"Renee Shepherd" is a gardening entrepreneur and writer known for Heirloom plant/heirloom seed advocacy and kitchen garden/garden-based cooking using home-grown herbs. Better Homes and Gardens (magazine)/Better Homes and Gardens called her "a groundbreaking gardener", and Businessweek a "pioneering innovator" who helped popularize specialty vegetables and cottage garden flowers for home gardening and gourmet restaurants.

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Self-sown flowers provide a lot of serendipity, which is one of the reasons people garden. When they come up, it's a delight.

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Sometimes a self-sown flower will surprise me. I may have thought I didn't want anything there, but when they start to bloom, I'm enchanted.

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Oftentimes, despite the fact that you don't think two colors go together - when they sow themselves, they look fabulous.

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