The H.C. term to use in Humboldt County for the green carpet surrounding your home. Shunned by horticultural elitists, probably because they are cheap, easy to grow and do not bloom in trendy hues of purple or lavender. Annuals that reseed prolifically, also shunned by gardening sophisticates. The horticulturally correct method whereby you use heaps of manures, truckloads of compost, gallons of soaps and loads of other heavy, natural materials to grow food and flowers. Also produces an organic sore back.
Chiropractors favor the organic approach.
Flowering plants that are supposed to return bigger and better each spring, the most prolific being dandelions and bindweed. An overly popular common name tacked on to many plants, such as Queen Anne's lace, Queen of the Meadow, Queen of the Prairie, Queen's flower, Queensland nut, Queen's tears, Queen's wreath and Queen Victoria Arborvitae. Also, a very wealthy woman with a nice garden who never has to pull weeds. Some gardeners spend lots of money to put them in a garden to landscape, and then spend lots of money to haul them out so they can rototill. The wide variety of leafy plants in your garden that feeds slugs, snails and deer.