And then there are volunteers. Cosmos shows up every year much to our delight.
Only one packet of seeds was ever planted and that was years ago. In the beginning there was more variety in the colors that bloomed, now the majority of blossoms are this lovely fuchsia.
Do you have volunteers in your garden?
Mornin' Darla, Yes, we have forget-me-nots and money plant that are volunteers and come back (against all odds and in spite of our lackadaisical gardening habits) year after year. The forget-me-nots came from a pot of some other plant that came from Phil's Mom's garden. So since she's now gone, they are truly forget-her-nots. It makes me smile each year when they bloom.
ReplyDeleteI have had cherry tomato volunteers and sunflower volunteers in the past. I love cosmos, they are so perky!
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ReplyDeleteDo violets count? ;) But no, no volunteers here except for "weeds".
ReplyDeleteSeems most things in my garden are volunteers. I had ONE coneflower and now I have many each year. Yes, it's great when they come back year after year, showing they are capable of surviving even the most difficult of situations. I need to find a package of cosmos and plant them next year. Yours are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteI love cosmos, especially those pink ones. How lovely to have them regenerate all by themselves. We find they struggle in our climate, one season and they disappear. However, we get many volunteers, most of them unwelcome, although I like that the nasturtiums seem to be taking care of themselves these days :)
ReplyDeleteWe normally have lots of volunteer cosmos, but for some reason this year there are only a couple. We do, however, have billions of volunteer rudbeckias in all the colors they come in- I had the dark burgundy ones in one place, and the yellow in another, and they have crossed and now I have those and everything in between, odd bicolors. Oh, and a couple of calendulas, and some bachelor's buttons, came up. I love volunteers.
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