FREE garden plants

Hi Reader!

Who doesn’t love free plants?

This weekend I skipped the long Mother’s Day lines for the free flower giveaway and instead wandered around my own garden realizing just how many “free” plants I already had growing right outside my door.

Tiny chamomile popping up in random pots, volunteer tomatoes finding their own place in the garden, herbs returning for another year, and giant perennials ready to be divided into multiple plants.

And honestly? It made me realize how generous gardens become over time.

In today’s podcast episode, we’re talking about all the ways your garden can start giving back to you year after year through self-seeding flowers and herbs, volunteer vegetables, and perennials you can split again and again.

We’re chatting about:

• Self-seeding plants like calendula, dill, chamomile, zinnias, cosmos, and borage
• Perennials that multiply over time like hostas, chives, oregano, yarrow, Shasta daisies, bee balm, and black-eyed Susans
• Volunteer plants like tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, pumpkins, and surprise sunflowers from birdseed
• Why leaving some plants standing through winter can help them reseed naturally
• How dividing plants can make landscaping and gardening feel so much more affordable

One thing I’ve really noticed lately is how different gardening feels a few years in.

When I first started, I felt like I needed to buy everything all at once. Every empty spot felt urgent. Every garden bed looked sparse. But now, just a few seasons later, I’m digging up extra plants to fill new spaces, sharing divisions with friends, and watching flowers and herbs come back on their own without me doing much at all.

There’s something really encouraging about realizing your garden doesn’t have to be fully finished right away.

Gardens grow slowly… until suddenly they don’t.

And if your garden still feels small or unfinished right now, I hope this episode reminds you that a little patience really does go a long way. A few plants today can turn into a beautiful, overflowing garden before you know it.

Listen here:

Happy gardening,
Brittany