One man's weed is another man's wildflower...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

Post your faves.


Here are a few of mine:

Smartweed:

Asiatic Dayflower:

Dandelion:

Partridge Pea:

[Mr. McD]

1. Indeed, here is my favorite weed.

Thistle

[HysteryDiagnosis]

2. Mmmmmmmm milk thistle....... eat 'em up yum.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

6. Especially good if you're downing a few brews.

:beer:

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. I absolutely love Guiness.... don't know about the Goddess..... and

btw, Guiness reminds me of Guinnivere (sp) the CSNY song of old.... just thought you should know that. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. They are lovely!

And they're far too painful to dig up, anyway! :D

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. I like those wild sweet pea relatives (at least I think that's what they

might be, but the flowers aren't like pea blossoms. The are purple and sectioned in a long row... like a purple catapillar.)

So I guss that's my vote for a weed that makes it as a wildflower.

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Do you mean lupine?

http://www.dickandwitta.com/Arty%20Photos/Photos_Nov_03/images/1%20Authur's%20Pass%20Lupine.jpg

[GreenPartyVoter]

10. No, those are real flowers *g* The things are very dainty and tiny and

they thread their way through the tall grasses here. I may have gotten a pic of some this summer. I'll have to check and see. :)

[GoddessOfGuinness]

15. Ooo...I'll bet it's vetch...

They're related to clover, I believe...

[GreenPartyVoter]

28. So that's what it's called! Is it considered a weed or a flower?

[miss_kitty]

31. It's a cover crop

it's a nitrogen fixer from the Legume family.

[GreenPartyVoter]

34. I noticed the seed pods. Hence why I thought it was a sweet pea cousin.

Well that and the tendrils it puts out.

I like it. It look so pretty with the daisies and clover in the meadows. :)

[miss_kitty]

36. It's an excellent soil building plant

Legumes fix nitrogen from the air. It's natural fertiliser-it's the one that makes leaves grow and be green. It's the first number on the fertiliser label.

[GreenPartyVoter]

37. Yeah. I haven't been able to find my

Scotts All Purpose Plant Food 18-9-18 in stores for the last two years, and my garden really didn't do well because of it. (Fairly clay-ey here and I can't afford to add a lot of loam to it. But that food works wonders despite the soil.)

[tigereye]

38. it's one of those pretty "invasives"

[LaraMN]

4. Some of my MN faves:

Bitter Nightshade


Jack-in-the-Pulpit


Bluebells


Lupines

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Nightshade is related to tomatoes....

which is why many people thought tomatoes were poisonous.

I love lupine! Wish I lived up north!

[GreenPartyVoter]

11. You must be able to grow blue bonnets though, right?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

16. Do they do well in shade?

My yard is like a jungle! :D

[obxhead]

21. Those are cool!

[Rowdyboy]

35. Those are stunning photographs.....

Here are a couple of my favorite Mississippi wildflowers....

Passionflower (maypop)



Cardinal flower



Native azalea



Golden rod

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. I used to have lobelia cardinalis in my garden...

The hummingbirds liked it. :D

I love those native azaleas too...and the mountain laurel that often blooms around the same time. Thanks for the beautiful pics!

[Rowdyboy]

46. I have a malvaviscus planted under one of my feeders.....

The hummers alternate, but they appear to love the flowers even more than the sugar water. Less competition from the bees too.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

50. That's an interesting plant...

It reminds me of the rose of sharon plants that are all over my yard.

We have a trumpet vine growing up a choke cherry tree in our yard. It offers great humming bird viewing from the second story of our house.

[sweetheart]

12. white widow

[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Wow!

I've never seen anything like that before! Where does it grow?

[MirrorAshes]

27. that, m'dear, is a fine specimen of grade A marijuana.

probably grown with great care at an undisclosed location ;)

[sweetheart]

29. special grow rooms

To get the bud to have the long hairs like that, to really develop big,
takes a few months at 12 hours of intense sunlight, and 12 hours of
darkness. This fools the plant in to thinking that it must flower for
longer, and the flowers grow so big and sticky that they look like the
one in the photo.

