Specialty Gardening: show your volunteers, 1 by chris_h

chris_h wrote:
Look what showed up in my garden. Last fall I noticed a rosette of leaves near some foxglove but the leaves were just a little different. I almost pulled it out thinking it was a weed (it looked a lot like a weed I have elsewhere in the yard) but decided to wait to see for sure what it was. Thank goodness! Look at what I got.

It's a verbascum, I believe. I know I planted one of these several years ago but it didn't do very well and did not come back the following year. I cannot remember it's name and I have found surprisingly little information about verbascums online except that they are shortlived. Could this have come from seed that lay dormant in my garden for 3 or 4 years?

I guess I'll let it go to seed and hope for the best.

How about your "volunteers"?