Comment 24699

By GardenXpressway (anonymous) | Posted June 02, 2008 at 18:11:37

Is Echineacea (purple cone flower) a wild flower, a garden flower(cultived flower) or a weed? I think it's all 3, depending on your taste. It hasn't changed much since weed status..so do people think it should be not allowed in gardens?

All garden flowers, plants & trees began as 'weeds'. Even roses, & tulips. Some have been improved/changed by selective breeding to be more attractive to gardeners.

Lupins, Black-eyed Susans, Oxe Eye Daisys, Fireweed, Wild Asters, many kinds of Golden Rod & many other attractive plants all happily grow in Ontario. The provincial (Wild!) flowers of each province & territory in Canada are beautiful, & all probably could be grown in S. Ontario, depending on selecting soil conditions carefully.

Is the White Trillium a 'weed' too? :-)

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