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Guy Babin: If wildflowers would be like civilized flora 'Now consider the weed. . . Perhaps the blooms of weeds should be renamed something other than flower as they serve only to entrance and dupe the unsuspecting lover of nature. - GUY BABIN Click on headline for complete commentary By Guy Babin If only wildflowers would behave like civilized flora. Wildflowers have a distinct identity problem that's "rooted"; most often deeply and intrusively in the origins of their taxonomy. "Weed" is most likely on a list of politically incorrect monikers these days, but dangit, that's what they are! There are lots of things people profess to find charming and cute that are really a nuisance and visually downright homely and common. Take the duckling syndrome for one example. Also consider human newborns - honestly, until they fill out and loose the wrinkled purple look, are all far from cute no matter what Mam-maw says. An English Bull dog has never been lovely. The AMC Pacer was one of the most homely cars ever designed no matter what spring flower color painted. Now consider the weed. Perhaps the blooms of weeds should be renamed something other than flower as they serve only to entrance and dupe the unsuspecting lover of nature. A true flower has no hidden agenda, only pure loveliness. Alas the blooms of weeds are replete with deceit no matter their cuteness. The sole purpose of a weed bloom is to replicate the host until they literally snuff out the lives of beneficial flora by slow strangulation. Now that's not so cute is it! Let's be quite candid with each other here folks. At great risk, I venture to proclaim that there's virtually nobody that loves the foliage of a weed. Weeds have their place I guess; in ditches, in the medians of our interstates, along wild natural meadows adjacent to woodlands; and evidently, in at least some of our yards--but I'll bet a nickel to their most staunch supporters that they are NEVER welcome in your manicured lawn! As a keeper of grazing livestock, those weeds with "pretty" blooms are the bane of my rolling sward even if deceitfully named after a Queen. Flea bane, tick clover, thistle, iron weed and yes chigger weed, all look like a roach on a wedding cake in my fields. They somehow look better along the byways and in YOUR yard. - Guy Babin Gradyville, Paradise USA This story was posted on 2015-07-09 12:31:10
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