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David Hare-Scott[_2_] · 04-04-2010, 04:48 AM posted to rec.gardens

wrote:
"David Hare-Scott" writes:

ncstockguy wrote:
Thanks for the info. Lawn weed killer does them in. I'll try
transplanting a couple to the woods, otherwise, they are outta
there. Pretty but not in the grass.

What would be so terrible about having them in the lawn? Put another
way why must a lawn be nothing but grass and if rumours are to be
believed just one cultivar of grass in many cases?

This again?

Isn't weed control one of the basics of gardening?

Yes but the definition of "weed" is not universal over time or place. My
point is many people have taken in this vision of what a lawn must be like
and that they must have a lawn. I am not trying to tell them what to do but
get them to think if in their circumstances there is a good reason for this
attitude.

Maybe this should be rec.let.the.yard.run.wild?

Violets look like cr*p in the lawn.

If that is your judgement by all means root them out. Others may not think
so.

David