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There are a couple in your article I hadn't seen. (Fingers crossed) I definitely have bindweed and creeping Charlie though! And something else that wasn't on the list. I'm printing this article for reference. Thank you for a good job, Paul.
Every year when the dandelions sprinkle our lawn, I'm frantically urging DH to mow before the flowers turn into puffballs and broadcast their seed over yet more of the lawn. Is this only a side aspect of their bid for world domination? I know we have to dig them up if we really want them gone, but does the puffball stage result in zillions more seedlings, or is that old-fashioned of me to think so?
Bindweed is evil! It has taken over the native plant display in our Community Garden and I fear we'll never get it out. On the other hand, I welcome dandelions in my yard - my pet tortoise loves to eat them.
I have just read an article in a New Zealand newspaper recommending that some plants long concidered weeds in the fields, should be allowed to grow because they add so much more vitamins and minerals to the food of the sheep and cows etc than just ordinary grass. Dandelion and plantain were two of them. Aloha
Another name for bindweed in my neck of the woods is Devil's Weed. I have heard that it reduces the yield of a wheat field by half. I wonder if this is an exaggeration, but in a world where people can't make bread because they can't afford the flour, a plant that takes over a field of wheat is not charming, even if it is "native."
