Volunteers - image intensive!

[patandchickens]

Oh, I'd love perennial flax as a weed! Unfortunately they don't seem to like me, I've tried....

Probably you water your garden. I mostly don't. They seem to like that.


Pat, waiting to see if the carrot and bok choy baited live trap works (I flushed the darn rabbit in the bushes while setting it! Cheeky thing.)

 

[Buff Shallots]

My gosh, you all have more volunteers than an Army cookie-tasting contest!

My only volunteers are tomato plants from tomatos that fell at the end of the fall season. And one time a peach pit from the compost pile turned into quite the cute little tree.

 

[Catalina]

Lots of volunteers in my garden too - tulips, crocuses, allium, monarda, aquilegia, catmint, strawberries (like a ground cover!), poppies (3 million!), sedum.

And the bad ones - thistles, quack grass,

 

[simple life]

Lets see what I can remember and as far as I know they are suppose to be annuals.
I have sedum as well and I have seen it listed as an annual and a perrenial.
hollyhocks
poppies ( a couple of varieties)
verbascum ( it grows like a foot a day!)
lily of the valley
beebalm
salvia
coreopsis
bachelor buttons
asters
sweet william
violets

 

[Greensage45]

I love the volunteers. Each year is a different picture. I was unfortunate that my "flying" Golden Dutch bantams ate every shirley poppy they could find; so this year it is almost bare in my eyes.

Here is 2009 (front door; I have two front doors LOL)

Here is 2008 (almost the same angle. Note the Red Shirley Poppies)

And here is one from 2003 (what a change... I see Hollyhocks)

Too fun, ... my front is an area that I never have to turn or supplement. It is the hardest pan/clay junk soil imaginable.

Ron

 

[Catalina]

Greensage45 - Wow! Wow! That is sooooo pretty!

 

[obsessed]

I don't have any volunteers except for the grass in my veggie garden and some wild blackberries that I am refusing to weeds. oh and there is the Kudzu.... So maybe I do.

 

[897tgigvib]

Rosalind, sounds like you could open a nursery with all your volunteers and feral plants!

Or add new meaning to the phrase "yard sale"