Agree with you there P'Doc - I have actively introduced most of these plants to the 'woodland border' - which is allowed to grow a little on the wild side.
I would add daisies and woodruff to the list.
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Agree with you there P'Doc - I have actively introduced most of these plants to the 'woodland border' - which is allowed to grow a little on the wild side.
I would add daisies and woodruff to the list.
Same here ... and little dog violets and wild primroses ... and meadow buttercups along the edge of the Shady Bank, Self Heal and wild marjoram along with the dandelions and clover in the 'lawn' and teasel along the back of the Sunny Corner ... all lovely plants
Oh, and how could I forget White Campion?!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This site is selling dandelions, herb robert, wild garlic, stinging nettles and willow herb. Which just goes to show. Something.
It shows that wild flowers are in fashion at the moment - Monty Don saying on the Chelsea programme that stinging nettles are important wldflowers has an impact. I guess there will be people who think that the dandelions you buy from a garden centre are somehow 'special' and are taken in, but in the broader scheme of things, it has to be good if more people grow these plants - or allow them to grow in most cases.
This is my favourite patch of foxgloves this year. Absolutely nothing to do with me - I didn't plant any of them. They are in the part of our 'garden' that is currently beyond my control, hence they are growing in amongst spear thistle and stinging nettles as well as long grass. If you wanted to know which weed I have most of, that would be cow parsley And then there's this little group growing on my 'patio' - OH piled up some small stones here and this lot seeded themselves in amongst them, growing under an old table that I keep meaning to do something about. It ought to be in the 'Gallery of Shame' really, but I have to admit to loving them, even if it does give me a slight crick in the neck to look at - ox eye daisies, foxgloves and erigeron with some willowherb and a few other bits and bobs
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Orange Hawkbit which I know as Fox and Cubs. Like all the ones listed above but would class many as wild flowers not weeds. Anyway a weed is just a plant in the wrong place!
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I would add daisies and woodruff to the list.
Oh, and how could I forget White Campion?!!!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is my favourite patch of foxgloves this year. Absolutely nothing to do with me - I didn't plant any of them. They are in the part of our 'garden' that is currently beyond my control, hence they are growing in amongst spear thistle and stinging nettles as well as long grass.
If you wanted to know which weed I have most of, that would be cow parsley
And then there's this little group growing on my 'patio' - OH piled up some small stones here and this lot seeded themselves in amongst them, growing under an old table that I keep meaning to do something about. It ought to be in the 'Gallery of Shame' really, but I have to admit to loving them, even if it does give me a slight crick in the neck to look at - ox eye daisies, foxgloves and erigeron with some willowherb and a few other bits and bobs
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Like all the ones listed above but would class many as wild flowers not weeds. Anyway a weed is just a plant in the wrong place!