Self Seed

Aromatic and graceful, umbellifers will self-seed in such a way that you never know where they'll pop up next ❋ Unknown (2010)

Also applaud your suggestion of drumstick alliums, which do self-seed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sorrel is reportedly easy to grow, with a tendancy to self-seed that can be troublesome in some gardens. ❋ Kalyn Denny (2006)

Although they're annuals, they'll come back because they self-seed prolifically. ❋ Pat (2005)

Self-seeding is very climate-dependent, and some plants that self-seed freely in the South refuse to seed at all in the North. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The presence of very active plants, those that self-seed and colonise, suggests the garden will continue to change into the future as it has in the past. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Plants that readily self-seed, such as foxgloves, will not pass on the condition to a next generation. ❋ Unknown (2011)

This is because they either spread vegetatively, or self-seed profusely, or occasionally both. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They will self-seed everywhere and have an irrepressible gaiety and lightness, both in their leaves and in their horned flowers carried on long stems. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A propensity to self-seed and hybridise complicates matters. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The tendency to self-seed needn't be a problem in the right position. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Although I've often considered northern sea oats the bane of my existence in perennial beds where they self-seed mercilessly, one expert puts sea oats in her ❋ Unknown (2010)

Does not self-seed like certain other species impatiens. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the best loved is the old-fashioned Johnny-jump-up (V. tricolor), a viola with dark purple upper petals and lower petals in shades of lavender-blue, yellow or white, often with dark purple markings, Plants are short-lived but readily self-seed, providing pleasurable discoveries of new plants in unexpected places each year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

IU professor Moya Andrews, Australian by birth, has no trouble remembering mimosas in her homeland, pointing out they grow in any frost-free area of the world and are considered weeds in South Africa where they self-seed easily after bush fires. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Better yet: they self-seed throughout the garden, giving the flower bed a random, natural look. ❋ Unknown (2009)