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Flowers seem to pop up all over Pennsylvania. Why can't they pop up in my garden? Through research, I have learned that wildflowers flourish because they are in an ideal location, and if I can recreate these conditions successfully, flowers will thrive in my gar ....

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.... Native plants "without assistance from a gardener in the area where they originated. Although all native plants are wild, not all wildflowers are natives" (Loewer 6). Where did the non-native flowers come from and how did they get here? "Probably the largest number of plants accidentally introduced in this country arrived in ships' ballast. Because the early merchant ships that sailed from Europe were empty of goods on the trip over, their hulls were loaded with dirt so that they would float properly. When they arrived in America, the dirt was removed and left onshore. The seeds it contained then began to spread, bloom, produce more s ....