Growing from seed dispersed by natural agency such as wind or birds.
1On the left, the self-sown firs grow in close ranks.
2There were self-sown wheat-fields and vines growing there.
3They had found self-sown corn too, probably maize.
4It's all self-sown -we had no hand in it other than to leave them to seed.
5In very many instances, seed, of course, self-sown has become rooted and grown vigorously on unplowed land.
6The desolation of that garden, choked with weeds and a wild growth of self-sown crops, is indescribable.
7It was 1987 and botanist Dr Wilson suggested gorse would be the perfect cover to protect self-sown native seedlings.
8Some trees, such as self-sown sycamores that have become monsters simply through lack of early remedial action, are obvious examples.
9They had samples of self-sown grain, too, and the skins of animals which they had trapped or shot with bows.
10This ditch or drain, now smooth and greyish-green with bent and self-sown saplings, is still known as the Sapper's Cut.
11Round each colossus a crowd of wild and self-sown saplings had grown up, thicket-like with the entanglement of their young shoots.
12Most of the trees on the side of Chanctonbury and its neighbours were self-sown, children of the clumps which Mr. Goring planted.
13The whole surface of the streets, except narrow footpaths, were overrun with self-sown indigo, and tons of it might have been collected.
14Here self-sown magenta petunias made banks of colour against the old brick walls, and the evening light, just turning rosy, fell thereon.
15One 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.
16Oats 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.