It's summer and the sprayers are out again. Every year it's the same thing. People see lovely new growth and decide that the best thing to do with it is to spray it with weedkiller. It's a strange reaction because the weedkilled area looks terrible for months, and then a selection of the most aggressive weeds comes along when growth remumes again. There is no reasonable argument for it, yet for some strange reason it appears to be part of 'looking after one's property'. It's expensive, ugly, dangerous to your health, poisonous to animals, soil, water insects, labour intensive....