Cathy has a wonderful, hilly property in Germany – she’s started a meme on her Herbs and Words blog exploring the virtues of common ‘weeds’ she finds in her garden. Such a great idea! We have so many beautiful plants growing wild in fields and roadsides here in Canada – many native but many introduced […]
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Six ‘Weeds’ My Garden Can’t Be Without
As Irish novelist Margaret Wolfe Hungerford wrote in 1878 (in her book Molly Bawn), “beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” When we bought our parcel of land it was a field surrounded by trees. The field had tall grass and, according to some, a lot of weeds. Now, 15 years later, I’ve […]