What interesting plants I discovered at my dacha

In the spring, I decided to create a small, narrow bed of wild and garden plants that somehow miraculously found their way into our garden.

I placed it along the chain-link fence. Anything you don't plant in that spot grows poorly. Peas rot, cucumbers don't bear fruit, even sunflowers grow low and have small sunflowers. I also planted flowers there, nasturtiums, and morning glory. They quickly twined around the fence with long, powerful stems. The stems had large leaves, but no flowers. And I wanted a riot of blooms.

To prevent the land from becoming empty, I decided to transplant there plants that were growing in inappropriate places at the dacha.

Tansy

Last summer, I transplanted two tansy bushes there. They came from a neighbor's plot and quickly grew under the apple tree.

Tansy is a medicinal plant with bright green, dissected leaves. It blooms with yellow, button-shaped flowers and is quite decorative.

Aconite

This spring, I added aconite to the tansy; it also somehow found its way into our garden. Aconite resembles delphinium—its purple leaves and flowers are similar.

Aconite or aconite is a poisonous plant and also medicinal.

Goutweed

Also, a goutweed with variegated leaves crawled over our neighbor's fence and began to take over the area under the honeysuckle. I dug it up and moved it to a narrow bed.

Goutweed is a very weedy plant; it has spread from ours to other neighbors and is growing even in thickets of everlasting grass.

Yarrow

Last year, I discovered yarrow bushes with pink flowers near my strawberry patch. I replanted one and left the other in the same spot.

Another neighbor of ours had a large bush of pink yarrow growing there. I didn't even know such a beautiful yarrow existed.

Vera wanted to share this flower with me, but we decided to leave it for the spring. And in the fall, our beloved neighbor passed away. And then, some time later, this flower appeared on our property. Perhaps the seeds were carried by the wind, but I call this flower Vera's gift.

I really like pink yarrow; it has large flower heads with small, bright pink flowers. I wonder if pink yarrow is a medicinal plant. I'll have to look it up online.

A small bush of white yarrow has also grown on the so-called lawn. I plan to transplant it to the pink one. It's a useful medicinal plant.

You need to collect and dry the flowers and leaves from it.

Veronica

A low-growing speedwell grew in a thicket of stone rose (sedum). How did its seeds get into the hole of the stone flower?

At my old dacha, I had a low-growing veronica growing right next to the stone flower. I moved some of the stone roses to my current dacha, but the veronica stayed at the old one. And now it's sprouted, but it's impossible for the seeds to survive in the ground for so long.

I transplanted Veronica to a narrow bed, otherwise it was choking out my roses. But for some reason, its leaves have turned blue; it's probably lacking some minerals.

I need to add some ash under the bush. Or maybe it's just cold. It's just gotten cold here, with only 8 degrees Celsius at night and only 18 degrees Celsius during the day. Heavy rain, thunderstorms, and cold weather are forecast all week. And this is in the middle of summer!

I also planted perennial speedwell grown from seeds.

The pink one didn't sprout. I transplanted the blue one into the flower bed, and some of the seedlings into a narrow bed.

When the veronica began to bloom, I was greatly disappointed. Instead of the large, beautiful, spike-shaped inflorescences depicted on the seed packet, I found something nondescript and frail. It reminded me of the weedy veronica that grows in vacant lots.

Fireweed (or Ivan-tea)

Another find: fireweed, or Ivan-tea. I really like this plant.

In the summer, driving past rose fields, I always admire the beauty of the vast stands of fireweed. It makes me want to stop and dig up a few bushes of fireweed so I can have such a beautiful flower.

Last year, my wish came true: I found a fireweed sprout near my doorstep. This year, it's grown well, become a beautiful bush, and needs to be replanted.

We will repair the flooring at the threshold (boards need to be replaced there) and I will replant it.

Fireweed is a medicinal plant and very beautiful. You can make tea from the leaves and flowers. I picked the flowers and leaves from the bush and dried them. We'll have tea.

Forget-me-not

And another find: a low-growing forget-me-not suddenly blossomed in the flowerbed in the spring.

I can't even guess where it came from—birds carried it in, or the wind, or the seeds carried in with other flowers? I'm also planning to transplant it into the narrow flowerbed near the chain-link fence.

Another wish of mine: I want to have meadowsweet in my garden!