I feel like a fool. My wife and I have always weedwhacked this area on the side of our house. A little laziness and it turns out we have aster and goldenrod here. 🤦
by TheRemonst3r
I feel like a fool. My wife and I have always weedwhacked this area on the side of our house. A little laziness and it turns out we have aster and goldenrod here. 🤦
by TheRemonst3r
13 Comments
Nice
gotta love free natives!
I know for a fact you aren’t the only one. Lol
I used to pull fleabane, asters, goldenrod and who knows what else because I thought they were weeds.
Let them go to seed and you can have many more free ones next year!
Imagine what your entire yard could be
I told my husband to stop mowing so close to the trees, to let the greenery grow about 5 feet from the wood line. It was asters and goldenrod that grew, so now there’s mass color of blue and yellow.
I used to think evening primrose, fleabane, and asters were weeds until I got behind on weeding and saw them all bloom 😭😭 such beauties
Much of my neighborhood has been going through this shift. Every year we would pull up weeds diligently, and this year have been looking each one up before destroying. Turns out we are a hotbed of snakeroot.
Very pretty way to brighten up that corner, I hope you let them keep growing. Let them go to seed and that whole wall could be covered in beautiful blooms next year.
They do look very weedy until they bloom! It happens
When I moved into my house 5 years ago, I took my time doing anything with the lawn. Turned out we had bunches of Lyre Leaf Sage!! I Expanded the flower beds and now just have paths to mow (occasionally).
Same, out of all the money I’ve spent and hours digging out invasives and digging in natives, the singular biggest impact has been to weed/weedwhack more selectively. The asters and goldenrod this fall are amazing and literally cost less than nothing 🤦🏼♀️
To be fair goldenrod is a tough one to figure out because it blooms later in the season. I took a bunch out not knowing. The bees love it!