Soooo... I was on the Brooklyn Bridge, fooling around (as I shouldn't) on my dumb phone and the diary for today (listen I
was stopped in traffic!) when just like the wrong snip of a pruning shear?
There went the diary. Snipped and floating somewhere in cyberspace...
EEEK!!
So this is a quick substitute.
Disasters. Garden disasters. Got any?? I have plenty, but always think of them as learning moments... some more lasting than others!
Like one year, some time back, I planted Rue. Why? I can't remember... but I had it sprouting up all over the place for years and years... finally what took it out was digging a big hole and putting in a pond.
Another is lemon balm... I love to use this for cooking and teas, and still do! But it has spread from backyard to front... I know mint is a bane to many a gardener here, but lemon balm is like 100 times worst!
But then there are other plants that have brought me happiness endlessly- like foxglove...
This has continued to self-seed now for nearly a decade. I moved some plants to the back and have gotten seedlings pop up from them as well.
Editor's note: THIS is foxglove, somehow I posted the wrong pix above, which is lupine!
The morning glories, which I never can resist allowing to grow in some spots, which of course means I simply get hundreds of seedlings in the following years.
Cleome is another that can self-seed quite rampantly, but I can never resist just letting it grow from wherever it sprouts.
And now, my latest self-seeder, and even in winter, is the Siberian Wallflower.
I bought this one early last spring, it grew, then self-seeded into another pot. And I also noticed seedlings sprouting up in other spots around where the original pot of wallflowers grew and bloomed. Right now, I have two plants growing at the base of the front stoop, with tiny buds clenched tight against the cold, but the plant itself still growing.
I guess to some extent what I see as bounty may be seen as another's bane? I really like the plants that keep themselves going by self-seeding. I just needed to work through things NOT to plant!
Got plans? Things growing? Dreams of Spring?