Blue Spiderwort~Wild is Beautiful
Submitted by mawnature on Tue, 03/11/2008 - 20:52
Everyone has seen Blue Spiderwort growing along the roadside, or in Meadows. It is also known as Day Flower, and Widow's Tears. It's hardy in Zone 8, although Dave's info lists zone 9a - 11. Some call it invasive, but mine has resided quietly without spreading, at the base of a Pine tree.
__________________
n/a
Spiderwort
Maw,
I am in zone 7 and it is a perennial here as well. You can see it in the ditches along the roadside as well here. I have some of the wild and the tame. And they aren't invasive here either.
Melissa
Every act of kindness moves to a larger one till friendships bloom to show what little deeds have done.
***June Masters Bacher***
n/a
Weeds or Flowers
There are a few differences in weeds and flowers. Some weeds grow proudly in many a lady's wildflower garden. If the plant is noxious, invasive, ugly, and competes with plants we know are flowers, then it is a weed. If the plant is pleasant, pretty, sweet, and non-invasive, we call it a flower. My blue spiderwort has not spread at all, but it can, as you can see where it has naturalized on the roadsides. Some other weed/flowers I grow are: Wild Phlox, Purple Coneflower, Spiderwort, Obedient Plant, Butterfly Weed, Oxalis, Passiflora, Scarlet Sage, and Artemesia.
maw
Annette Shelton/ mawnature/ maw
n/a
Weed or flower?
A Weed is a flower in the wrong place ~ by Ian Emberson
A weed is a flower in the wrong place,
a flower is a weed in the right place,
if you were a weed in the right place
you would be a flower;
but seeing as you're a weed in the wrong place
you're only a weed –
its high time someone pulled you out.
I always think of this poem when digging out dandelions & thistle. LOL!
DizzyD %-}
Lavender Poppy
Spiderwort
So pretty
Bad memories
When we bought this house last Feb we had no sod at all. The back yard was full or this stuff. I had no idea it was considered a "flower". Every time I see this stuff I cringe because I spent 2 days pulling it up before we could put good soil and sod in the backyard. It was invasive here for sure.
There is another "weed" that was growing back there that has little lavender flowers that I saw being sold at Walmart yesterday for $3.98 a pot and I could not do anything but chuckle to myself.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes on Him will not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16
n/a