I Want To Break Free

I dedicate that tongue-in-cheek song by Queen to these cheeky volunteer plants.

A Doug Fir seedling making a break for it behind the narrow slits of the willow screen enclosing the shed under the back deck.

 

Pseudotsuga menziesii (syn Abies menziesii) - Douglas Fir

Yellow Corydalis jailed behind a line up of garden tools parked there year-round that I'm too lazy to put away properly in the shed.

Corydalis lutea -  Yellow Corydalis

The ever so clever Lady Fern reaching for freedom from under the back stairs... perplexing me in how da heck it got through the 1cm grid of the hardware cloth (my feeble attempts at keeping critters like raccoons at bay), tacked to the undersides of the back steps.

Athyrium filix-femina - Lady Fern

The Bonny and Clyde of the weed world in my books; Buttercup and Morning Glory bullying its way through the layers of a heavy stack of rusted rebars, 6 inches deep of 3/4 inch clear-crushed gravel, and industrial grade landscape fabric beneath all of that.

Runnunculus acris - Buttercup and Convolvulus arvensis - Morning Glory or Bindweed

I've got to break free
I want to break free yeah

I want, I want, I want, I want to break free

Excerpts from I Want To Break Free by Queen