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My favourite 'weed'

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  • GearóidGearóid Posts: 198
    Sow thistle. I have a tortoise who loves it so I'm always delighted when it arrived in the garden. It never lasts long as it's promptly eaten!


  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108
    I have allowed a few patches of orange hawkweed, which is lovely, but gosh it covers ground fast, and I’m regretting it. It’s hard to keep on top of. 
  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    I find orange hawkweed has a nasty habit of getting into clumps of perennials, and then being very hard to remove as it throttles them

    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • Jude MJude M Posts: 5
    I have quite a lot of Herb Robert, which apparently shouldn't be grown in the garden.  There are also a couple of plants about to flower which I think are poppies.  Also, a leftover potato has grown this year - is that a weed?  I actively plant seeds of wildflowers such as cornflower and foxglove, which some people may still regard as weeds despite the recent interest in wild gardening.  A few years ago I had a garden where ground elder grew, which many regard as a pernicious weed, but I thought it looked pretty when flowering behind the pink cultivated geraniums.
  • Jude MJude M Posts: 5
    Gearóid said:
    Sow thistle. I have a tortoise who loves it so I'm always delighted when it arrived in the garden. It never lasts long as it's promptly eaten!


    I had this at one of my old homes, along with a path full of dandelions.  As I dislike using weedkiller, I resigned myself to removing them constantly, until the rabbit got out and demolished them.
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Just posted on another thread but my fav has to be ragged robin. It’s pretty pink flowers look lovely bobbing around and the bees love it. When it self seeds it can be a pain popping up in unexpected places but I let it be and just cut off the seas heads before they get a chance to spread further.
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Intruder? - somehow implies 'unwelcome' :)

    Volunteer?
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    But volunteers are good guys. They're the ones you choose to keep ;)
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Some flowers I don't like and some are thugs.
    Some weeds I like. Some are thugs. And some are just in the wrong place. VB is becoming a bit of a weed in parts of my garden but it's a flower in others.
    'Weedy' is a misnomer. Most weeds are pretty vigorous. But I suppose you never see the weedy weeds because they don't grow🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Feverfew is one of my fav plants
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