Gardeners or others - What's the most unusual thing you have growing on your property?

I would love to see your garden! Sounds like my kind of place. Have you ever eaten your nettles? I live in a city where nettles are considered an obnoxious weed. :( I'm a mushroom fan and I have several interesting fungi in my yard, some transplanted, a few came about naturally. Love the bird's nest fungus, too. I have a real appreciation for all the bright little ascomycetes that add color and sparkle to life. I have a couple shittake logs, eight logs that produce oysters and one that gives me a couple nice big Hericium every year, one in the summer and one in September.

Sisyrinchium bellum S. Watson

What is unusual is that most gardeners use weed killer on their lawns and kill these,

I saw this growing in my lawn 40 years ago. I transplanted it to a safe spot and nurtured it until it produced a profusion the prettiest tiny sky blue flowers. The tallest the leaves get is 6" but sometimes the flower spikes reach 8" each one topped by a small blue spot of sky.

I've transplanted these with every move my family has made and they continue to multiply and flourish.

They are cheerful and remind me of the persistence of life under the most difficult of circumstances.

I grow magnificently fragrant tall bearded Iris in almost a rainbow of colors and some rebloomers, one of which looks like a frog, but this little Iris family grass is special. It is amazing how many friends with lush green lawns stoop down to admire and comment on this little prize never realizing that they too could have a sky blue lawn - and with no mowing, no fertilizer except compost, no weed killers,

The value of gardening is sunshine, fresh air, sweet fragrance and the time to see the magnificent display Mother Earth and Father Sky offer us.

I grow 'Chocolate Flowers'. A wild flower from the great plains (though I'm in Maryland). The 1 1/4" yellow flowers, with a brown eye smell just like malty chocolate and perfume the whole yard in the mornings. It's a fun perennial.

I have a ginko tree and scads of black mondo grass - they told us the mondo liked wet shade and was hard to propagate so we put it in dry sunny sandy soil and it blooms every year and produces runners like mad. we started with a sorry collection of 5 or 6 plants (purchased from nurseries and pond supply places with warnings about their picky nature...) and now have maybe 75-100. The trick is well drained, poor soil. The runners are like bamboo, the rhizomes are woody but you can use pruners to separate them. They don't mind being moved around and the roots can be completely bare during transplanting. Treat em rough....they're grass.

Only because it's NOT supposed to winter over here - I have a globe artichoke, that if it comes back this spring, will be 5 years old.

I've grown them as annuals for 20 years, and never had them winter over, despite trying to mulch heavily, etc. Except this one. I'll also let it go to flower, and it's unusual enough (around here), that experienced gardener will not know what it is initially.

I've got a lot of Opuntia (prickly pear) cacti growing. Not many people realise how well they grow in England. Some of them are ten years old and have never been damaged by the weather.

At our old house, clover grew out of the stone wall. We had the most unusual volume of four leaf clovers. Any time at all you could walk over there and find 3 or more. The kids thought we lived in a magical place. Me, I hoped it wasn't build over a chemical landfill.

Western trilliums. Not all that common around here even in the wild. Don't know how they got here, suspect a former owner transplanted them but one has also showed up in a place no one would plant one.

Saibamen

Yucca Plants, Yard long beans, rhubarb and sunflowers