Hi everyone! I’m a gardener in southeastern Ontario, Canada. In 2019, I replaced my lawn with paths and garden beds. I grow perennial flowers, herbs and shrubs, and I have a small patch for vegetables. Over the past few years, I’ve noticed a number of spontaneous plants showing up in my garden, incl…

My pleasure! I continue to pack the front yard with as many semi- and true-natives as possible. (My definition is that true natives would grow wild in this exact spot without humans and semi-natives are regionally/climatologically appropriate.) Backyard is more for growing vegetables and relaxing in…

Thanks for the link! Re: how to spread the word, if you’re on Twitter, Alyssa Harad created a weekly hashtag called (hashtag)FlowerReport. It’s less active now than before Twitter changed hands, but still a nice way to share wildflowers and garden plants each Sunday. The notion of “mess” in a gard…

Yes, I have. Wound up running into trouble this past year with some plant that looks gorgeous–fine white flowers, intricate leaves, blooms for ever, lots of insects…but the most awful grass burs once it withers. Still don’t know what it was but I’m pulling it is it emerges this year. As far as cool…

I don’t know how, it’s just a shaded garden in very seemingly normal suburbs. There’s quite a few native plants there (some of which I planted and some were planted by the previous owners, who I am told had brought some of those plants as well as soil from their childhood farm in the Driftless Area.…

[image] This is the star volunteer of my front yard - Chamisa aka rubber rabbitbrush

Am I the only one who watches post apocalypse shows and thinks that the overgrown and weed filled towns look amazing to explore? Maybe it’s because gardens tend to be so boring around here and municipal planting tends to be very tame.

No rubber rabbits volunteering here. But my tapestry hedge planted in 2015 [A tapestry hedge January] Has acquired four volunteers making up more than half of the biomass. One volunteered in place, and 3 volunteers were moved out from the inner garden. November 2022 [G tapestry hedge trimmed ba…

Didn’t hear back or get arrested (yet?)

[image] williampaulwhite17: plant that looks gorgeous–fine white flowers, intricate leaves, blooms for ever, lots of insects…but the most awful grass burs once it withers. Did it look like this?

Spontaneous wild plants in gardens

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vreinkymov February 21, 2023, 8:10pm 15

So I take it from this photo that nothing bad became of: City Ordinances and HOA rules?

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