Opium poppies pop up in my garden, unbidden. There are not many… well not enough for anyone to make a crop of the seeds anyway, nor to extract anything else from them….but they are rather beautiful in their papery fragility and they come up in serendipitous positions, along with the unexpected self seeded fennel, Aquilegia and foxgloves. There are of course other less welcome self seeded plants… but judicious weeding could sort them out – one day.
Now I’m off to trim the hedge. I may be gone sometime.
Boadicea's Chariot 
It’s dark now, can’t cut hedges any more until the morning!
Thank God for the volunteers!
Volunteers?
CO, Pseu: My late wife always favored the “Volunteers”, plants, especially flowers that grow unbidden in unexpected places, she always valued them more highly than the cultivated mob.
I’ve never heard that expression used in that way before 🙂
I have been editing the volunteers this evening, after finishing the yew hedge. It’s only when you look closely that you realise how many weeds have sprung up among the rest. …