do it?
That’s what I want to know?
This huge seed head I have just scrumped from the waste ground beside the river at the bottom of the road and mighty fine it is too!
Do I stand over the patch I want to encourage it to grow in and blow...
you know the sort of thing...
One o clock
Two o clock
etc.
Or do I carefully like a proper gardener collect the seeds and pop into a brown paper bag and save until exactly when?
And then what do I do?
Mother Nature has it sussed, the seeds have it sussed. I love the fact they just pop up where the fancy takes them, oh and the conditions are just right for their needs.
I have earmarked a few others that are just about to open their clock faces. In the meantime a little light research is required... I wonder if she has a web site or better yet a helpline?
I am assuming you know what it will grow into? Some years ago I watched a plant that I saw on a dog walk until it seeded...and I carefully collected the seeds and sowed them...I think one little bit came up, but it died!! I had to look up what it was....a wild flower, but quite unusual...name had something to do with goats maybe!?
ReplyDeleteThis comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
DeleteI got my already programmed and blanked ATM card to withdraw the maximum of $1,000 daily for a maximum of 20 days. I am so happy about this because i got mine last week and I have used it to get $20,000. Mike Fisher Hackers is giving out the card just to help the poor and needy though it is illegal but it is something nice and he is not like other scam pretending to have the blank ATM cards. And no one gets caught when using the card. get yours from Mike Fisher Hackers today! *email cyberhackingcompany@gmail.com
DeletePS....just found it......"Purple goat's beard". It comes in yellow too!
ReplyDeleteWhat a clever girl... just looked it up and that is it! Thank you Frances. I am now waiting for the book to arrive that you said the other day you were struggling with. Let’s hope your non-recommendation on this is as successful. I will let you know!
DeleteLX
Lettice,
ReplyDeleteHow she does it….I don’t know! I just know when she creates, we destroy!
I am looking at your picture and wondering when you last used those lovely tea cups.
The toast holder is very cute!... I got introduced to Marmite by my SIL who is from England.
I like it but seldom buy it.
From Mother Nature to Marmite….how did that just happen?
Hugs.
Yup, she’s quite a gal! The tea cups I don’t think I ever have used, I just love spotty china. The wonderful toast rack I bought years ago from a food fest I organised. It was made by a local centre for people with special needs. We used it every day even though one of the little cakes is glued on. I love it so much I am afraid it will get more seriously broken. On the same stall they were selling the most glorious coil teapots in a very similar naive style. I hugely regret not buying one of them as well, my reason was I doubted they would hold water... what was that all about? They were so beautiful who cares that they may not have been up to the job of making tea! What a clot!?!
DeleteErr... Mother Nature has a hand in making Marmite as well...
LX
Vegemite....by the spoonful. Now that I think of it must go and hunt some out.
ReplyDeleteI have it on good authority Marmite is in short supply due to it being a byproduct of the brewing industry. Nobody is drinking much beer due to the lockdown, hence the shortage. These pots aren’t me stock piling it, they are special edition jars.
DeleteLX
I am hopelessly addicted to gathering seeds from interesting plants, trouble is I put them into a safe pocket and then forget about them.
ReplyDeleteI could have wept today when I passed a friend's compost heap (makes me sound like a nosy neighbour, but it is outside their fence, in the green lane where I walk the dog to the fields.) carelessly thrown onto the top were about 2 dozen huge leeks which had formed a seed head and were about to pop open. Quite apart from the wasted leeks, the birds would have loved the seeds, plus they look rather splendid as they tower above the veggie beds.
Elaine, I’m with you on this, the trouble is knowing when and how to propagate them. Those leeks as you say would have looked spectacular towering over the veg plot, especially with the birds harvesting the seeds. Why is the compost heap outside their fence, sounds a bit odd? Still I suppose them having a compost heap is a plus.
DeleteLX
I've seen these here, in meadows. Good luck propagating them.
ReplyDeleteThe easy bit is the scrumping, the difficult bit is the getting the conditions right for them to grow. They really are the most beautiful of flowers living proudly on a scruffy piece of ground right beside the river Teme. I want them in my garden, she says stamping her foot!
DeleteLX