few white ones and they're off making shades of pink babies all over the place. 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,295
    Herb robert is looking lovely in some of the wild bits of the garden at the moment.

    There is also some himalayan balsam on our river bank and on an island halfway across. I know it's really frowned upon .... but our honeybees just love it.
    We can tell when they been foraging on it as they come back to the hives covered in white pollen and looking like little ghost bees.

    Bee x
    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2018
    Looking at your lists, I have to agree. I couldn't do without them either. 
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    No himalayan balsam in these parts, but that reminds me I'd have to add himalayan honeysuckle to the ever increasing list oh and primroses and violets ans aquilegia while I'm at it. And scarlet Pimpernel.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SussexsunSussexsun Posts: 1,444
    Another vote for toadflax and I also like red campion both of which I am trying to get to spread in a shady part of the garden where a lot of plants don’t do well.
    To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I don't regard most of these as weeds.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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