Please Say That These Are Flowers And Not Weeds...

Good Morning You Grubby-Handed Lot I have quite a number of these scattered around the edges of my garden and they are so pretty. Please tell me that it is not a weed and its ok to have it. Thankyou Kindly...

 

A flower - Aquilegia (AKA Columbine & Granny's Bonnet)

 

Thankyou Scrungee I'm well happy now

 

But what's a weed anyway? They grow wild in the hedgerows here (the common deep purple ones) but I can't think of any garden that doesn't have them too - every shade from pale cream through to pinks, lilac, mauve & deep deep purple and such a range of shapes too. Love, love, love them

 

Lucky you. Now you know what they are, you'll check out the range and get involved.
They're easy to propogate and reliably perennial.
Speak to friends that have other varieties and scrounge seeds.

 

I think you're question has been answered already, but here's my two pence worth all the same.

A weed is just a plant growing where you don't want it. If you like it, and are happy with it where it is, then it can't possibly be a weed.

As an example, my dad gets borage in his allotment every year. He sees it as something that takes up valuable veg growing space so its a weed. I see it as a beautiful, low maintenance flower, so I keep asking him to save me some seed, but he keeps forgeting, although I suspect he forgets on purpose so he can pull them out before they produce even more seed to spill all over his veg patch

 

clueless, i too love borage, it lasts ages, has beautiful flowers and attracts bees to my garnden. i started off with only one a couple of years ago, it came in a mixed seed pack my daughter had from b&q we didnt know what it was and at the rate it grew (it was bigger than her at one point)she used to call it monster, since then i look forward to it growing i have dozens of them in my little garden at the mo i did keep seeds to but dont think i need to as it manages to keep itself seeded well enough!
Gill