VIDEO (WEEK 7) Peter Dowdall explains how to get a handle on weeds

Peter Dowdall explains why some plants are classified as weeds in one culture but as flowers in another.

What is a weed? A tough question to give a definitive answer to, considering the definition can vary from garden to garden and certainly from country to country.

Hardy fuchsias and crocosmia have colonised many of the hedgerows in the south west to the extent that we take them for granted and sometimes don’t even notice them anymore. However, travel north and they speak of our fuchsias with jealousy.