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Mamapolo2016 Most of the flowering plants in my little garden are wild ones that sort of wandered in and decided to stay!
One of my favourites is Ivy-leaved Toadflax, growing in the weathered joints of the garden's old brick walls.
I planted an ornamental ivy and a fire-thorn against my boundary wall and to keep these two cultivars company, a dog-rose.
The wild rose had developed as a runner sprouting where it would have been a nuisance, so I carefully dug it up and took it home. Its parent shrub was among other wild bushes and trees, and welcome there.
The trio form a small, very spiny thicket sheltered from the prevailing winds, and dense enough for a pair of blackbirds to have nested in it earlier this year. While the rose and firethorn blossoms attract lots of insects, and in Autumn the blackbirds feasted on the firethorn berries.
