Mutant plants

Ok, so my wife and I have always had flowers we plant grow far bigger than they ever should and so forth, but this year our yard is out of control.

I brought home a rose bush that was almost dead, it is now 4ft tall and stays green during winter. My Japanese iris stays green all during winter and has grown from a 1ft radius to now around 3ft. We have wild grapes growing on our fence, they have taken over. We have rose of sharon growing, what usually takes 10-15 yrs, it has grown in 1 yr. Now we have all kinds of poisonous plants growing. There are two that we both recognize but we just cannot place, and we have nightshade growing. When we moved in to this house, the yard was very sparse in vegetation, it was almost complete dirt, now things are out of control even with pruning and digging things up. They are taking over lol


So, since this is the topic of discussion around our house lately, does anyone else have mutant plants growing or non-native plants taking over? If so, what type?

well, we dont, but do you live anywhere near a nuclear plant? just curious...

Nope we are 1hour 30min away from the closest nuclear plant lol

I will also add, that none of my neighbors are having this problem, and most people in my area have a hard time getting gardens to grow because this area was strip mined years ago and the soil is very poor.

lol that blows that theory out of the water then.

ok i got nothin else...

O.o cool garden you got there

Last year there were a couple of tomato plants that were only supposed to grow to standard size, only a couple of feet, and grew almost 20 foot high, and several hundred tomatos.

beer makes pumpkins bigger, are you watering with water?

We don't water the plants in our yard, not even the flowers, have never needed to. They grow just fine after we plant them. We have had azaleas that are only supposed to get as big as 3ft grow to 6ft.

We have watermelon(or is it just plain melon?) plants and it's like taking over a huge chunk on the ground dirt on the side of our backyard against the wall. :) And it's like growing out more and more and the tiny melons are hidden behind the leaves! So adorable. >.<

azaleas like acidic soil..... i'm so baffeled