What are you growing that you didn't plant?

Willow herb has appeared everywhere, goodness knows where from, but it’s got to come out. Sadly nothing pretty as some of you have.

We had a large silky oak that the birds planted for us. It grew and grew , flowered every year but it was in the wrong place so, sadly, we had to have it chopped down. Cost us a thousand bucks to remove it.

Apart from the usual unwanted plants and weeds that have crept into my garden, most of which have been mentioned above, I have a nice, healthy-looking peony that appeared from nowhere a couple of years ago ☺

No idea!! We are waiting to see what appears when they flower! Our garden is a mystery!

I have a plant that appears in various pots each year.

I have posted a photo of it here before, and nobody was sure what it is.

It's quite pretty, with red tinged leaves, so I thought I would keep it, but it always dies back suddenly.

As well as the usual woodland edge plants
Teasels, wild garlick, fox and cubs, pennywort, stitchwort
My delight is vervain which I have only recently discovered supposedly has religious and healing powers.
In an old poem vervain is mentioned along with the local hillside. When we moved in there was non but our builder delivered some soil he had dug out for someone’s patio and what should shoot up. Vervain snd it had spread

Miss A fascinated what the plant no one knows have you still got the pic ?

I don't think so, but if I manage to get out and poke around in the pots, I can almost guarantee I will find some more to take a photo or two of.

I find tiny lavender bushes growing in the cracks in paving slabs and on the outside steps. Yesterday I noticed a Lenten rose flowering; it was growing in a crack in the pavement outside.

If I left everything that seeded itself we'd be living in a house in a forest.

Miss A 👍

Last year I had a lovely clump of sunflowers that grew from the bird seed and I'm hoping for the same again this tear, One side of the garden seems to be covered by young foxglove plants that seem to have been seeded from the one plant I had last year.

Giant echium, both on my patio and at my allotment. They self-seed into my tubs and grow to 12 or 15 feet high on virtually no soil. Some people here hatebt

... hate them but I love their height and ability to survive wherever they land. This year one is growing in a six-inch pot next to a lavender plant.

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We have a cotoneaster tree that was probably 'planted' by a bird. It has got big over the years but we have it cut back every so often, the birds love the berries.
Also I have a tree peony? that had appeared quite a few years back, and I ever wondered if it would flower. This morning I went to look at it, and lo and behold, it has buds! Wonderful. If it flowers I will post another picture.
These, last pic, are also back this year.

Violets from next door and primroses, which must have come from some in pots I had about 25 years ago.

Strangely, what I'm certain is going to prove to be a Foxglove. They're very elegant, both the pinky crimson and white ones, but I didn't plant it!

My theory is a stray seed was dropped by a passing bird and it's worked.

I have not long moved and the only plant that seems to be thriving is willow herb, it’s going to take a lot of weeding to get rid of what’s growing already.

Violets and primroses have spread into the lawn. They somehow jumped over our neighbours fence. Little holly trees spring up all over the place. I pot them on and give them away if I can. Orange poppies are flowering. I try to pull the seed pods off but miss some because they get everywhere.

Last year we had hundreds of sycamore seedlings appear in the veg garden, beds and in the lawn. They must have blown in from some distance because there are no sycamore trees nearby.

Every year some beautiful small peach coloured tulips appear and I have no idea where they come from!

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The tree peony flowered this last week. Here she is.

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Just everywhere this year!