Not counting the feral cherry tomatoes, I've found lobelia popping up everywhere, even though it's been years since I had any. The oddest thing I've discovered is a daylily of a variety that I've never had; I noticed the leaves coming up last year and didn't bother to pull them out as weeds because of my habit of forgetting that I'd planted something...but the daylilies that I purposely grow are yellow, where this is one of those white with purple dots at the throat that you find in shopping center landscaping. Ironically, I had collected some seeds of this variety last year, but they are still sitting in an envelope on my dresser. o_O

Lots of vinca which I relocate when they get big enough. Many, many pumpkin plants from the Halloween pumpkins buried in the compost pile. Two were allowed to live. CA poppies, of course. Volunteer tomatoes, one allowed to live.

We won't discuss the shamrock thingies and the violets.

Don't you love free plants?

Lots of wild flowers this year. Isn't mother nature fascinating?

Close by are several fields where wildflowers grow. It is interesting to note some will skip a year while others will skip a different year. This year we have poppies and lupine but no evening primrose. Al

I've got one baby palm, one baby holly, and one baby Camellia, all growing in the wrong spots! I forgot the baby grapevine! Plan to pot them up today, keep them in pots till we get our new property.

A baby camellia!? How 'bout that! Must have started from a seed? I hope they all survive the transplant.

My garden is full of native seedlings, almost impossible to get rid of. Native grape will come up in the middle of of a shrub, and all I can do is prune it out as low down as possible. My favorite is the one in the middle of Berberis, those inch long thorns are tough to deal with. Al

I am excited about that little camellia, and it's below a crazy blooming pink one. I read that when a seedling blooms, it could end up any color but the mom's color, and I would love a surprise! All I have are wine grapes (no natives), so this baby has to be some blend of Cabernet, Tempranillo, Touriga National, or could be something else thrown into that heritage! Love surprises!
Suzi

Oh, I love volunteers. The best ones for me I don't even have to work for, they pop up in my nursery pots and strawberry pots...linaria purpurea in its purple and pink forms. echium / Pride of Madeiras, verbascum chaixii album, Sweet Annie, Ambrosia / chenopodium, Canary Pines, of course feverfew, Apple scented geraniums, wild grapes, yes. I prowl the property looking for seedlings of toyon to be moved to better locations. I'm sure that to most people these are the ones they refer to in a negative fashion when saying, "Oh, they reseed...." I just think of them as 'enthusiastic'....lol..