Medicinal plants
Dandelions, according to their botanical description, are common weeds. I have a huge number of them in my backyard. They grow both in dry soil and practically in water. Many people try to get rid of them, but in reality, it's not worth it. Dandelions are used medicinally for humans, dogs, and so on. 
Aloe arborescens (also known as century plant) is a popular houseplant. While this plant once grew in every home and apartment, gardeners now prefer to grow Aloe Vera with its thick, large leaves. Aloe arborescens is an evergreen succulent that grows as a shrub with straight trunks, with numerous lateral shoots forming at the base. Its leaves are alternate, greenish-blue, linear-lanceolate... 
Sea buckthorn is one of the most common plants in Siberia. Here, sea buckthorn thickets can be found everywhere: around the city, in vacant lots, along roadsides. Every dacha has this healthy berry growing. Residents grow large-fruited varieties. This undemanding, frost-resistant plant belongs to the Elaeagnaceae family. It spreads very quickly via basal suckers. At our dacha, sea buckthorn sprouts everywhere... 
We have a red viburnum growing at our dacha—an ordinary-looking berry, bitter in taste, but very healthy. We have two bushes. One is ancient, pruned many times, and covered in stumps. But it still blooms and bears fruit every spring. The other bush is young and strong, self-seeding near the fence. In the spring, it was covered in snow-white flowers, and in the fall... 
Creeping thyme grows at our dacha. It's a small, low-growing perennial subshrub with thin, twining branches, small, rounded, elongated leaves, and tiny, bright pink-purple flowers. This plant is commonly known as thyme or Bogorodskaya grass. It's very fragrant, aromatic, and a good honey plant. Bees don't fly away from it during flowering. Creeping thyme belongs to the Lamiaceae family. There are many different varieties... 
I never imagined that yarrow, which grows like a weed here, could be so versatile. It's used in so many ways—for internal health, as a gardening aid, for animal health, and for cosmetic purposes. In short, I now harvest it in large quantities. And so it began... 
I never thought a medicinal herb could be such a great addition to a garden. I saw yarrow growing at a friend's dacha—I went to ask her about zucchini and saw that she had a lot of this herb in her yard, especially in the garden. It turns out yarrow is a great soil loosener. This is due to its powerful and extensive root system... 
Many city residents are accustomed to buying medicinal compounds in pharmacies or markets, as they say, from old ladies, naively believing the product will be environmentally friendly. In fact, that's how it should be in pharmacies, but the market and the vastness of the internet... it's highly questionable. Personally, since I have the opportunity to collect the ingredients myself, that's what I do. I can't say it's particularly... 
Good afternoon! Today I'll tell you about some garden weeds that get in the way, persistently growing in the beds, and need to be weeded, but it turns out many of them can be useful. Let's take a closer look at some of them. Quinoa. Oh, that ubiquitous quinoa, one of the first to sprout in the beds and familiar to every gardener. If you don't pull it out in time, then...