SEEDS COMING IN –– for 2023

Seed capsules from
Louise's wild perennial Sweet Peas,
(Lathyrus latifolius,)
Gatehouse Species Rosa glauca hips,
full of seeds,
 and 
Stems of Angel's long-lived 
Crocosmia "Lucifer" seed pods.
Thank you everyone for this
Shaw Island harvest
Coming in for the seed archive,
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.

 
 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

SEEDS COMING IN for Autumn 2021

 

Malcolm Cameron (1902-1975)
"Winter Storage"

Cameron's Shaw Island reefnet boats  
escort the last crop of seeds harvested; 
Rosa glauca heps,
Yansen farm fat Cardoon pods,
pods of perennial Sweet Peas,
as they also hunker down for winter storage.
A healthy supply for the Gatehouse seed rack,
Reefnet Bay Road,
Shaw Island, San Juan Archipelago, WA.
Fourteen October 2021.
Thanks, Diana.

"Two sounds of autumn are unmistakable––the hurrying rustle of crisp leaves blown across the street by a gusty wind, and the gabble of a flock of migrating geese."
       American writer Hal Borland.

A "V" of migrating geese were seen flying east over the Yansen farm yesterday headed for their safe "winter storage" in the Skagit River valley. 

🌿 Wordless Wednesday

Seeds coming in,
anno two August 2016.
I've never seen a Shaw Island Phormium 
plant produce seeds, (upper right.)
Thanks, Chris C!