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@artistsgarden@mastodonapp.uk Nice post. I recognise a fair few of them from my own unkempt garden - lovely! Are those canterbury bells in there? The key though to me is dealing with the thug 'weeds'. For us that is a strange combo: couch grass - absolutely. I wonder how much of my time I spend pulling out couch grass roots? I have a little bind wind - and need to stop it becoming a lot so every strand gets dug out and the roots I can get to as well. And then echiums seed themselves everywhere and would take over without control. So I find it's less about organising and more about keeping some plants in check so others which aren't so dominant have a chance to show. I remember a chat with an environmental scientist a couple of years back who offered: in the UK, if there were no intervention, how long would it be before the country was covered in buddleia and bramble? Well - fair point! Untidy? Great! Mono-weed - not great. #gardening