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. 

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.