There is a ditch behind my house down the hill. We've lived here over 4 years, and every year there is a large pocket of Daffodils that bloom. I've always wondered how probably one daffodil made it down there and survived all of the overgrown weeds, blackberry bushes, vines, etc. I'll have to look for it tomorrow!!! Christy :)

We always used to have a lone red tulip coming out of a pile of leaves in the woods in my backyard. I think we must have raked the bulb with a pile of leaves and never looked back...then somehow he made it under the ground and then somehow made it through a foot of leaves and bloomed. lol!

This is the magic of SEED. Although we most often think of bulbs reproducing from offsets, they also make seed. That seed gets scattered around, and a certain, small, percentage of it lands in congenial conditions and voila!(in a few years) More plants! As to the red tulip, this may have been a lady tulip, one of a very very few tulips that not only survive but thrive in the south.
We were in Gatlinburg two weeks ago, and noticed the pseudonarcissus blooming all in the woods and on banks (as it does here, too). According to the tour guide, the Civilian Conservation Corps in the great depression planted some of these bulbs in Cades Cove and they "escaped" (seeded) into the woods (and ditches). Although we grow plants for their flowers, the plants make flowers solely in order to reproduce. Ever once in awhile, the wildlings remind us that it really isn't all about US! :)

I got a free canna lily last year. It was in the hosta bed and I thought it was a mutated hosta. Posted a pic in the hosta forum and everyone let me know it was a canna lily.

Could have bed a bird "digesting out" its stomach contents or what not.

It is amazing how things just "appear".