Weed or Treasure?

I love these flowers. If you read in a gardening magazine about a flower that bloomed with little or no care from July through October, attracted at least six different kinds of showy butterflies, had huge blossoms a foot across that kept for up to two weeks as a cut flower, what would you pay to have it in your garden?

Here people cut it and call it a weed. To me it’s a treasure.

I wonder how many of us treat our treasures like weeds simply because they come too easily to us?

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