Wild Plant Seed Saving

The urge to purge has been building again. It seems like not much time elapses between these purge fests I privately hold at my house. I seem to clear out and then almost instantly want to do it again, and again, and again. It’s all about that search for simplicity I suppose. I think this urge also tends to rear its ugly head just about at the beginning of the holiday seasons. So…right on time. I kind of started this weekend with a trash sweep. I tend to not throw things out because I feel really bad about throwing anything out, but then I realize that I’m not really accomplishing much when I just let it pile up in the back corner. Out the door it went. I also have a large pile in the basement all ready for a yard sale or to donate to Goodwill or something. I really almost love getting rid of stuff much more than getting anything. It’s funny to me because we really do not have much “stuff”. If you walked into our living room you might just think we just moved in, but that was almost 5 years ago.

Today brought me up to the kitchen, where a lot of nature has been coming in and sticking around for tea and supper. The beautiful fall leaves have dried to a crisp and this morning whispered quietly to me that they are ready to be back outside. So, we spent some time going through our treasures and collected as many seeds from different plants as we could. My idea is to plant them in our backyard and re flourish a “wild” part of our yard. Now… we have originally collected these bits of plant life from various areas, around where we live…and brought them home. I’m not too sure how environmentally correct I am going to be by doing this. I mean they are native to our area. I guess one thing is for sure, planting some wild seed a little further than the wind probably would’ve carried it, is much better than plowing over fields and pouring down concrete, so I’m probably in the safe zone. Right?

Is anyone a plant whiz and know what type of plant this is?

As you can see, we shouldn’t have any trouble remembering which seeds are which, given the lovely labeling job done by Hawthorn. After collecting our seeds, our nature pile can go back out to nature to become new nature, and then our house will have room to invite the next batch of treasure over for tea.