My needs for the weeds
I miss all the weeds. Maybe I’m old-fashioned. I have needs for the weeds. I think the word weeds incorrectly has a negative sound that I would like to get rid off. Weeds are plants as all the others, an amazing creation of mother nature as usual.
Especially two of them are my favorite ones. They grow in agricultural land in Southern Sweden mostly. People grow them in their gardens too, but not as much as other garden plants.
Corn Poppy (Papaver rhoeas), has a history in Sweden since back in the Medevial time and I really would love to keep it that way. They are decreasing since that kind of agricultural fields are decreasing in Sweden.
Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) with it’s bright blue color is my other favorite and preferable together with the red Poppy - it’s such a perfect match. I haven’t seen a Cornflower for a long time now, they are in real danger because of agricultural intensification and the heavy over use of Herbicides.
They made our countryside look so beautiful and made me associate it with the genuine Swedish.
It’s a great sorrow to miss such natural beauty.
How is it in your countries…?
