Seeds and birds!

Leava,

I agree---seeds and birds or seeds and wind or seeds and birds and wind combined.

There are a few plants that send out long runners underground and pop up out of the ground far from the mother plant....like wisteria and trumpet creeper vine. Others spread via seed 'deposited' by birds or other wildlife...including mulberry trees and persimmon trees. Many flowers and vines are spread by wind-blown seed or even by seed washed downstream by rainwater. Some plants spread by clumping...like Flowering Currant or Possumhaw Holly.

In the herb family, many herbs reseed quite freely, including lemon balm, borage, catnip, basil, chamomile and chives.

It likely is a coincidence that one honeysuckle died and another sprouted. Lemon balm will reseed and pop up all over the place. I mulch heavily around my lemon balm and normally don't get a lot of reseeded plants, but even with mulch several inches thick, there's always a couple.

It's all normal.

Dawn

The title of the thread was a little spooky...

just needed to add that...(ducking out of thread now...:) )

hmmm i stick with my original mental image of plants holding onto their leaves like full skirts and scooting to a more desireable location...with the help of fairies of course :)