You can buy on-line a special tent-closet to grow the entire crop in
your spare room if you're a rich yuppy.
http://www.growell.co.uk/p/1433/The_GroWell_GroW_Tent.html
Otherwise, the less rich grow it in the yard, or in the wilds
somewhere... and hence why the drugs war mostly targets the poor.
The rich are able to afford the concealment and privacy.

Grow rooms are the ultimate ends for every cannabis user, as they
enable them to be self-sufficient without exposing themselves to
supplier criminality, or weed that has been chemically tampered with.
Then home growers try out different strains of cannabis to see what
works best with their personal chemistry, sort of like how wines
suit different pallettes. White widow is a special pallette, and a
particular smoke you can order in an amsterdam coffee shop.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

44. Pretty stuff...

My younger wilder days are done. Still, I'd grow it as an ornamental if it was leagal. :D

[spacelady]

20. Looks wicked! MMMM

[miss_kitty]

32. I'll bet that's some sweet sweet stuff

I'd LOVE to have that one growing in my area

:smoke:

[anarch]

33. That is a beautiful, beautiful plant

:thumbsup:

[VelmaD]

13. Gotta go with buttercups...

I like the pink ones best:


And here they are mixed in with bluebonnets...I love spring in Texas:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

19. Beautiful!

I like that lone daisy-like flower in the lower pic, too. It looks like Galliarda, which my grandma used to grow in her Florida gardens.

[tigereye]

39. I really like Galliarda

hey Goddess!

Let me look around and see if I can find a cool "weed" that I like.

[Gregorian]

14. From the front yard.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

22. If those are weeds

what, pray tell, do you plant?

Nice photos! :D

[Gregorian]

24. Those were total volunteers.

And my new place is really wild. Wave after wave of mystery plants.


Thanks!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. We had a strange vine volunteer one year in our veggie garden

It looked like a pumpkin, so we kept it. We harvested a bunch of these:

[Gregorian]

30. Those are weird!

I've never seen anything like that before.

I have to laugh. If you ever saw the episode of Black Adder where the extreme orthodox Christian relatives are eating dinner. Never mind. Haha.

[tigereye]

41. "why does your turnip look like a thingie"

he he he

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. I'll have to watch DVDs of it, I guess

:D

[tigereye]

40. teh second one looked like California poppy

I saw a lot of those in SF when we were there this summer. I love them, but I seem to be unable to grow poppies of any type. They don't like me. :(

[Xithras]

47. California poppies are the easiest plant to grow...if the climate is right

Out here, there's all kinds of groups that give seed packets to my kids every year, and every year my kids proceed to "plant" them by flinging the seeds over my vegetable garden. Every year, I end up picking my vegetables from between the poppy plants.

Poppies are easy to grow as long as the temperature is right (between 70 and 80 degrees) and plenty of water is available. Like most Californians, our poppies don't deal with the cold very well :)

[sundog]

17. datura

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. Pretty!

Is it a vine?

[iwalktheline]

26. I tried wildflowers once

never did get high

:shrug:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

48. I hear that mugwort tea

has a mild hallucinogenic effect...

[leftofthedial]

53. alas! "mild" usually doesn't do it for me anymore

but maybe I'll try it.

very pretty and enjoyable thread. I'm sorry not to have contributed more substantially.

[tigereye]

42. Indian Paintbrish

found in a web search... I love any type of "paintbrush" flower...



sorry so small...

oops, here's the bigger pic

[GoddessOfGuinness]

49. That's beautiful! Speaking of "Indian" flowers,

How about Indian Pipe?

Strange stuff, no?

[Lilith Velkor]

51. Queen Anne's Lace

[GoddessOfGuinness]

52. Once, and only once, in my wild and crazy youth...

I thought it would be so romantic to boogaloo in a remote field of queen anne's lace, and my partner, being a considerate gent, decided to indulge my whim.

Neither of us realized at the time that these flowers are often covered with chiggers. But we did, soon after. :blush:

[tigereye]

54. you know

I used to love QA lace, but man, it gets everywhere! Although, when you pull it it smells like carrot. I think it's a natural dye color, too.


that's a cute story.

[alarcojon]

55. Now here's a weed!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

56. See #12...

Yours is interesting, too. What's with the orange stuff?

[alarcojon]

57. Damn!

Scolled right by it without recognizing it!