Foxlgoves (Digitalis), lupins (Lupinus), honesty (Lunara annua), sweet rocket (Hesperis matronalis), poppies (Papaver) – all of these will be forming seed heads right now and if you have them in your garden or plot, it’s well worth saving and drying them to plant for another year. Over the next few weeks, these will be joined by sweet peas, sunflowers, Cosmos, … Read More
Setting seed: the many ingenious (and sometime bizarre) ways that plants propagate by seed.
Plants have developed ingenious ways to spread their seed. From helicopters to ants, they’ll use whatever way they can to keep the line going!