Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» Is it better to focus entirely on the flowers, ignoring the weeds or is it better to spend all your time weeding? Why?
A weed is just any plant growing in the wrong place Rosie.......like rare exotic orchids growing in the centre of a football pitch.....there would be unwanted and just pulled up....l:(
You know honey every spring in our backyard we get the loveliest crop of "volunteers". Yellow flowers that seem to spring up from nowhere. Jim says that's what his mom used to call flowers that bloomed in unexpected places. He also told me the yellow flowers were weeds. They look like flowers to me and I look forward to them every spring. What's in a name anyway, right? What is a football "pitch" NJ. Is that a football "field"? I think destroying beauty is unconscionably sad. I think I'm gonna ask that question. We need to nurture not destroy it. Thank you for your reply! :)
A football pitch is just a grassed arena where people play sports on like baseball ,foot ball or cricket..... weeds can be any flowers just growing in the wrong places and not planted by the gardeners ....
Well weeds are just stronger plants so need less help from us and they have flowers as well and many are quite beautiful. But if we are trying to grow other flowers that require our attention more then in order to get them to come up we may have to weed out the weeds to prevent the competition. Some plants in my garden, esp the more native ones, do well by themselves. But others need more care and feeding from me. And weeding.
I had occasion to look this up a few years ago (Wikipedia)---
A weed is a plant considered undesirable in a particular situation, "a plant in the wrong place". Examples commonly are plants unwanted in human-controlled settings, such as farm fields, gardens, lawns, and parks.
Taxonomically, the term "weed" has no botanical significance, because a plant that is a weed in one context is not a weed when growing in a situation where it is in fact wanted, and where one species of plant is a valuable crop plant, another species in the same genus might be a serious weed, such as a wild bramble growing among cultivated loganberries.
Many plants that people widely regard as weeds also are intentionally grown in gardens and other cultivated settings, in which case they are sometimes called beneficial weeds. The term weed also is applied to any plant that grows or reproduces aggressively, or is invasive outside its native habitat.[1] More broadly "weed" occasionally is applied pejoratively to species outside the plant kingdom, species that can survive in diverse environments and reproduce quickly; in this sense it has even been applied to humans.
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