Wild flowers are nature's anarchists. Yet today even weeds must conform | Simon Jenkins

Plants have evolved their own class system. Those of the countryside are treasured, and those 'in the wrong place' villified

We all find solace in flowers. I go when times are hard to the wild dune church of Aberdaron in north Wales, where is pinned up (or was) a list of flowers that battle against the wind in the graveyard outside. Here is an uplifting array of thrift, vetch, yarrow, mayweed, lady's bedstraw, rest harrow, bird's foot trefoil and dozens more that toss and chatter like...