Walking back toward our compost bin this morning, I spotted something on the side of the boards.
Talk about determination to seek out the sunshine to grow and flourish! You just can't keep these little Johnny-Jump-Ups down.
Methinks there is a lesson here to be learned.
Funny....I tried to get them started here but failed! It seems certain thinks just don't like my location.
ReplyDeleteThey look cute hanging there.
Glenda - Yep, we all have certain things we can't grow that others can and things we can grow that others can't. (Did I say that right?)
DeleteWe have a sunflower growing all twisty and turny through sticks on our burn pile!
ReplyDeleteAngela - Now that's a determined sunflower! And I've got sunflowers I planted in good soil free of weeds three times (!) this year . . . that didn't germinate!
DeleteAww, that's sweet. I am always amazed (and a little perturbed) by the plants that will grow from a tiny crack. I have hollyhocks that will take hold and send roots to China in between the paving bricks in the front walk. -Jenn
ReplyDeleteJenn - Send me your hollyhocks growing between your paving bricks! I have trouble getting them to grow for me even when I plant them in lovely soil!
DeleteLove those Johnny Jump Ups and yours have mastered the art of jumping up anywhere haven't they? They are also real pretty on a log of fresh Chevre
ReplyDeleteGoatldi - I don't know about the leaves, but the blossoms are edible! Obviously, the medium in the compost bin is suitable for them.
DeleteI love Johnny Jump-Ups. They grow profusely throughout the garden and yard. Even if nothing else does...
ReplyDeleteSusan - This spring they were almost like a weed growing in all my raised beds and in the field garden. I couldn't bear to kill them so transplanted most of them.
DeleteJohnny Jump-Ups are the most optimistic flower I know. And they thrive as weeds because I can't look in their cheery little faces and uproot them
ReplyDeleteSmartAlex - They darn near ruined my purple poppy bed this year because they came up so thickly in there, the poppies were nearly crowded out!
DeleteI just love Johnny Jump Ups! We have a few here and there around the yard...I tell my husband when he is cutting our little patch of grass to NOT cut down those little lovely flowers. :)
ReplyDeleteMrsDM - Ha! My husband feels the same way about cutting down dandelions because they are about the first flower our honey bees can work!
DeleteThat looks like me when the sun finally shows up! :) My head sticks out of the porch lol
ReplyDeleteRain - Oh, what a good picture you've painted in my mind!
DeleteWe always have a few of those in our sidewalk cracks. I have pictures of one somewhere. Such a sweet little flower that seems to love growing and blooming in the most challenging spaces.
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