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Your favourite garden 'weed'?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
in The potting shed
I'm dithering between toadflax, Himalayan honeysuckle  but then there's  centranthus , centaurea and flax🤔
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    To my mind, none of those are weeds.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ok wildflowers. They are indeed in the right place.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • didywdidyw Posts: 3,573
    Toadflax grows out of people's walls in abundance around here and I am delighted that I now have it in my garden.
    Gardening in East Suffolk on dry sandy soil.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Toadflax for me. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    Lyn said:
    Toadflax for me. 

    And me. Although forget-me-not is close. Although going on the current situation I'd have to include Verbena bonariensis which has seeded everywhere.
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    Herb Robert is easy to Id and weed up. Wild strawberries too. I also have a soft spot for any medicinal weeds like prunella and even dandelion and nettle.
  • WillowBarkWillowBark Posts: 243
    White clover for me. The bees love it!
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    I like everything that's been mentioned, but I have soft spot for Welsh poppies. They have been lovely this year. :)
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    cow parsley and foxgloves at the moment
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I don't think a weed has been mentioned yet. I have several of those plants in my garden and I don't look on them as weeds.

    I like the daisies in the lawn which remind me of childhood and making daisy chains.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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