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Your favourite "weeds"?

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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Rocket -it has popped up all over the place after the intense rain we had!!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    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
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    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.
  • Common Poppy’s are my favourite. 

    I don’t mind a weed covered lawn either, plantain, clover, buttercups, daisy, dandelion, moss, crane’s bill, yarrow anything goes. 


    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

  • zugeniezugenie Posts: 831
    Lawn daisys! Will never understand why someone would want to remove them from their lawn
  • I was delighted to find feverfew a couple of years ago. 
    Southampton 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Mine disappeared one year and I had to buy some. A tidy gardener or two thought I was mad.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • owd potterowd potter Posts: 979
    Alchemilla Mollis
    seeds itself everywhere in my garden, but I don't mind that.  
    Just another day at the plant...
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Fox and cubs and celandines.  
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
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