Yay For Self Seeders

There are some plants that come back year after year, putting on a colourful show with absolutely no help from me. These are the self seeders that pop up around the garden, taking over any bare spot they can find. They are all easily removed if need be.

Forget Me Nots in blue and white,

Geranium Palmatum,

this Verbascum whose full name I don't know, which also emits a sweet perfume if the weather is warm. 

The unopened flowers look like little tight parcels.

Nasturtuims. Cocky loves their flowers, so I throw a few in his cage and  he chews off the end with the sweet nectar inside. 

I am still yet to try them in a salad.

And I was surprised when Cerinthe Major decided to spread itself around. It makes an attractive plant even before the flowers appear with pretty mottled blue green foliage. I often see our local Eastern Spinebill feeding in the flowers too.