If you like a plant, you don't think of it as a weed, you think of it as a wild flower. Like you I like lawn weeds like daisies, speedwell, self-heal. Kidney vetch looks pretty in the right place and my garden has thousands of foxgloves as well as pink and bladder campion.

If you get swamped by a particular weed you develop a hatred for it, but otherwise they add to your garden's interest. I have lots of "weeds".

Those Daisies are lovely. I like Forget-me-nots - lovely blue colour. I had a large patch of Early Purple Orchids grow up in my garden this year. For a weed they could be anyone's favourite.

As someone once said to me treat a weed as a flower just in the wrong place .

And when you think about it it is so true in many gardens.

I have Herb Robert (wild geranium or cranesbill), celandines, although they are spreading a bit too far, jack-by -the hedge (garlic mustard) and of course, the common daisies! I leave as many as I can, although I have to reluctantly wage war on the celandines!

I have lots of coomon purple toadflax which hums with bees all summer and seeds itself around generously. I love it and let it do as it pleases.

Purple toadflax is one of the ones that I've had to do battle with, Ojibway. I let too much of it seed last year and almost had a purple flowered monoculture! I was swamped by toadflax this year.

I know what you mean, Beattie. But the bees will be loving your garden.

I love Eupatorium Joe Pye Weed

That's a new one on me, Drc! What does that one look like? Does it have any other name I might know? Just curious.

I like clover growing in the lawn.

Hi Ojibway Eutrochium purpureum Joe Pye Weed is a genus of Asteraceae. It is lovely it is 4-5 ft with pretty pinky/purple flowers. It kept seeding itself in my garden and in 2009 I let one grow to see what it was and it was lovely all summer. But unfortunately everyone said it was invasive so I pulled it out in the autumn thinking I always had new ones anyway - But I have yet to see it again in my garden. I have seen at least one member put it on here so try the search box.

I just love Red campion and forget me nots.

Thanks Drc. I looked it up and it really is very pretty. I can see why you like it. I've never seen it before.

I hadnt either till I let one grow OJB

I've got loads of the purple toadflax too, and am pretty swamped with it this year, but I think it's lovely so I leave it wherever I can. At least it's easy to pull up if it becomes a nuisance. I think, once you've got it, you'll never be without it!

Mexican Evening Primrose (Oenothera speciosa rosea). Beautiful pink cup-shaped flowers with plans for world domination!

That sound pretty have you got a photo of a 'pink' EP Tugb?

No, my budget still won't let me buy a decent camera! >: (
Try this page:

http://aces.nmsu.edu/pes/lowwaterplants/documents/mexicaneveningprimrose.jpg

thanks Tugb