Seeds

It is seed head season, and I wandered around the garden collecting seeds from native plants I’d like to try to propagate.

The penstemon digitalis hardly needs my help. It pops up in the brick paths and I weed it out and replant it wherever I want it. The others will be trickier.

I’d really like to make masses of little bluestem to use as a matrix plant throughout the garden. It exemplifies the adage about native plants taking the first year to sleep, second year to creep, and third year to leap. So I’ll have to be patient.

Garden census:

The above plants (little bluestem, Indian pinks, sea oats, obedient plant, penstemon, and coreopsis. The thistle was picked on a walk, and since I can’t identify it as native rather than bull thistle I won’t grow it.

Plus a hawk. I can’t tell what kind – the identification app was inconclusive. But he was very handsome.