Volunteer Seedlings

This is part 3 of 4 of The Turn of a Season photoessay.

Under the oak tree they volunteer to grow and the mother plant looks even better.

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Polka Dot plant start gaining its color back

after looking so drearily dull

in the hottest days of summer.

They all have been moved

from the other side of oak tree

to save them from burning.

There is even a seedling now coming up

not too far from the mother plant!

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Periwinkle blooming.

This is a volunteer from last year's seeds.

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I thought I have lost this Oxalis many times,

but despite its sad look it's been surviving

not only from weather

but also critters' footsteps

for a couple of years here.

(Purchased from Bruce Miller).