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Thursday, August 29, 2013
A Weed Is Just A Flower Nobody Wants
Day 331: Given free rein, candytuft would take over your garden, perhaps even more vigorously than those little yellow things you so diligently pull. What makes it a "flower" and consigns hawkweed to ignominy? I haven't got the answer, but I can testify to candytuft's persistent nature by saying that I haven't planted any for over twenty years, and yet here's a specimen poking its head up in a patch I'd let go back to grass. Something...a mole or a shrew or a beetle...must have stirred the soil and brought one lone seed near the surface. Dormant for twenty years, it sprouted. If that's not weedlike behaviour, I don't know how you'd define it.
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