20 August 2022

SEEDS COMING IN –– for 2023



Seed capsules from
Louise's wild perennial Sweet Peas,
(Lathyrus latifolius)

Gatehouse Species Rose hips full of seeds,
Rosa glauca, and 
Stems of Angel's long-lived 
Crocosmia "Lucifer" seed pods.
Thank you everyone for this
Shaw Island harvest
Coming in for winter.
20 August 2022.

"We are living in a time of unrest and worry, but the same crocus will grow near the Black Sea as grows in Spain, and these flowers don't need passports and frontiers. The seed is beyond frontiers and beyond nationalities, and the growing of things and tilling the earth is one of the most international, one of the most unpolitical things we can possibly do. Don't ever forget that the seed is the most important thing in the whole world."  Clare Leighton, garden writer, 1948.



 Freshly harvested perennial
 Sweet Pea seeds
(Lathyrus latifolius)
A wildflower still growing on Shaw Island,
Just barely.
Thanks, Louise. 

To view our first post on the wild perennial sweet peas offered at the Shaw Island Gatehouse in 2014, here is a link

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