Love your weeds

Buttercupdays · May 2023

How far down this road have you gone?

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/10/ditch-your-spade-forget-fertiliser-listen-to-the-weeds-alys-fowlers-guide-to-laid-back-gardening

Sheps · May 2023

All the gaps in the paving are left to the wild flowers, or weeds if you like 🙂

Lizzie27 · May 2023

Good selection there!

Buttercupdays · May 2023

@Sheps

Mine look similar to yours, but I am a little more selective

I have lots of violets, daisies, some pearlwort, the odd dandelion, Welsh poppies, forget me nots, Herb Robert or cow parsley beside the walls, but I draw the line at most taller weeds and ground elder, the bane of my life.

I love the way it looks but my daughter would clear the lot if she got the chance, she likes it tidy. If I were you though, I would get shot of that one that looks like elder before it got too big to remove!

Sheps · May 2023

Yours sounds great @Buttercupdays

The elder will get a trim in the next few weeks 😮

WAMS · May 2023

One long side of my back garden (the west facing fence) is mostlyw eeds and self-sown things and that one delphinium. I don't have to feel guilty about the fertilised within an inch of their lives 80-odd roses and other cultivated plants on the other three sides of the garden.

It would give a lot of people conniptions... kinda gives me conniptions, and I sometimes want to turn it back into a "real" flower bed... but the insects definitely like it and this is the only part of the garden I have seen hedgehogs in (last summer). I stopped pulling up nettles from here after @Dovefromabove mentioned that certain butterflies need them to lay eggs. And I *think* I saw blackbirds eating the sticky weed, too (?).

Love your weeds

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