AUTUMN SEEDS of Shaw

Wild, perennial Sweet Pea
(Lathyrus latifolius)

Grown and harvested from one of 
the few remaining hideaways for this 
wild perennial occurring  on 
Shaw Island, San Juan Archipelago. 
Harvested summer of 2020.

"Although a thoughtful bee still travels

And midge-ball ravels and unravels,

Yet strewn along the pathway lie

Like small open sarcophagi

The hazel nuts broken in two

And cobwebs catch the seed-pearl dew.

Now summer’s flowers are winter’s weeds,

I think of all the sleeping seeds;

Winds were their robins and by night

Frosts glue their leafy cover tight;

Snow may shake down its dizzy feathers,

They will sleep safely through all weathers."

Andrew Young.

Autumn Seeds.

From Cottage Flowers. Marie Angel. London; 

Pelham Books Ltd. 1980.