was growing looked like squash to us. We rationalized we must have left a few squash on the ground and the seeds from them must have produced the new plants. Nice theory. We were excited to think we were ahead of the game and that we would be enjoying squash early this year. But as the plants grew and grew and grew, eventually becoming taller than our fence, and then produced this beautiful little red flower, well, we finally realized it wasn’t the squash that had come back—it was the hollyhocks.