Post your prettiest weed

[Cindy Adair]

I had one of these for years in a pot in Virginia Beach that I carefully tended to and gave space in my greenhouse. I knew it would probably never bloom but I'd seen photos in my books and wanted one anyway.

Now my husband machetes them down right and left and they come back stronger when we next visit Puerto Rico. He has declared war on them but I think he will lose. The photo is of one he had just toppled still in flower.

Somehow someone in Virginia left our small one in a pot out when it turned cold a couple of years ago and it died. My husband says it was me, but I'm not so sure. Pretty suspicious to me.

So what's your prettiest weed?

[dan.vagnoni]

I'd get booted if i did that

[Gonzer]

Dude! Gnarly! I've been waiting, like, years for a post like this.

Just gimme a few minutes....righteous!

[BS Man about Palms]

Weeds? someone rang??

[Moose]

Weeds? someone rang??

How many species you up to now?

[Gonzer]

^{I heard National Geograph's gonna do a special on Bill's place. There's so much O2 hovering above his yard that the greenhouse effect is not found in his part of O'side}

[realarch]

Dang Bill, still making me laugh.

[Moose]

Moose Land Weeds

[ariscott]

my weeds...

[Moose]

more Moose Land weeds ...

[Laisla87]

My prettiest weed is Hypoestes phyllostachya, the Pink Polka-Dot Plant - it grows everywhere! Here it is growing in a crack in concrete between the front wall of my house and the footpath:

[tjwalters]

These are generally considered weeds here, but I'm growing one in the front yard. It's in full bloom for about 6 full weeks - smells great and is stunningly beautiful.

Albizia julibrissin:

[Moose]

Weeds? someone rang??

Awaiting your photographic contribution

[dimitris]

I wish my weeds be as beautiful as yours , Moose !

Edited May 10, 2013 by dimitris

[GREENHAND]

These are generally considered weeds here, but I'm growing one in the front yard. It's in full bloom for about 6 full weeks - smells great and is stunningly beautiful.

Albizia julibrissin:

Down here inTexas we call them Mimosa trees thes are common here in north texas.

[tjwalters]

Down here inTexas we call them Mimosa trees thes are common here in north texas.

Yep...mimosa here, too.

[Brian Bruning]

I have the korean form "E H Wilson" that I'll plant at my sister's in Rochester Hills MI. It is hardy to zone 5 but she's in 6. It has bluer leaves and a deeper pink blossom. No disease there as it is super rare as yet. I want her to remove both Norway Maples. They are declared weeds, have superficial roots from hell, make very deep shade and seed all over the place.

[edric]

The first three photos are of Solanum americanum ( American Nightshade) yes it's deadly, but only if you eat the unripe berries or the leaves, I eat 30 or so black ones a day, the animals aren't so brave, all the more for me, they're great! in the second photo you can see the flowers if you look real close, they're about 3 or 4 mm across. The second plant is Bidens alba (shepherd's needles), in other contries it is used (the roots and leaves) for as many as forty cures, I haven't utilized this plant yet, Ed

[_Keith]

These are generally considered weeds here, but I'm growing one in the front yard. It's in full bloom for about 6 full weeks - smells great and is stunningly beautiful.

Albizia julibrissin:

I love my Mimosas

[edric]

This bloomed this morning, it's got to be my prettiest weed, and my oldest one, dug it out of a girlfriend's yard in Ormond Beach, in the middle of the lawn, at some apartments, in 1997, had it in a pot since then, Mimosa pudica (Touch Sensitive Plant), if you touch the leaves, they close up, Ed

[Shirleypalmpaws]

The very prettiest weed growing in our backyard garden is what I *think* is commonly called a giant leather fern. It volunteered in an empty clay pot, back around 2005 or 6. Eventually, it broke the pot, ate it for lunch, and kept growing to now about 8 feet in height..., and I keep the spread trimmed up. It is wrapped at it's base with a ten-foot soaker hose that's connected to our underground irrigation system. You can see part of the soaker toward the bottom of the photo. I don't actually know for sure what kind of fern it is....just guessing. I think it's super pretty...and hope to keep it happy.

[Gbarce]

Some of you have a funny idea of what's considered a weed

[Tampa Scott]

Some of you have a funny idea of what's considered a weed

Agree, but then a weed is any plant growing where it is not wanted.