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difference between a flower and a weed?

  • 26-05-2017 08:58PM
    #1
    Ultimate Seduction
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    What is a weed is it just a flower we don't like or is it something more scientific


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  • #2
    looksee
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    A weed is a plant in the wrong place.


  • #3
    Ultimate Seduction
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    looksee wrote:
    A weed is a plant in the wrong place.


    As I thought, Just wondering if maybe there was something different in a plant's DNA or something.

    I had these thoughts while looking in to the most amazing field, twas pure yellow, full of buttercups. Beautiful I thought


  • #4
    Day Lewin
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    No, flower or weed, it's just a descriptor of whether a plant is wanted or unwanted.
    Plenty of plants are valued in one place, a weed in another.
    Often refers to a plant which grows so vigorously that it makes itself unwelcome.


  • #5
    flutered
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    a weed usually has a sour smell


  • #6
    DANNY2014
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    I was always told
    "every weeds a flower and every flower a weed"


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  • #7
    magicbastarder
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    flutered wrote: »
    a weed usually has a sour smell
    examples?
    i think most people's idea of a weed would be 'what grows in my lawn against my wishes'.


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    flutered wrote: »
    a weed usually has a sour smell

    So do many cultivated 'flowers' and many 'weeds' are pleasantly fragrant.


    My grandfather was a gardener in a large estate and he always said a weed was a flower in the wrong place.


  • #9
    RebelButtMunch
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    Have a read on r vs k selection

    http://agron-www.agron.iastate.edu/~weeds/AG517/Content/lifehistory/competition/selectionforces.html#r%20and%20K%20selection


  • #10
    kylith
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    A rose is a weed in a cornfield


  • #11
    magicbastarder
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    RebelButtMunch wrote: »
    Have a read on r vs k selection

    http://agron-www.agron.iastate.edu/~weeds/AG517/Content/lifehistory/competition/selectionforces.html#r%20and%20K%20selection
    or more (not necessarily scientific) reading:

    https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/oct/10/weeds-richard-mabey-review


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  • #12
    Speedsie
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    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    The difference between a flower and a weed?
    Location.


  • #13
    mayo.mick
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    In one of our tidy towns flowerbeds earlier this year, wasn't sure if this was a weed or not, so I left it. Now, I'd have called it a weed before it flowered, thankfully I left it :D

    Buttercups I think?

    [IMG][/img]buttercups_zpsm4jobklq.jpg

    Swinford Weather



  • #14
    my3cents
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    I always remember visiting the Chelsea Physic Garden where they grow nettles in one of the flower beds and do a great job of supporting the nettles just like you would any other herbaceous boarder plant.


  • #15
    feargale
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    You might address an old flame as "me ould flower." Think of the reaction if you said "me ould weed."
    Does that answer OP's question?


  • #16
    DANNY2014
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    feargale wrote: »
    You might address an old flame as "me ould flower." Think of the reaction if you said "me ould weed."
    Does that answer OP's question?

    Sometimes "me ould weed" would be the correct terminology for such old flames...


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