... but when you're backing out of the driveway and out of the car window you see a cloud of pink and then purple, it's hard not to be impressed.

Now I'm glad I let the asters grow!

Beautiful

what a show!

Lovely color spot:)

i don't care if there weeds or not. i love them. Gorgeous. :D

PHlox one of my favorites..

I have a bunch of phlox too... just not along the driveway!

These are just asters. The pink flew in from the back yard, blown from a plant that I had purchased. The purple is the native wild New England Aster.

Now the two have hybridized and I have several shades that are in between!

Phlox are easy to grow and really give a great show of color.

Those are beautiful! How lucky you are to have such brilliant colors to admire every day. Thanks for sharing.

Yes. And I wish mine didn't get spider mites! Anybody know how to deal with those? I notice that they are also afflicting all the ground ivy in my lawn. Not that I care about the ground ivy, just that if I spray the phlox and don't spray the lawn, the mites will probably just move on into the phlox again. :thumbdown:

And I should also be thankful to the deer that munched these asters down at just the right time. Otherwise they would be a foot taller and falling over sideways. It turned out to have been very effective pruning and timed better than I could have done.

However...

I will NOT thank the deer for pruning my shrubs last winter!

Beautiful.

All wildflowers were weeds at one time ... most are beautiful!

Pretty flowers. Nature always show her beauty.

I let the little white flowers with the yellow centers grow too. I know they are weeds but they look like tiny daisies. Pretty even if they are weeds!

I am trying to get up the courage to dig some up by the side of the road. Maybe I should think of it as "rescue" The bad thing is that I have a vanity plate on my car and people would know who it is

Mim

beautiful

Weeds are undiscovered flowers.....Those are gorgeous. Lucky you.

very pretty, love some of those "weeds"

THERE ARE NOT WEEDS JUST WILD FLOWERS.

I would love to have some seeds from those weeds! :)

Weeds are in the definition, a weed is something that grows where it isn't wanted. Orchids in a pineapple field are weeds. These aren't weeds as long as you love them.

Very Very Pretty!!!!!!

Really beautiful weeds. We have some 3ft high weeds in our backyard garden that are beginning to flower and hope they are as beautiful as yours.

Very pretty

Beautiful.

We always controlled spider mites with dawn dish soap. Squirting a bit in a fertilizer sprayer, finish filling it with water, then water the plants with it.

The definition of a weed is a plant growing where it is not wanted... if you want it there, it's a wildflower!! I have some stunning flowering plants that are most definitely weeds. I plant one, and suddenly they are everywhere! I love asters.

I love wild flowers. We had ageratum in the yard in GA I loved it my daughter thought is was just a weed. I loved the wild morning glories in the field across the street growing up the corn stalks, and we did have some phlox and wild daisies too.

I don't think there is a garden in the world that can compete with looking out over a meadow filled with wild flowers in the spring.

Hooray for Mother Nature!

My gosh...those are beautiful!

What you call weeds, my brother calls "volunteers." They volunteered to grow where ever.

Those are very lovely weeds!!! :wink:

They are about the only color left here in Northern NY till the leaves start turning...any minute now!

Lovely picture, thanks for posting and giving me a smile on the dismal rainy day.

Wow! Gorgeous! Nature often has beautiful surprises in landscape design. ;) Seeing pink wild asters is quite a treat in our part of western NY, how wonderful that your purples had hybridized seedlings!

One of those plants that aren't much to look at individually but gorgeous in a mass planting.

Mother Nature does it best.

how pretty such a color show!

Those are gorgeous!