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Thursday 19 March 2009

Seeing Heaven in Wild Flowers - Part II

There are plenty of garden origins plants which had gone wild and naturalise in the open space where the dog usually do his run. This is quite some steps away from the cultivated areas of the garden, but I don't think they sprout out from the dog poo because pooch don't eat seed heads or bulbs. Besides, I usually picked up after the dog.

Most of those naturalised in the weedy wild areas started their life neck in neck with each others like the picture above. A few years later the same plants can be found growing everywhere in the garden and within a certain perimeters outside the garden. I can only think of a few reasons why they decided to leave the colony;

1-They don't like their lifestyle crammed by the others.
2-They are in similar case like "the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow"
3-They don't like their neighbouring plants
4-They think the grass is greener on the other side
5-They're trying to tell me that I should consider buying my neighbour's land
6-ha ha ha

Here are a few that escaped the garden and decided to go their own way,

Anemone blanda, left the garden bed, probably travel underground and prefering the border of the grassy field areasViola Palustris - prefers the dry impoverished bank instead of the rich flower bedViola Odorata - decided to do the same with similar preference as V.PalustrisMuscari - popped up by themselves in the middle of the garden path
crocus - a solo act popping up in a middle of nowhere and everywherePrimroses - had spread out like wild fire
This one even decided to take up cracks (of walls and pavement)
Snowdrops - multiply like rabbits. I don't have the heart to trample on them because they look really pretty during their rather short blooming period.

Really wild flowers Seeing Heaven in Wild Flowers

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