365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
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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