What's growing in your garden?

We have a woods and a city park right behind our house which can be a real blessing. Sometimes I get interesting volunteer plants growing in my garden. One of them, at first looked like a rhubarb, so I didn't pull it. Well, I got busy with other tasks and soon got used to the plant being there as it grew and grew and didn't pay any attention to it. My dad stopped by one day and said "That's a fine Burrdock you've grown there son!" "Burrdock?" I inquired. "Yes, you know, that's where cockelburs come from." Oh. Well, if you don't know about cockelburs, they are seed pods that travel by attaching themselves to people and animals by little hooks kind of like Velcro, only insidious and nasty. (Cockelburs inspired Velcro, but that's a different story.) I dug that Burrdock out in an adventure perhaps worthy of a Steinbeck or Melville telling, or maybe I'm being dramatic. . .

Have any unidentified or ignore noxious weeds in your "garden?"

Shaun

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