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Best unexpected self seeder

PoppypussPoppypuss Posts: 143
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This little dicentra has found it’s way into one of the dry stone walls. For the first time this year I’ve also noticed some little seedlings around one of the parent plants. I’ve been trying to multiply these plants through cuttings but chuffed they are now seeding themselves around. Sorry can’t turn the image around?

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  • Fran IOMFran IOM Posts: 2,872

    Looks really nice where it is growing.   :)
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Ooh there's hope for mine then!

    I've had a lot of foxgloves since one appeared a couple of years ago. It was 'probably' the only thing that grew from 30 seed balls.
    Welsh poppies too.
    Still waiting for the astrantias to spread.

    All my weeds do beautifully, without any effort. 😫🤣
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    A couple of years ago a purple honesty plant appeared. I scattered the seeds about and now there are several that should flower this year. 
    Foxgloves have seeded too and Brunnera Jack Frost but they aren't all as silvery on the leaves as the parent plant.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    I have a little gravel area next to my pond, just enough space for one of those little metal tables with two chairs, and over the years I have ‘allowed’ some forget-me-nots and a few Aquilegias to grow. The last two years I realised that by late Spring the whole area is almost all covered with them both. I moved the table and let them be. It’s now a really pretty area that if I had been more ruthless with my weeding, wouldn’t exist. 
    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • PoppypussPoppypuss Posts: 143
    Fran IOM said:

    Looks really nice where it is growing.   :)
    Thanks!
  • PoppypussPoppypuss Posts: 143
    Brunnerra does really well for me too, luckily not as promiscuous as forget me nots!
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    Nigella everywhere. Love them.
  • rowlandscastle444rowlandscastle444 Posts: 2,612
    My hellebores produce lots of seedlings. As do the chives and borage. 
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Lots of self-seeders here! Forget-me-nots, five different kinds of honesty, dark-leaved cow parsley (decendants of Ravenswing), Campanula perscifolia, Linaria purpurea, annual poppies (mostly the single plum-coloured ones), knautia (red and pastels), aquilegia vulgaris, nigella, and probably more that I'm forgetting.
    Dicentra spreads but not far so I always assumed it was the roots not seed. I'll need to keep my eyes peeled for seedlings that I can rescue from the competition from more robust things.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    An elderberry tree and a cherry plum tree both seeded themselves in just the right spots many years ago.  Rosa glauca   and L formosa are very welcome too - but no longer unexpected😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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