Thank you!
>> Nothing like surprise flowers
I agree. Once I tried to fill in an odd, dry spot with some old "seed mix", and surprising things kept appearing at odd intervals.
One weird, spiky "thing" appeared that was almost scary, then it turned into pretty Dianthus barbatus (Sweet William to some and, I guess, Stinking Willy to others).
I even got a fair amount of seed from them!
If the topic is "May Flowers", only the first photo is relevant. One bed got very weedy until I dug out the whole thiing this spring and SCREENED out the weed roots. I was "pretty sure" these weren't weeds and put them back into the bed. I'm glad I did because they recently turned into spiky, scary things, so they must be re-seeding Dianthus.
i just looked them up again: biennial? Hunnh? Says who? I guess no one told mine they should wait a year. Maybe it makes a difference that I'm right on the edge of too-warm-to-be-hardy.
Or maybe they spend one year lookiing like weeds to me, and next year they b loom?
I really SHOULD weed perennial and re-seeding beds more carefully!