The eye of the beholder

What is it they say, a weed is a flower in the wrong place.

or a flower with attitude!

:-))))

It must be a lovely sight for you to see those flowers from your garden. I like wild flowers and hope to have some in my garden this year , but I don't want them to become a nuisance and spread too much.

Thanks Hywel - I do like wild flowers. I'll post up some photos this evening when I have time. :)

I shall look forward to them :o)

I let the lesser celandines alone in my garden even though they spread out on to the lawn. After flowering the whole plant dies back and the roots continue to grow but nothing else is seen of them until the following year. The flowers are important to Bumblebees emerging in early spring when nectar is hard to find. Wordsworth wrote poems about them and wanted one on his tombstone unfortunately the greater celandine was carved by mistake.

enjoy them sarah they are beautiful. would love to see the photos.

i have just planted some lesser celendines by my pond.....

Heron`s right Sarah, weeds can be very beautiful. :o)

Oh dear - I think I need to learn to use my camera better - these were all over exposed and had to be doctored. However - paint.net came to my rescue. It is a doctoring package on the net and is both good and free!

I'm glad we all agree that weeds can be pretty little things. Now that I have a woodland patch (that sounds very grand but it is rather minature) I shall have to rely a lot on wild garlic and lords and ladies till I can populate it with more choice items.