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Sun, Jun 3, 12 at 19:07
| This year I got a pleasant surprise -- the purple linaria (toadflax) I got at a plant swap, with no idea what it was, has now seeded itself all around my garden, and its delicate little purple spikes are pushing up through other plants' foliage and blooming, looking extremely nice. It's so easy to pull from any place I don't want it -- but really, there's hardly any place that fits that description.
Any plants that have pleasantly surprised you lately? |
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| I gather a ton of bags leaves along the curbside every fall and spring to use as mulch. I've gotten quite a few nice plants from there, things people I guess no longer wanted and dug up, or sometimes just trimmings that grow for me. Right now, I have a big mystery plant growing in one garden that I'm pretty sure is Rheum palmatum, and it had to come out of the leaves, since I don't have this plant. |
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| Cool, free plants included with your free mulch! We don't live in a place where people bag their leaves, so I don't get them, but I confess when we're driving through a place and I see the bags of leaves I always want to jump out and grab 'em. |
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