[Growster...]

Like most people, I spend some considerable time hoeing, hands and knees plucking and generally taking weeds out of the plot.

I only realised last week, that I know so few weeds by their names, even though they turn up every time I do a bit of tidying, and that's a shame, as there really are some beautiful wild flowers out there, and most of them don't have a handle...

[DD.]

I've got a handle for them.

It's on the end of my swoe! 

I don't care what they're called. 

[mumofstig]

some of them are undoubtedly pretty, but most are a darn nuisance.

I have a lot of borage on my plot, just one plant left to set seed last year on next door plot, and now the whole site has it 

I like this site 
http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/

[Growster...]

I've got a handle for them.

It's on the end of my swoe! 

I don't care what they're called. 

Oh, I agree DD, but it took me ages to understand what 'fatten' was, (Dennis again) until I realised it was 'Fat Hen'.

Then I knocked all that stuff over as well!

[Yorkie]

Thanks for that link MoS, just found out that the weed I've just filled a wheelie bin from my garden is called herb robert 

[mumofstig]

I have loads of that in the garden   but it does pull out quite easily, I find 

[sarajane]

some of them are undoubtedly pretty, but most are a darn nuisance.

I have a lot of borage on my plot, just one plant left to set seed last year on next door plot, and now the whole site has it 

I like this site 
http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/

About 3 years ago one, just one, borage plant grew on my plot and I thought wow, how pretty is that.....  wishing now I had taken my hoe to that particular plant 

[Elcie]

Oh dear, I think it was a borage plant I planted in my square foot front garden a couple of weeks ago because I thought the flower looked pretty!

[mumofstig]

Tis lovely! you just have to remember to snip the flowers off before the seeds dry

[Christine]

I spent my childhood learning the name of weeds. But then I did live on farms.

[compostqueen]

I was weeding today and feeling a bit concerned as they were smothered in hoverflies and ladybirds so I've left a few patches which I can  clear away later when the insects have left 

I know most of the names of the weeds just as I do the wildflowers as they interest me and think a healthy soil means you inevitably get weeds. 

[Springlands]

I know most of the names of the weeds just as I do the wildflowers as they interest me and think a healthy soil means you inevitably get weeds. 

If lots of weeds mean a healthy soil - then I must have a healthy soil.     

[Growster...]

I was weeding today and feeling a bit concerned as they were smothered in hoverflies and ladybirds so I've left a few patches which I can  clear away later when the insects have left 

I know most of the names of the weeds just as I do the wildflowers as they interest me and think a healthy soil means you inevitably get weeds. 

That's the sort of response I was looking for CompostQ!

Yeah, they're a darned nuisance, but items like Borage are gorgeous when in flower, or a Pimms...

[compostqueen]

My borage look fantastic and are covered in bees the whole time. I have one of my many plants in with the lime green romaines, bright orange calendula and a deep red Empress of India nasturtium. It looks stunning!  I have loads of flowers on the plot this year that are all self-seeders.  I just plant the veg round them 

[Growster...]

We have fennel growing wild, and like you, just let a couple go for a while, and work round them...

Silly really, as they really do take a lot of space, but this is at home, not on the plot, so it works!

One's over 6' tall...