Weeds grow, well, like weeds, out of the cracks of the pavement with nothing but municipal runoff to keep them alive. Meanwhile I have to work tirelessly to keep my tomato and pepper plants happy and fruitful. Why do weeds dominate a garden?
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Beauty isn’t as strong a survival trait as we’d expect them to be.
What we’d call weeds are just highly successful plants. They do well in a lot of climates and conditions. When I bought my property it came with three gardens of lilies. We wanted one of those gardens to just become grass (because it was leaching on to the sidewalk) and another to be a rock garden without lilies.
Every time I mow the lawn I’m mowing down lilies. Every year lilies magically appear in our rock garden. The only thing that can beat lilies for space are dandilions.
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