How Volunteer Flowers Come to Your Garden

Garden flowers appear in your garden- that you never planted. Where do they come from? You may think a stranger snuck in and planted them: when you weren't looking! Actually they are known as volunteer flowers. Volunteer garden flowers are the best kind of flowers. Volunteer garden flowers come in to join your garden on a breezy day. A seed carried in by the wind-from a neighboring flower garden. Seeds drop in from an over head flying birds beak.

Volunteer garden flowers are a gift.

You may think your in total control of your flower garden. Nothing could be further from truth. Nature has it's own plan-even for your private garden, no matter it's size. Your flower garden will naturalize as it grows. Each growing season brings new growth. Seems simple enough. You buy some plants, get some as gifts or in trades, or plant some seeds. Always careful to label each for ease in identification and care purpose. The volunteer flowers are always lurking within.

A stroll through my own flower garden often spurs gasps of, " what is that?" As I spy a new flower I know I didn't plant. It just popped up- like a gift. A truly volunteer flower with it's ability to make one smile. Looking around to share this remarkable event with others. Wanting to yell out, " hey, look, a flower is growing in my flower garden". Just looses something in translation-if you don't understand the power of nature.

Season after season your flower garden will be blessed with volunteer flowers. It just never seems to get old. Each a miraculous wonder. Some volunteer flowers come back year after year. There are those that come once-never to return again. Volunteer garden flowers are a mystery. Flower gardening is never a sure thing. Garden flowers may bloom, and sometimes die before their time. Volunteer flowers will come and go as they please. With or without a formal invitation from you, the gardener.

When I discover volunteer flowers in my garden- I let them be. I don't try to move them to a site I feel they should be. After all, if they grew there, it must be right: it must be fate. If I don't recognize it at first glance I try to identify it by it's leaf clusters. I'll search the Internet or my flower gardening books. I can usually identify it through those resources. You can ask gardening friends to help you identify volunteer garden flowers. Your local gardening center should also be helpful.

Sit back, relax. Enjoy all the flowers in your garden. Rather if you picked them or they picked you. Volunteer garden flowers need love too.