We had some sun showers today but it was otherwise bright and sunny- perfect for some work, and for taking stock of how much the weeds have been growing.
But that’s not such a bad thing, even though I will be mowing tomorrow.
See those little flowers, the purple and the white? They’re all over the garden.
There are those awful oxalis of course, but also those little blue flowers that look like forget-me-nots speckled throughout the garden.
My favorite of the flowering weeds are these red guys. They’re in front of my back beds and while I’ll be mowing the others, I’m not going to pull these. The bees will thank me I’m sure. See that’s the thing about these native weeds, they feed the native bees! So while I mow and keep things level when I can, I don’t tear these guys out by the root.
Of course, there’s also the edible weeds!
See those round weeds? That’s miner’s lettuce! Supposedly a favorite of the miner 49ers during the gold rush, it’s a native Californian plant that I used to eat on hikes when I was younger and backpacked. I fully plan to snack on these tomorrow when I mow everything else! And hey maybe they’ll grow back!
Then I can eat more miner’s lettuce!
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I really like miner’s lettuce.
The Neanderthal Gardens 
Are the blue flowers creeping speedwell? It showed up here suddenly just last year. Seriously, we never saw it here before, but now it is everywhere, in every lawn! No one knows how it did that.
Once again your identification powers astound me- it does appear to be creeping speedwell! I wonder how it jumped all the fences because it’s quite everywhere.
That’s what I mean! It is as if it is conquering the World! No one knows how it did that. I do not know if it is creeping speedwell. That is just a guess. It could be another type.