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I am weeding the cracks between the paving slabs. To make this dull task more interesting, I am doing a species count.

Things Weeded

Irritating invasive grasses (various)
buttercups (too invasive)
plantain
bloody wood avens which simply cannot take a sodding hint apparently
dandelion
goosegrass
dock (common I think)
broadleaved sodding willowherb, which is by way of being my Gardening Nemesis drattit.
shepherds purse, which despite the little white flowers, i cannot love for some reason
Foxgloves (lovely, but really too big)
A bloody bramble, damnit
Ragwort. Out damned wort!
cow parsley
A male fern (I think: it was very small. But they grow far too big).

Things Not Weeded

wild strawberries
cowslips
hardy geraniums (variations around the theme)
bugle
primroses
hedge bedstraw
red campion
ladies mantle ( I do wonder if I should have had these up as they get quite big - but their little round leaves are so charming)
some sort of speedwell, not yet in flower
A very nice blue creeping campanula (not in flower yet)
wood sorrel
marjoram
cat's ears
ivy-leaved toadflax
hartstongue fern
A very small thing that I think will be an early purple orchid when it grows up
some unexpected bluebells
lawn daisies
herb robert
pearlwort

... And now it is starting to get a little dark and chilly, so with my tub-trug half-filled with slain enemies, I shall declare a truce.