Going to Seed
/This time of year, the plants are going to seed. I walked around our yard finding a few:
A dandelion puff in the grass – not a many as in the warm days of late spring and early summer…once the dandelion crescendo they continue flowering and making seed puffs through the warm months until frost.
Many of the ferns have spores on the back of their leaves.
Coneflowers look almost threatening with the spikes of seeds….a drape of drying petals below.
We had a pyracantha at one corner of our house when we move here over 25 years ago – it died back but has now come up from the roots and has orange berries again this year – a pop of color beneath the huge bush growing above the re-emerging pyracantha.
The allium in the chaos garden has green seedpods. They’ll take a little longer to dry and pop open to let the black seeds escape.
