Seeds

Stinky Bob (a.k.a., Herb-Robert, Geranium robertianum), Shotweed (Cardamine oligosperma), Oxalis (over 550 species), many of them here, Italian Arum (the sap is an irritant, the leaves, fruits, and tubers are poisonous, even fatal), Cleavers (catchweed, Galium aparine), Butterfly Bush (Buddleja davidii), and grasses—volunteer and would thrive among our flowers. I believe seeds are born by birds or wind, carried over from our neighbors’ by ants. Maybe their seeds persist in the ground from plants that escaped being pulled. They do well. They seem to be saying, “We belong here.”