Please Don’t Pull the Goldenrod!

A host plant for pollinators and beneficial herb for the urinary tract, goldenrod is emphatically not the cause of your seasonal allergies, so leave it be.

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5 Weeds to Leave in Your Garden

Good weeds. These two words together create what might seem to be the single biggest oxymoron in the gardening world.

Spare the Goldenrod, Spoil the Garden

Goldenrod was once undeservedly shunned from gardens. This sunny North American native plant was (and sadly still is) considered a weed in much of the country and is often blamed for causing hay fever, though its pollen is too heavy to be carried on the wind.