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Since I was going to be gone so much in the Spring and early summer I opted not to plant flowers in my window boxes this year.  I just wouldn't be around to take good care of them and I hated the idea of buying all those bedding plants and then having them dry up and die.  One day I noticed several little familiar looking seedlings coming up, so I pulled the weeds around them and let these grow.  Some of the snapdragons I planted last year had placed seeds in the soil and they came up on their own.  We've had a pretty mild Spring and Summer so far with a fair amount of rain.  I don't expect that will last, but I'm pretty happy to have the flowers that are there, even though it's not as many as I usually have.  Good ole Mother Nature.