Weed Quotes

"A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.” Unknown Author

"A weed is but an unloved flower.” Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"A weed is but a plant in the wrong place. Weeds are a human invention not natures." Neil Smart

"A weed called by any other name would not grow so fast" Neil Smart

"What is a weed? I have heard it said that there are sixty definitions. For me, a weed is a plant out of place." Donald Culross Peattie

"But make no mistake: the weeds will win; nature bats last." Robert M. Pyle

"They know, they just know where to grow, how to dupe you, and how to camouflage themselves among the perfectly respectable plants, they just know, and therefore, I've concluded weeds must have brains." Dianne Benson

"Roses are red, Violets are blue; But they don't get around, Like the dandelions do." Slim Acres

"Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste." William Shakespeare

"Man is the only critter who feels the need to label things as flowers or weeds." Author Unknown

"Even the richest soil, if left uncultivated will produce the rankest weeds." Leonardo da Vinci

"A man's nature runs either to herbs, or to weeds; therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other." Francis Bacon

"He who hunts for flowers will find flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds." Henry Ward Beecher

"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Identifying Weeds

Australian Swamp StonecropBuddleiaCreeping Water PrimroseDandelionDevils AppleDwarf KnotweedFloating Pennywort

Giant HogweedGiant KnotweedGoldenrodHimalayan BalsamHorse TailHybrid KnotweedJapanese KnotweedParrots Feather

RagwortRhododendronRosebay WillowherbTree of HeavenWater Fern