My garden is full of plants that some will find undesirable: Crocosomia, Loosestrife, Anemones, Alchemilla Mollis (so much Alchemilla!). I do cull some of them, but actually most of them fill out the borders and add splashes of colour. It would massively time-consuming to remove them all and very costly to find replacement plants. I quite like my sprinkling of garden thugs (apart from Carex - they annoy me!) and in the right place, they can look great. As for the smaller 'weeds', Dandelions are about the only one I actively dig out, or anything that sprouts up in paving that I dont like the look of.
Oh - forgot to mention Bindweed - obviously that is not tolerated!
Not sure whether it's classed as a weed but welsh poppy seeds all over the place here, I'm forever digging bits up but in some places, like along a gravel path and in really shady bits of the garden I leave it to grow as it's quite nice, I just wish it wouldn't seed as much!
Nut: to me, those wild flowers are not only desirable but are essential in a garden - they look beautiful. It's all about the setting and the effect. Thumbs up from me.
Nut - that's my idea of heaven Glorious wildflowers.
I think my first wildflower was a little clump of dog violets that appeared one spring. Since then I've tried to propagate as many different species as possible. The latest are some germinating hedge woundwort and a purchased specimen of valerian officinalis. I have some herb robert too
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My garden is full of plants that some will find undesirable: Crocosomia, Loosestrife, Anemones, Alchemilla Mollis (so much Alchemilla!). I do cull some of them, but actually most of them fill out the borders and add splashes of colour. It would massively time-consuming to remove them all and very costly to find replacement plants. I quite like my sprinkling of garden thugs (apart from Carex - they annoy me!) and in the right place, they can look great. As for the smaller 'weeds', Dandelions are about the only one I actively dig out, or anything that sprouts up in paving that I dont like the look of.
Oh - forgot to mention Bindweed - obviously that is not tolerated!
Not sure whether it's classed as a weed but welsh poppy seeds all over the place here, I'm forever digging bits up but in some places, like along a gravel path and in really shady bits of the garden I leave it to grow as it's quite nice, I just wish it wouldn't seed as much!
Nut: to me, those wild flowers are not only desirable but are essential in a garden - they look beautiful. It's all about the setting and the effect. Thumbs up from me.
Thanks AuntyRach,
I've got some particularly good dandelions atm
In the sticks near Peterborough
I agree, really lovely pics. I will keep the speedwell
Nut - that's my idea of heaven
Glorious wildflowers.
I think my first wildflower was a little clump of dog violets that appeared one spring. Since then I've tried to propagate as many different species as possible. The latest are some germinating hedge woundwort and a purchased specimen of valerian officinalis. I have some herb robert too
Plenty of daisies & dandelions in the lawn here, the bees & hoverflies go mad for them. Not a problem for me, as long as the lawn is green
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http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/plants/my-weedy-garden/980578.html
My weedy garden last year. Fewer euphorbia this year.
What happened to the euphorbias? they look fantastic in the photo
In the sticks near Peterborough