Topic: Gift from a bird- yellow barberry

[GrannieAnnie]

This yellow barberry was a volunteer and the color was such a shockingly bright one it lit up the garden and was allowed to stay.
Have you fallen in love with any unexpected freebies or combinations?

[PurpleHeather]

Free is best. My favourite price

Looks well, but then it 'chose' to be there.

I have a friend who never weeds until she can identify the plant so that she does not miss a freebee.

[GrannieAnnie]

I'm still waiting to see if this freebie is a poppy. A number of these sprouted in Feb by themselves and have been receiving tender loving care since I've never successfully grown poppies from seed. Tell me it isn't a weed :-\

[honeybee]

Grannie Annie those poppies look very similar to some freebies that I accrued too in recent years, they had gorgeous round lilac flowers and they still spring up now.

Lets wait and see if yours are the same as mine ;D

Thank goodness for our little feathered friends and little gusts of wind.

[manicscousers]

they look like our poppies, yellow and orange  ;D

[GrannieAnnie]

We have tornado warnings today!  I'll be very disappointed if these get whipped away to Kansas!

[star]

Oh dear, baton down the hatches. Hope you dont get a direct hit :-*

[GrannieAnnie]

The tornado didn't materialize as usual, just lots of rain. The slugs are happy which is the important thing ::)

[honeybee]

Have those poppies opened yet Grannie Annie?
Am itching to hear what colour they were  :)

[GrannieAnnie]

I was so eager to get back home before dark last night (after a visit to Chincoteque, Virginia where the wild ponies run free in the marshes) to see if the poppies had bloomed. They're so tall and slender I was afraid they'd get knocked over by an animal or storm but they were standing. Will add photos  today to this post. Red poppies and

a peach-colored poppy of a different sort, I think it is some type of Oriental poppy

[honeybee]

Hope you had a fab time, I know how you feel though, just got back from a week away myself and found myself wondering about your poppies ;D And there they are, such a beautiful colour, thanks for posting, I would never have forgiven you if you hadn't  :D

[GrannieAnnie]

Hope you had a fab time, I know how you feel though, just got back from a week away myself and found myself wondering about your poppies ;D And there they are, such a beautiful colour, thanks for posting, I would never have forgiven you if you hadn't  :D

Heeheee. Wait til my husband hears this- it isn't enough for me to be worrying about my plants on vacation- now I've got you worrying over them! :D
I'll have to take a picture of the pink ones that ended up growing near some blue salvia- such a pretty combo I'll try to repeat it next year. don't you luv surprises?