At my place, nearly all of my attempts to plant wildflower seeds have failed. The simple truth is, Arizona wildflowers are persnickety about where they wish to set up shop. Being planted here is obviously not to their liking. Then came the brittlebush. Shortly after I moved in, I was told that brittlebush just wouldn’t grow in this neighborhood. That really disappointed me, because I really wanted to plant some. A few years ago, I spotted a volunteer seedling in the front yard. A brittlebush! It simply seeded itself! That’s what we call a volunteer plant, and volunteers are the stars of this episode.