Mystery Plants....

Ok gardeners out there....as you may or may not know, instead of getting our gazillion boxes unpacked, we have been working on the outside of the house. We have a river stone raised planter that runs the entire front of our house. It looks as though it has not been worked in quite a while. So while working, we encountered two inhabitants that have sprouted....obviously from days gone by. Well, we have no idea what they might be. The first is obviously some sort of bulb type of flowering plant....that we both can agree on. John said that he thinks they look like something my grandma had planted on the back of her garage.....the only thing I can think of is gladiolas....but I don't think they look quite right...Any ideas??

The next plant, we can't agree whether it is a weed or not. I say it has got to go, but John being the true gardener has other ideas. So for right now it is intermingled with our plants.

Also while we were finishing up with the planting this morning, we thought we needed some more plants, so we ran down the road to the grocery store...they have a small greenhouse set up in their parking lot. While we were there, we of course came home with more than we had planned to....we got two tomato plants (only two b/c we're not 100% sure that they will do too well as our property is mostly shaded). And we also walked away with some onions. We'll just have to wait and see.....I'm not holding my breath, though! Gary (my co-worker) seems to think that we are not going to have anything left....he says the deer are going to come and have themselves a feast!!