If you have any doubts, or are simply curious about plants, landscaping, and other issues, drop us a line at asktpg@theporchgardener.com.

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For example, after planting the ginger flower that replaced my diseased rosebush, I realized “something” sprouting next to it and I didn’t know what it was.

I asked Gemini and it told me the ginger was already spreading, which was very unlikely. Then I asked Google Lens, usually an interesting, free way to identify plants with your phone.

After a while, I discovered that it was a butterfly bush seed — I do have a tall butterfly bush in a pot on the porch, where each flower produces millions of small pods containing seeds — that apparently crossed the walkway and established itself in the ground, where I’m now monitoring it carefully to see what really comes out of it.

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