Through WEED COLORED glasses
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- jerrib
- LadyB
- Carol Wallace
- biogardener
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» jerrib - Smiling as I read
I like most weeds! Especially when they flower. My husband informed me I have weeds in my perennial garden. I said, "I know, I like them". What can he say. I don't like them to take over, but there really are some beautiful weeds in the Pacific Northwest.Jerri
-- posted by jerrib
» LadyB - Want to hear a GENUINE funny???
I was out futzing with a sleepy little border at the base of my only slightly tacky lattice fence to screen me from the neighbors. The very few morning glories that even bothered to germinate are yawning over too much shade, the passion vines I hauled out of the greenhouse floor just aren't sure they want to DO anything but sit there and look befuddled and here I am GRUMBLING about my inability to get anything to CLIMB that confounded FENCE while I am REMOVING just MILES of Ground Ivy vines from between the Motherwort.
DUH
Now, granted, chances are very good that it has earned its name GROUND ivy by NOT climbing fences, but I suppose it's worth a try. It will have no place to set down roots like it does on the ground, but hey.....ya never know!
-- posted by LadyB
» Carol Wallace - Jerri
If you like them - then they are not weeds. Weeds are plants that you don't like, growing where you don't want them!-- posted by Carol Wallace
» biogardener - Some municipalities are very specific.
Some municipalities are very specific in what they allow people to grow in their front yards. You will remember Carol Wallace's In Focus: Freedom and Your Front Yard in which we all contributed articles about this very topic. I told about the situation in Toronto and in Winnipeg. Toronto used to have a by-law which stated that the growth in your front yard was not allowed to be higher than 6 inches. Anything exceeding 6 inches in a front yard was considered a weed, although it could have been considered a flower in the back yard. My article talks about the court case which forced the the City of Toronto to amend that by-law, but I am told that just last year, the city went back to its original by-law by demolishing a yard with growth exceeding the 6 inches.So, in Canada, a weed is defined by the number of inches and by the location where it grows. Again, truth is stranger than fiction.
-- posted by biogardener
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