I don’t recognize any of your mysteries. It might help if we knew your general location…
My guesses, Tortuga - the first one looks like a type of sage. The second one (with bright green, rounded leaves) looks familiar, but I can’t put my finger on it. Lemon balm or basil, maybe? Do the leave have a smell when crushed? It looks kind of herb-y. I’m fairly sure the third one is a common weed - it looks like a weed we have around here.
I checked on my Stella d’Oro day lily bulbs today; one looked like it’s coming up, but the other two don’t look like they’re doing much. I went and bought a replacement plant; it’s quite lovely. I hope it makes it (along with the other two bulbs). Otherwise I’ll just buy a couple of plants next spring; I don’t think I’ll do bulbs again. I like the immediate gratification of planting more mature plants. 
It’s been a pretty hectic week otherwise so my garden has been neglected. However, one thing to come out of this is my cat (had it’s front leg amputated) will find it more difficult to use my garden as a litter tray.
Whoops! Sorry about that, we’re in the high desert of northern California. Not that high, only 2,500’ but there are a lot of microclimates in here. We’re in a bit of low scrubby grazeland with lots of juniper and volcanic rock, sandy water sucking soil. I think it’s either Sunset’s 2B or more likely zone 1A.
Thanks for the clues, I’ll pull the weedy looking one–I had hopes it might be some sort of grain, but if it is, nothing has shown up so it might as well be compost. I’ll crush the leaves of the other, rounder darker one, when I’m in the garden later. I did plant some basil in the area–maybe it’s holy basil? It doesn’t really look like I remember it looking when I planted it before and it’s the only plant that showed up, while I know I planted equal amount of holy and cinnamon basils.
Heh - now I’m picturing you going out to your garden, having forgotten you planted it, and exclaiming, “Holy Basil!” 
If you’re in scrubby grazeland, I stick with some kind of sage for the first one.
I was guessing sage on the first one, too, if that helps. I don’t think the second one is a basil, but I suppose it could be an herb. Third one looks weedy to me too.
I love the White Casablanca Lillies! If front of our hospital the whole front is lined with Stella D’Oro Daylillies and when they all bloom it is drop dead gorgeous. It is like a block long! I’m still trying to decide what color I want to go with.
May I jump in here and say we planted a bed of casablanca and stargazer lillies this year, and they were quite lovely. Though it was so hot they didn’t last too long.
Now, I have a question, we have planted dahlias in big containers every year, and this is the first year the dahlias failed to bloom. They are big, they have lots of leaves, but little tiny flower buds that show no promise. They get plenty of sun and water, but no flowers. Any idea why they pooped out? Too much water, maybe? (we’ll have to do a post- mortem in the fall when we tear down the containers - if the bulbs are bad, we’ll know.)
Sorry, I’m not familiar with growing dahlias. Our roses didn’t bloom this year, either, then they got a massive aphid infestation and were growing over the path, so I just gave them a serious haircut. I’ve started digging them out to move them, too - our last house had gorgeous roses in the wrong place, and I’m moving these ones right away this time.
Here’s a link to some possibilities.
ETA: The pink and white lilies together sounds just lovely! I’m planning to make one of my beds a lily bed; I’m not sure what to put in with them to make the lilies really pop, though. Have to think on that.
Every year my wife buys the plants while I dig up for a garden. This year she gave me a squash. She says she did not buy one but there it is. I don’t know what kind it is or how big they should grow before i Take the squash. It is of course blocking a lot of plants from light. It has dark green striped fruit about 18 inches long and about 9 inches in diameter.
Thanks for the link on dahlias, Cat Whisperer…
I have two rose bushes also in containers and most of the leaves have fallen off from black spot. But there’s a lot of new growth, so I’m going to have flowers on nearly bare stalks!
I tried looking this up and failed. Anyone?
Without seeing the plant of Gonzomax, it sounds like a watermelon. (Just stating the obvious)
I was thinking zucchini. 
We got the front retaining wall of our first big plant bed half done this weekend - we finally had the time and the materials to get it done, and then the weather crapped out. Sigh. I’ll be glad when the front yard work is done - the street is fairly busy, and besides the noise and the exhaust smells, I don’t like everyone watching me all the time as I work. Only three beds, a pathway, and a deck left to go!
I’m glad this thread is back! My little alpine strawberry plants are still giving us tons of fruit - a good handful every week, from just two plants! And my blueberry bushes are producing nicely as well.
Autumn is definitely in the air here, so I’m starting to think about what to do with my pots over the winter. I figure the lettuce and spinach won’t last (but they’ve bolted - can I harvest the seeds and plant them in the spring?). The rosemary will come back after the winter, but I may need to re-plant the mint, sage, and thyme. The sugar snap peas are not looking very good anyway, so they won’t last. What about my strawberries and blueberries? Do I need to do anything special to help my plants survive, especially since they’re in pots on my balcony?
Another side-effect of this gardening bug I seem to have caught: I’m already starting to think about what I’ll plant or do differently next year. When I read in one of the Anne of Green Gables books that this was how they’d spend time during the winter, I assumed it was a chore - something that must be done. Now I get it - it’s fun!
I’d try harvesting the seeds, and see how it goes. I know I can’t expect anything to overwinter in pots here; it just gets too cold. Bringing the pots inside doesn’t seem to help, either - the plants aren’t happy with inside conditions, in my experience. Once our garage is insulated I might try them in there - putting them in a sunny spot. I’ve got a Wedgewood Blue lilac in a pot that needs to go in the ground - as soon as I get the bed in front done, in it goes, or it will probably be a write-off for this year.