A PRODIGALITY

 

"The vegetable life does not content itself
with casting from the flower
or the tree, a single seed,
but it fills the air and earth with a 
 prodigality of seeds,
that if thousands perish,
 thousands may plant themselves,
that hundreds may come up,
that tens may live to maturity,
that, or least, one
  may replace the parent."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Extracted from "The Triumph of Seeds"
by Thor Hanson
Signed copy from the library of 
Gatehouse Seeds,
Shaw Island, San Juan Archipelago, WA.
Wild Douglas Aster seed harvest of 2024.
More about this easy-street, wild perennial,
wildflower, loved by many pollinators - 
can be seen here.

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Fresh local seed packets available at the 
Gatehouse roadside shed, 
Reefnet Bay Road, 
Shaw Island, San Juan Archipelago, WA.