Wild Flower Or Weed

A weed to me is a lovely plant in the wrong place.
Weed to me.
A Veronica sp.
Haven't got to grips with accurate id of these.
It creeps, spreads and can be a pest.

http://www.downgardenservices.org.uk/weedflower_blue-purple.htm

 

We used to call them "Birds eyes".

Cheers, Tony.

 

I know it as Speedwell Woo and consider it to be a weed.

 

A weed is bindweed. Everything else has its place

 

But bindweed is native!

Yes these are everywhere they do well in dry spots.. nice plant which actually brightens the bare patches up where nothing else will grow.

 

Good point there Woo, as you say, our bees need all the help they can get at the moment.

I do try to leave some wild flowers in amongst my borders. Some of these could be regarded as weeds, but to my mind they do add colour and diversity as well as being easy to grow and beneficial to insects.

You have to be selective of course, but among those I've allowed to naturalise (within limits) are foxgloves, teasels, forget-me-nots, cowslips and poppies.

 

If like mine the natives have taken over and those special plants have to struggle to get space. I have to get on top of those and make room for those tender ones which I am trying to grow too.

 

A weed is a plant that grows where you don't want it to. I find the blue of the speedwell and grape hyacinths contrasts well with the yellow of the primroses (another wild flower/weed) at this time of year, all of which are removed only when they get out of balance.

 

I used to use them as pretend cabbages in the back of my Dinky land rover, taking them to a pretend market.

Think I was about 38 at the time.

 

I don't like this phrase, it's only entered into gardening in recent years. Weeds are weeds in my book and as Armandii has pointed out you can't class all plants the same way.