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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: saddad on June 10, 2007, 23:48:54

Title: Weeds
Post by: saddad on June 10, 2007, 23:48:54
Here are a couple of weeds we have let live...
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e190/Plot52/weeds607.jpg)
(http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e190/Plot52/weeds2.jpg)
;D
Title: Re: Weeds
Post by: Emagggie on June 10, 2007, 23:57:15
Weeds of great beauty Saddad, they deserve to live. ;D
Title: Re: Weeds
Post by: saddad on June 11, 2007, 00:03:09
That includes the foxgloves and the Calendula in the background..
There are even some self set sweet peas amongst the field poppies but they don't show up as we keep cutting them!
:)
Title: Re: Weeds
Post by: sarah on June 11, 2007, 07:33:13
beautiful, i love poppies. youshould see the plot next to emmy it is full to bursting with self seeded red poppies they look wonderful. the old boys arnt keen and think they are weeds. i know they are really but how can you help but love them.   ;D
Title: Re: Weeds
Post by: caroline7758 on June 11, 2007, 08:41:54
I've been pulling poppy seedlings out of my plot which I must have transferred in my not-so-good home-made compost. I love poppies, but not between my onions!
Title: Re: Weeds
Post by: Eristic on June 11, 2007, 10:51:37
QuoteI love poppies, but not between my onions!

It's supposed to be petunias in the onion patch.
Title: Re: Weeds
Post by: Mrs Ava on June 11, 2007, 13:33:50
That first one is an amazing colour!  I have cosmos growing like weeds on the allotment after growing them in my cutting patch last year.  Not a complaint - those and foxgloves are my weed of choice on the allotment this year.
Title: Re: Weeds
Post by: Carol on June 11, 2007, 13:55:38
My garden is full of poppys. they have germinated in the most odd places and I just cannot get rid of them.  They are not the nice ones like yours saddad, though I have some of them as well.  I was also weeding in our pebbled area last night and blow me I took up a couple of carrots and parsnips.  The parsnips came to nothing in the veggie plot so why grow this year on a stoned area.   Nature is strange.
Title: Re: Weeds
Post by: saddad on June 11, 2007, 14:48:10
One plot was totally swamped with Nigella one year...
:-[
Title: Re: Weeds
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on June 11, 2007, 21:54:56
My plot always has enough opium poppies to outdo the whole of Afghanistan. I'm starting to select them for the nicer colours, and just pull the washed-out ones as soon as they start to flower.
Title: Re: Weeds
Post by: saddad on June 12, 2007, 18:51:03
Some lovely nigella heads in the hedge at the moment, even a double blue!
8)