Re: weeds

I didn't mention one of my favorite volunteers that I don't really
consider a weed although it chooses its own sites.  This is
Digitalis ambigua, the perennial yellow foxglove.  It was
growing here when we moved here, though I don't believe it
was wild.  I've never seen it anywhere else.  I love it because
it grows where other things don't, like deep shade, dry clay, 
and generally difficult spots, and because the deer don't
touch it.  It is just coming into bloom now, and will continue
to bloom, off and on, most of the summer.  At its peak, it
lines the boulders and dark pathways with soft yellow 
spikes like candles.  I have a friend who declares anything
that grows where she didn't plant it is a weed.  She misses
a lot.
Auralie
 
In a message dated 06/01/2007 2:06:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
holmesbm@usit.net writes:

My volunteers also include California poppies, that I let stay in the
middle of the lawn since they are few and so beautiful, verbena bonariensis
(my climate is wetter than yours, I think), gold cosmos, Dame's rocket,
iron weed (gets out of hand if I don't curb it), violets (I pull many of
these but let a large patch work as a ground cover in the shady back),
yellow four o'clocks, celosia, Verbascum thapus (just a few), Rudbeckia
hirta, solidago, and a daisy-like flower that has really taken over and
must be pulled this weekend.  (This flower has small white rays and heavily
toothed leaves unlike the more oval of the oye-eye and shasta.) 





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