Weeds as a moisture retentive living groundcover
A few years ago I stopped weeding the above corner of our garden and then, when I saw the results, quickly stopped weeding the rest of the garden as well.
I do still rip out or chop back occasional stems of nettles, geranium, sticky weed and bramble where they start to swamp smaller plants. Otherwise, I don’t weed around plants or disturb the soil unless I am planting something new. Over time the main garden plants and wildflowers are balancing out (to confuse matters I think of wildflowers as garden plants, but for the sake of explanation I’ll separate them here!)
Benefits of not weeding around ornamental plants
The benefits of leaving wildflowers that you don’t like around the plants that you do are: