Trumpet Vine seed pods. I cut these away as soon as they form. I planted one Trumpet Vine cutting about fifteen years ago to attract hummingbirds and now I consider the Trumpet Vine a noxious weed sprouting up here and there and strangling everything in sight. This summer I spent one day a week digging or cutting Trumpet Vine out of the flower garden. I must say, though, that the flowers do attract hummingbirds.
Some seeds I eat like Black Turtle Beans, Painted Pony Beans, Jacob's Cattle Beans and...
...Christmas Lima Beans.
I let the Phlox seeds plant themselves where they want.
Blackberry Lily seeds. A friend sent me some of these seeds a couple of years ago. This is the first my lilies produced their own seeds. I'm going to experiment with them and plant some outside and then later in the year when I start my winter sown seeds I'll start some in containers.
Echinacea or Purple Coneflower. The goldfinch sit on the plants and eat the seeds but do leave some for me. I need to start a few more plants. The flower garden used to be full of Purple Coneflower that grew wild but the plants have faded away over the years. I am starting a native wildflower area and will start a bunch of these seeds early in the year for that area. I'm also going to sprinkle seeds here and there in that area.
Datura spiky seed pods. They reseed themselves here and there in the veggie garden every year and I leave a few plants but pull out the rest. The flowers are pretty white trumpets but those seed pods are sure prickly and sometimes referred to as Devil's Balls.
I have saved Zinnia seeds for years. My husband thought he would help me out and harvest some Zinnia seeds but these weren't quite ready, darn it.
One seed
can start a garden
One drop
can start a sea
One doubt
can start a hating
One dream
can set us free.
----Joan Walsh Anglund
