"A weed is a plant out of place"

My favorite weed is the wild aster that come up by the hundreds on my back bank every year. Butterflies love them, and I have seen as many as 25 butterflies at one time flitting amongst them. If you can, imagine all those butterflies, along with the 20 or so ibises, herons, and other water birds that feed in the ditch the bank leads to. What a sight to see out of my kitchen window!

What is your favorite weed?

Anne-Marie
NY--zone 5

Anne-Marie
Zone 5

Mark

A weed is creeping charlie, though I fight it tooth and nail I admire it's ability to fight back. Sometimes I get in arguments with it and it cant talk so it responds by being under the next plant I get to, or behind a shrub. We have a respect for each other while we both try to win the war. This is why I dont sleep in my yard ever at night, I am afraid it would have me pinned down by morning.

G

I love good old fashioned POKEWEED ... large and flashy, tropical looking, red trunks, hugh leaves, masses of purple beries that attract birds and electric fall color ,,

I have actually PLANTED it spots !!!

my other is JEWEL WEED ,,, an impatien native to the Northeast ... grows in shady, damp places, blue-green leaves and orange yellow flowers that dangle like earrings ... the the seed pods explode when you touch them

I like to see the rabbits munching on the clover at dusk and twilight...the jelly I helped to make with Queen Ann's Lace and how feverfew has almost eliminated my migraines. Good stuff...great HERBS!!

:)
Mark

I love the felty Verbascum thapsus and most any weed I can eat. I began foraging a couple of years ago and found that I could easily fix a winter salad without even planting a single bit of lettuce. I also love perennial sweet pea and Fuller's Teasle, reminders of our Oregon Trail pioneers. Little Western Bittercress is a food plant for our parasitic wasps and a darn good salad herb so it has a place in my garden.

Darn Euell Gibbons for turning me on to these! My garden never looks neat anymore!

Enough said.

Mike

"Weeds" rearranged is nothing but "seed" with a little something extra. :) And all seeds have wonderful potential.

Bill T.

A friend once told me a weed is a plant you don't like, if you like it it ain't a weed!!!

I actually babied an alfalfa AKA lucerne plant (medicago sativa) that showed up in my flower beds one day. That is, until someone informed me what those beautiful pink-purple blossoms were. By that time, it had given birth to babies by the dozen, of course...lol

Like Jepa, I just love dandelions. So much so that lots of years ago, in a side garden where nothing else would grow in a yard we had up north, I saved tons of dandelion seeds from my yard and planted them all in that side garden. We moved a few months later so I never got to see the dandelion garden in bloom, but I wonder what the next owners (very fussy people) thought of it!!!

I thought the purslane that grew in my garden a couple years ago was the coolest, and tasted way better than dandelions ever did in a salad. I can't consider the purslane a weed though, since I've only ever seen that one plant. But it grew huge with no water whatsoever, in a year when even the dandelions were wilting.

Aaron

Eliza ann

teeheee

Amanda 'romando'

purple violets, for sure, but they can be invasive.

and love chicory but can't get it to germinate to save my soul. i need to just go and pull up some plants along the road but i never think of it, as they bloom at that time of year when you are just worn out from gardening.

also, got a freebie from the birds: partridge berry... looks like a miniature euonimous (spelling?) and thrives in shade, under hostas and covers a nice mounded border in the north areas. wish it would spread faster!