f you visited the Chelsea Flower Show or watched any of its TV coverage, the fact that several of its show gardens featured weeds won’t have escaped you. My garden is intervention, and if we want to grow cultivated plants, getting on top of dominant, invasive ‘weeds’ necessary. That said, attitudes are changing – note the apostrophes around the word weeds! After all, they are plants too, just growing somewhere inconvenient for us gardeners and given the label of weed as a result. Many of them provide food for wildlife and are often inextricably linked to the survival of certain species.
