Life in the weed garden

Do not get me wrong.  Weeds were essential to the forest ecosystem. They had to exist and a world without weeds would just be silly indeed.  To call them a weed may seem derogatory but they were all shapes and sizes, colors, textures and they all had the Tree Gods blessings if they really wanted to be blessed.  They made the lives of the Trees very smart and the Trees owed much of their prosperity to the presence of weeds.  The weeds could be azalea bush like weeds or they could be towering ferns.  But they always were decorative and the forest prospered.