Indigenous Plants some might call "Weeds"
Buttercups and daisys, forgetmenots and clover are very pretty
flowers whose beauty is wasted when we cut then down with
a lawn mower. You may or may not view the thistle as an attractive
plant, but it will attract Goldfinches into your garden and
I would argue that the thistle is a beautifully shaped and
robust plant with great colour when in flower... And how about
brambles? Well, actually they are genus Rubus, the rose family,
and their fruit include blackberries and raspberries. So when
we hack them down, we are actually depriving ourselves of
very tasty, nutritional pies and crumbles, but what is better
is that they would be free. Also, they offer safe refuge to
many birds and small mammals not to mention a favourite for
bees, so critical to the natural ecology of the garden. And
what about the Foxglove? It's an indigenous plant, but is
it to be considered "weed" or garden flower? I could
go on and on and on... but I think you get my point.
