You can't see my house for weeds but I like some of them better than others. I like Soladago but I'm trying to edit out the tall one that spreads by rhyzomes and keep the S rugosa which forms clumps. I want to get rid of the mugwort as it produces clouds of pollen when it blooms. And I want more echinacea although it's not really native around here. I introduced liatris and orange milkweed by the coneflowers and I can't bring myself to remove fall aster which will soon be blooming. I saw Ironweed blooming beside a mall parking lot and really want that back of the Goldenrod, Some cultivars of weeds are far better behaved, I have a clump of phlox by the Echinacea that is perfect this year. On the other hand, I planted a wild phlox near the woods that is a nightmare--spread twenty feet from a small start and is still spreading, wiping out all in it's path. You can't pull it out, every root grows while I wish I could get cuttings from my more tractable cultivars, Laura and a late white. Idid manage to cross these last year but didn't figure out how to germinate the seeds. Maybe next Spring. On the other hand, sometimes the weeds engulf the daylilies which I also like to cross, and the lilies get lost.-------------------------Weedy
