The phrase beauty is in the eye of the beholder is so true with what is around us in nature. What is considered beautiful in the woods is considered a weed when it is found in the yard.For some the perfectly manicured weed free green yard is absolutely beautiful and the only thing that the scatterings of violets and dandelions and wild thyme bring to mind is the need for weedkiller.
While weed killer rarely makes it near our yard, because we are barefoot so much, it doesn't mean that there isn't an occasional lively discussion about loosing total control of the yard. We are talking lawns here, not gardens, as weeding the latter is practical as well as aesthetic.
There are plenty of movie or TV comedy scenes about someone pulling up bunches of flowers when weeding a garden. The confusion reigns, especially before flowers appear and among personal tastes and cultures.
We have had a few "flowers" that are really invasive and even though they are no longer in the garden they are infiltrating the yard and other beds. So have they moved from the flower column to the weed column?
I love the smell of wild thyme as I step over it, I have been mowing around several bunches of wild daisies that have sprouted up around the back yard in sort of a mowing ballet, I gaze at the pretty violets and think, I would leave them alone if it wasn't for the pesky grass that is growing up in the middle and looks shaggy.
So theses are the kinds of ramblings I do when I am mowing the lawn. After it is done the grass is neat, the dandelions cut and from a distance it looks as nice as the neighbor and its done.
4 comments:
The simple answer is to raise the mower so you won't hurt the small violets or may flowers and do exactly what your doing by mowing around the daisy's!! I do the same thing. We have our mower up to 3 inches now. That way we keep the pretty blue flowers, mow the dandilions and keep the daisy's!...debbie
Good idea to use with the violets.
I have been weeding the herb garden all day at Old Sturbridge Village and I have to tell you that many things that we think of as weeds are practical herbs for cooking, dyeing or medicinal use. Our lawn has very little grass in it (lots of crab)but when mowed it looks as nice as the next guys. Beauty can be found in every living thing as you well know. I did enjoy your rumination and found it timely.
I have to say that as we are planning a party in our back yard and I looked more closely at the yard, there wasn't much grass - even crab grass - but its green.
The rest is just as you say, when its cut it looks like all the rest. At least from a distance.
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