Comments on: In praise of volunteers

By: muhammad khabbab

muhammad khabbab — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:10:34 +0000

I love the volunteers. Here some cosmos, dahlias self sow easily. your blog is very attractive and photos are fantastic.

By: Daffodil Planter

Daffodil Planter — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:25:33 +0000

I have lots of volunteer Money Plant biennials. Pretty heart-shaped leaves and lavender flowers. I only pull them if they are right next to a new addition that needs lots of root room. Rose Campion is not a volunteer here–more of a dominatrix.

By: Kat

Kat — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:18:41 +0000

Melanie-Oh, I agree with you on some things. I’m still digging out evening primrose. But I consider those weeds.
Kari- How lucky to have a volunteer Japanese maple. I have seeds that I need to get into the refrigerator soon for some red Japanese maples.
Catherine- Your empathy for those little plants doesn’t surprise me. No wonders you have such a lovely garden.
Stevie-I’m with you. Even in my compost volunteers are fun.
Frances- Thanks for stopping by. I’m not surprised you welcome the little ones into your garden. I’m sure they are perfectly happy they came.

By: Frances

Frances — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:47:12 +0000

Hi Kat, how lucky to have good eatin’ volunteers! Yummm! We do love our volunteers here in TN, we are the volunteer state after all. Nigella, violas, and many wildflowers that we are still learning the proper names of are all most welcome. We only have one unwelcome, crabgrass! All others, come on up! :-)
Frances

By: Stevie

Stevie — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:53:50 +0000

I LOVE my volunteers! I was recently reading Melanie’s wonderful post about composing…but she did day that you should never put veggie seeds in the compose pile. Good advice in general but when I get a surprise squash I’m overjoyed. I give away all sorts of things to the community garden when I find them popping up somewhere I didn’t plant them.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:12:34 +0000

I adore volunteers. Larkspur, poppies, feverfew, hollyhock, catnip, and on and on. It is sad to have to thin them… I feel badly for them and try to transplant as many as possible since they were so faithful and kind enough to come up without encouragement… I want Spring NOW!

By: Kari Lønning

Kari Lønning — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:56:38 +0000

I love the feverfew, euphorbia, scilla and alliums that pop up, and I couldn’t weed out the beautiful, little Japanese maple that just appeared one day. Weeds? no. But, I have started “weeding” out the tiny euonymous sprouts and a few of the perillas though.

By: melanie watts

melanie watts — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:25:48 +0000

I’m all for volunteers, I don’t keep them all I only need a few borage, calendula, poppy plants and definitely no more poplar, birch or willows.