How to love your weeds

There is no shame in having a weedy garden and we should rise above ‘untidiness’, says Fiann Ó Nualláin.

You will often hear it quoted: “What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered”.

But do we really hear what Ralph Waldo Emerson was saying when he uttered it? That weeds just might be useful. That weeds just might be good. That weeds might just be loveable.