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Beauty in the gutter!

madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
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Saw this little Viola flowering away in the gutter.It is amazing to think it was able to seed,germinate,grow and flower with no disturbance for a long time!
Made my day  :)


“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
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  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    Beautiful. But the annoying thing is, when you want things to grow they don't and they tend to seed about in areas you don't want them to seed in.
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    I suppose the plant just knows where it wants to grow!!
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That happens to me with poppies. They pop up next door or out in the street. Maybe that's why they're call poppies.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    What a lovely little plant. A similar thing has happened here with forget-me-nots. I park by a small patch of them at the office and somehow they've travelled the 25 miles back home with me and are growing where I park the car here now
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    I once saw a tomato grow in the gutter near some offices,probably a seed from a sandwich!
    It was there long enough to produce a small tomato!
    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    Now that you say that Madpenguin, I saw tomatoes growing in my local supermarket carpark shrub beds wedged amongst Cotoneasters and Euonymus Fortunei. Sadly they never got to ripen due to the colder autumn months.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    We should make this the official 'plants in odd places thread'. I'd love to see some of the unlikely places things will grow in.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • madpenguinmadpenguin Posts: 2,543
    wild edges said:
    We should make this the official 'plants in odd places thread'. I'd love to see some of the unlikely places things will grow in.
    Here is a Snapdragon on the site of a demolished hotel.


    “Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Great idea @wild edges 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Don't  ask about  the incinerator  lid!
    I wasn't  sure  whether  to put these  in GoS 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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