I started out writing this months edition of my gardening blog by taking a camera down to the vegetable gardens here at Rose Villa, thinking to brag a bit on the produce being produced by the gardeners. Instead I found myself noticing the weeds growing along the edges of the gardens, in empty plots and in the gardens themselves. Everything from a common dandelion to weeds that, much to my shame, I have no idea their names. 
In many cases it's only when you start looking up close that the real beauty of these plants starts to present itself.
Sometimes it seems that we gardeners make a huge mistake when we classify plants into useful, profitable and 'good' plants
and those that have no useful or profitable quality's, the 'bad' plants. The weeds.
and those that have no useful or profitable quality's, the 'bad' plants. The weeds. I'm sure that most of us have heard what the definition of a weed is; a plant in the wrong place. 
But what appears to us as the wrong place is only a human definition. To a plant any place it can find to live, put down roots and reproduce is the right place. 
But what appears to us as the wrong place is only a human definition. To a plant any place it can find to live, put down roots and reproduce is the right place. 
What
beautiful picture a single dandelion makes when it's growing in a rock wall on the edge of a garden. As a gardener I could spend my entire life trying to get a 'flower' to grow in a rock wall and look as beautiful as this totally randomly placed 'weed'.
What is not apparent as I look at the photos I've included here are the number and variety of honey bees, wasps and bumble bees that were working the garden area. I was walking through knee high weeds with hundreds of flying insects buzzing around my legs. It was a minor miracle that I didn't get one or two of them up my shorts. 
But they all seemed to be more interested in collecting nectar from the flowers of any plant that happened to be in front of them.
But they all seemed to be more interested in collecting nectar from the flowers of any plant that happened to be in front of them.
In the picture of the corn tassels its' a bit hard to see, but there were dozens of bees in this little corn patch, all of them busily working over the tassels. I could get really close to all the flying insects before they took any notice at all that I was around.
In fact, if you look closely at the photo of the green leaves you will see that it was much more dangerous for the bees then for me. That's a common garden spider wrapping up a freshly caught bee that wondered into his web.
This seems to be turning into a photo op kind of blog today so I will end with a last few photos of beautiful plants that just happened to be in the wrong place so are considered weeds.
