Oriental Poppy
It's no secret I love growing plants from seed.
In fact, I get almost as much joy seeing seedpods as I do from seeing flowers.
Erythronium
I use a lot of different methods of sowing. I winter sow, I sow under plastic cloches, I direct sow, and I sow in my little portable greenhouses in late winter/early spring.
Pacific Coast iris
Seeds are such magical little packages.
Pink Lupine
Some seeds, especially those of spring ephemerals, need to be sowed very fresh, immediately after ripening.
Pink Dicentra formosa
White Dicentra formosa
Aquilegia formosa
Camassia quamash
Delphinium menziesii
I'm intrigued how much the Delphinium seedpods look like columbine. I figure they will ripen similarly. When the pod starts to turn brown and split, I'll collect them in labeled plastic cups, open the pods all up so they spill into the cup, and let them dry for a bit.
Aquilegia 'Clementine Red'
Aquilegia 'Leprechaun Gold'
Even though the aquilegia seeds are open-pollinated, I've found that the variegation in 'Leprechaun Gold' comes true. I thought last year that I had collected all the seeds.
But I must have missed lots.
Because I have babies everywhere.
Watch my blog for a post when I offer to share seeds. I hope they all ripen properly, but I don't want to offer any prematurely. But once I have a good amount, I'll let you have some.
