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You are visiting an open garden and you see a weedling

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Jellyfire said:
    Pull a weed out of my garden at your peril! One mans weed is another mans wildflower 
    That would be my thoughts too.  Don't mess with somebody elses garden unless asked to do so.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Leave it
    I feel it's a bit rude to pull weeds out of someone else's garden.  I'd be a bit insulted if someone did it in mine.
    Agree! As insulting as that clown Trump brushing off Macron's 'dandruff' on his visit to Washington. :D

  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    If someone you hardly knew invited you into their home, would you start cleaning their sink?
  • If a visitor to my home pulled one weed, I would be insulted.  If they pulled the lot, I'd be delighted.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited June 2018
    It sounds like a Taoist proverb, Glasshopper.
  • glasgowdanglasgowdan Posts: 632
    Do NOT mess with someone else's garden!
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    edited June 2018
    Pull it out
    Say what you like...if I see willow herb in someone's immaculate little manicured flowerbed...it's coming out!
    If I don't know what it is, if there is a clump of it, if it has a pretty flower or attractive foliage or looks as if it's there on purpose I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.
    Otherwise... Pfsht! Out!
    When my garden is 'on the map' you're welcome to pull all the willowherb you like. Just don't touch the red campion, toadflax, hawkweed, bluebells, wild primula, lady's smock, ragged robin, self heal..........and good luck with the thistles, nettles and dandelions! 
  • granmagranma Posts: 1,933
    Maybe the willow herb was purposely planted .....to attract the Elephant Hawk carerpiller!  I must admit some weeds I do leave (a little )just for the insects. !
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Leave it
    Don't criticise other people's children, write in other people's dust, run off with their husbands or weed their gardens ... if you haven't got enough to  do volunteer at your local hospital or join the local pub darts team. lol

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Valley GardenerValley Gardener Posts: 2,851
    Ooo I dead headed some flowers whilst waiting for OH to pick me up outside the GC !  It was a raised bed about waist high belonging to them,I never gave it a thought! Naughty!
    The whole truth is an instrument that can only be played by an expert.
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