Self sown sunflowers?
This year, these plants are growing in the exact spot that the sunflowers grew last year.
They are not true to the original and are a completely different color, but the areas where they are growing this year seem to indicate that they are self sown sunflowers, perhaps from hybrid seeds which don't grow true to parent.
Do you think I am correct or is this some type of selective weed that just chose only those two areas of my many garden beds to grow?
No flowers yet, so it's hard to say.
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Vicki K on Jul 30, 2014I;m having the same problem, but mine don't look anything like that. Mine might be weeds! Yours is definitely some kind of desirable? plant, but i cannot help you. It's pretty, though.Helpful Reply
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Jean Whittington on Jul 30, 2014@Carol, those are not sunflowers. Does it have a smell and what is the like?Helpful Reply
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Judy Johnson on Jul 30, 2014Maybe the birds dropped the seeds to those plants while eating the seeds of the sunflowers. The are not sunflowers. Might be some kind of herbs.Helpful Reply
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Rhonda B on Jul 30, 2014It is an edible plant called Shiso aka Perilla frutescens. You might have planted it last year and it self sowed.Helpful Reply
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Carol Speake - The Gardening Cook on Jul 30, 2014If the birds dropped they are exact. Every single place where I planted them have these this year. In the exact spots. Also I did not plant shiso. Let me go look at images of it to see if it looks like mine. No smell.Helpful Reply
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Donna Marie P on Jul 30, 2014Many plants that you never sowed come up .. excuse the ick .. but .. they come from bird droppingsHelpful Reply
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Donna Marie P on Jul 30, 2014Oh I didn't see the bird drop post there .... nevermindHelpful Reply
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