Part of the art of being a good professional gardener (is it possible to be a "bad" professional gardener?
Oh, silly me, of course it is, thinking back to some of the terrible Crimes Against Horticulture I have seen, over the years) is to be able to recognise weeds, and the definition of a weed is - I'm sure you've heard this - merely something growing in the "wrong" place. This includes removing perfectly legitimate plants, which might be popping up in unwanted positions.
Here's a good one - recently, I was dead-heading the climbing rose ("Gertrude Jekyll", very popular and rightly so) on the arch, and at the base, I spotted some leaves which didn't quite look right....
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