More Accidentals

There are plants that I have tried getting to grow since I started gardening......and then there are the ones that just grow themselves......and don't stop!!!


One such hardy fellow is the little  mini mums  that came from my Mom-in-law's garden several years ago.

The single plant spread itself into several in the shade garden last year, but this year, they were everywhere!

I found little sprigs of these all over - spread far and wide throughout the shade garden, in the wildflower border, even all the way in a pot up on the 2nd story deck and another in the front of the house! 



Little creatures must have been quite busy moving seeds to and fro last year!

Taking over the shade garden (naturally I forgot to take pictures when they were all in bloom; they are simply lovely!) The crazy thing is that they came up everywhere BUT the original place I planted them in front of the post!!

 They are the cutest little flowers! And since I had to pull entire plants of them out of the unwanted places (one of the very rare times this year that I went outside to tame a tiny portion of the chaos), I ended up with a very ample bouquet to put in a vase and bring cheer to the kitchen for days!

My other useful accidental is jalapeños! 

Pretty sure I planted a regular green pepper and a hot pepper from seedlings I'd grown ... pretty sure.

Which means at least two of these growing in the foreground (and definitely the large one in the pot) are accidentals! 
I'll have to figure out a good use for all of the ripe peppers!

Oh, compost, you silly supplier, you!

Freshly weeded...trust me, it did NOT look like this before yesterday when I finally did some weeding for like the 4th time this year! 

This year more than any other I have neglected my gardens because of our house renovations and so it continues to amaze me that they just keep chugging along and even do above and beyond (and sometimes TOO beyond!) surprises for me!