With forest gardening, I love the balance between the planned and the unplanned.
As for unplanned, I think of the first time that I ever even knew about hog plums was when a bush spontaneously grew up close to the driveway and every time I passed it, I was captivated by the wonderful aroma of its blossoms. I never planted that bush there. It took some investigating to even figure out what it was. Now, I have several hog plum bushes, each of which grew up spontaneously, probably from seed spread by the gopher tortoises which love my property.
