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Funny, I think they're really cool looking.
They are unique but they are old thistles.
The petals at the base are super tough and the whole thing is prickly. I mean yeah it's all perspectives but I'll take a soft flower any day.
I also love the flowers on thistles.
LOL that checks out.
But, It sounds like you don't have a neighbors yard growing full of them spreading everywhere.
I used to have them in my own yard. My newer place doesn't have any and I wish I did!
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They really didn't spread much.
(☞ ಠ_ಠ)☞ Sure.
But maybe keep your "non-spreading" thistle to yourself if you can.
If you think I'm crazy, you should know that some people even make tea out of thistle.
And dandelion. That's mostly from them being everywhere and easy to grow. And hard to do anything else with.
Humans would do anything for extra calories or nutrients once upon a time.
A plants only a weed if you decide it. If you’ve got a good lawn and almost any kind of mulch, doesn’t matter much what your neighbors doing.
The city stopped spraying for broadleaf unless the field is covered by more than 60% or something, the median beside my house is littered with them, but my front and backyard maybe gets 2 a week to pluck.
Not true for tight small city yards.
I would need a layer of mulch deeper than any of my in ground plants could handle.
I have exactly that, a 1” layer of straw mulch protected my raised garden beds. You can also use biodegradable “plastic” mulch too.
I don't have raised beds
You don’t need raised beds to mulch them?
But then the mulch won't stop the weeds unless I do it deep enough to hurt my plants. I don't understand why you are so adamant that works for you with a completely different setup is so important for me to do.
Wait how is my yard dry and dusty and also full of weeds?