We enjoy lots of plants which some people consider weeds, some are real thugs in our garden and I like them all but do try and control numbers and/or have some exclusions zones
Alkanet, forget me nots, buttercups (creeping and field), celandines, greater celandine, ox-eye daisies, bluebells (spanish and English both are equally thuggish here and hog one my sunniest flowerbeds), foxgloves, evening primrose, herb Robert, woundwort, wild strawberries, speedwell, creeping Jenny, dandelions, lawn daisies (only a very few sadly), cats ears, toadflax, harebell, hedge garlic, white dead nettle, clover
I think the forget me nots, ox-eye daisies and foxgloves are my top three favourites. Buttercups are also one of my favourite for the flowers but I do battle to stop the creeping version taking over some beds. I also love the proper blue of Alkanet flowers and happily let it grow in some areas but I certainly wouldn’t introduce it if I moved to a garden without it.
Having sat and thought about it, I’m wondering how I fit any other plants in 🤣😳
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
I'm a big fan of linaria and have both pink and blue varieties. I also let feverfew seed around. Very useful in patches of soil where not much else will grow. I've got the double ones with green leaves and the single variety with lime green leaves
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them. – A.A. Milne, ‘If I May’ Miniature Masterpieces (30 Oct. 2015)
A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. – Doug Larson (US journalist)
Alkanet, forget me nots, buttercups (creeping and field), celandines, greater celandine, ox-eye daisies, bluebells (spanish and English both are equally thuggish here and hog one my sunniest flowerbeds), foxgloves, evening primrose, herb Robert, woundwort, wild strawberries, speedwell, creeping Jenny, dandelions, lawn daisies (only a very few sadly), cats ears, toadflax, harebell, hedge garlic, white dead nettle, clover
I think the forget me nots, ox-eye daisies and foxgloves are my top three favourites. Buttercups are also one of my favourite for the flowers but I do battle to stop the creeping version taking over some beds. I also love the proper blue of Alkanet flowers and happily let it grow in some areas but I certainly wouldn’t introduce it if I moved to a garden without it.
Having sat and thought about it, I’m wondering how I fit any other plants in 🤣😳
East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
I also let feverfew seed around. Very useful in patches of soil where not much else will grow.
I've got the double ones with green leaves and the single variety with lime green leaves
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I don’t mind a weed covered lawn either, plantain, clover, buttercups, daisy, dandelion, moss, crane’s bill, yarrow anything goes.
Failure is always an option.
seeds itself everywhere in my garden, but I don't mind that.