Meanings of self-sown in English

On the left, the self-sown firs grow in close ranks.

There were self-sown wheat-fields and vines growing there.

They had found self-sown corn too, probably maize.

It's all self-sown -we had no hand in it other than to leave them to seed.

In very many instances, seed, of course, self-sown has become rooted and grown vigorously on unplowed land.

The desolation of that garden, choked with weeds and a wild growth of self-sown crops, is indescribable.

It was 1987 and botanist Dr Wilson suggested gorse would be the perfect cover to protect self-sown native seedlings.

Some trees, such as self-sown sycamores that have become monsters simply through lack of early remedial action, are obvious examples.

They had samples of self-sown grain, too, and the skins of animals which they had trapped or shot with bows.

This ditch or drain, now smooth and greyish-green with bent and self-sown saplings, is still known as the Sapper's Cut.

Round each colossus a crowd of wild and self-sown saplings had grown up, thicket-like with the entanglement of their young shoots.

Most of the trees on the side of Chanctonbury and its neighbours were self-sown, children of the clumps which Mr. Goring planted.

The whole surface of the streets, except narrow footpaths, were overrun with self-sown indigo, and tons of it might have been collected.

Here self-sown magenta petunias made banks of colour against the old brick walls, and the evening light, just turning rosy, fell thereon.

One of the joys of hand-weeding, as opposed to scraping around with a hoe, is that you come across self-sown seedlings of favourite plants.

Oats of the kind grown on the Atlantic grow luxuriantly and wild, self-sown on all the hills of the coast, furnishing abundant supplies for horses.