Topic: Lotsa something in my garden is happy. [Solved] Wonder Berry

[Patty S]

I'm not sure where seedlings stop being "seedlings" & become "plants", but I'll put this here, instead of in the "Seedling Identification" thread.   

When I decided to plant all my available seeds this year, I didn't think I'd have a problem deciphering the weeds from the unidentified plants...  & now that I have a full bed of very happy somethings, I'm starting to wonder more & more, if they really ARE weeds!  
     

As weeds go, my rule of thumb has always been, "whatever there is more of, consider it to be a weed."    According to my marker, the plants could very well be something "good", & they're so darned happy, I don't want to pull them out before I'm sure.
     
There are 2 or 3 of this same plant, coming up in another bed, but nowhere else, which is another reason I'm stumped.

There are Dahlias & Moss Rose in this bed (mostly hidden among the green)  & another of my markers is labeled, "Easter Egg Plant - Dianna"... but my problem with that, is that I didn't use up that much of the bed when I planted those seeds.  (Although they might have washed up & floated around during our heavy rains this spring?)  Some of them have these little flowers on them.... 
     

Any ideas?

[Triss]

Well it does look a lot like a Easter Egg or Wonder Egg plant but I thought those flowers were purple.  And the weeds that I have that looks similar that that one have pink or yellow flowers so I am stumped.

[Patty S]

I had Wonder Berries (in that same bed) last year, Triss, & looking back at that thread, I think that's probably what they are.  They had white flowers, & Dianna's Wonder Egg plant had purple flowers.  Even though I planted some of Dianna's seeds this year, I don't see any purple blossoms anywhere in that bed.

I wasn't impressed at all, with the Wonder Berry... (it probably got the name after people wondered why they planted the dumb things in the first place)

Here we are, a week later, & some of these darned plants are two feet tall already!  Apparently, some berries fell off the plants last year, before I cleaned the bed out.
     
Even though the plant itself IS a pretty enough plant & other than self-seeding, it doesn't seem to be "invasive", I definitely don't want them again this year... & particularly not that many of them, so they're coming out of there!

I'll go carefully, as I "weed" that bed, & might let some of them go, in hopes that some of them are, indeed, Wonder Egg plants. The marker I put in when I planted Dianna's seeds should tell me where they're supposed to be, & I really did want to try growing them this year.
     

[duh]

They look exactly like very health Chinese Lantern Plants.