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    Weeds? I think not.

    I stumbled into being a decision-maker at my workplace. One of the decisions involved instructing the hired landscape crew about what to do.

    There is a rough bed next to the employees entrance. I made an executive decision and instructed them to leave alone this bed of so-called weeds. It has some cheery flowers and while I took some photographs, a honeybee happened along. Honeybees and other pollinators have to eat.

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    I dont know what happened this season, but all my hummingbirds gone and most of my flowering cactus not blooming right...I dont suspect the lack of hummingbirds is my fault...has to be seasonal or migratory....or the fact I have killed every ant I have seen cause I hate ants.
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    Big difference between wildflowers and weeds....good decision.

    A saying I heard long ago: "One man's weeds are another man's wildflowers."

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    Those are very pretty "weeds"
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    Quote Originally Posted by SunDance View Post
    A saying I heard long ago: "One man's weeds are another man's wildflowers."
    Or: “ A weed is just a plant we haven’t found a use for.”



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    Yes, wildflowers. I am sad every time the local townships mow the road edges. I understand the corners at intersections but the whole road?
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    We get a lot of those flowers in the first photo- do you know what those are called? Unfortunately, many of them grow up between the stones on our patio and if they didn't get trimmed down, they'd get trampled by the pooches anyway. The ones not on the patio get to stay. Aside from the daisies, do you know the names of any of the others?
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    I love. wildflowers/weeds natural to that habitat. Good decision

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    Always nice to see a patch of wild flowers preserved for the bees.

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    Quote Originally Posted by smartrock View Post
    We get a lot of those flowers in the first photo- do you know what those are called? Unfortunately, many of them grow up between the stones on our patio and if they didn't get trimmed down, they'd get trampled by the pooches anyway. The ones not on the patio get to stay. Aside from the daisies, do you know the names of any of the others?
    First photo I’m pretty sure is fleabane.
    The yellow flower is bird’s foot trefoil,



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