Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Seed Pods

Growing up, we had day lilies of numerous varieties and colors all over the yard. I remember being fascinated in the fall when the seed pods dried and cracked open. I enjoyed breaking them apart and dumping the seeds on the ground. I always wondered about the seeds and whether they would really sprout into a day lily because I knew my mom always spread them by division. I still haven't found out if you plant a seed whether you'll get a day lily or not. Currently in our yard there is just one or two. The texture and color of the seed pods grabbed my interest for a picture a week or two ago.
Here's how it looked back in August. Soon the seeds will be buried under snow.

4 comments:

Dan said...

Nice depth of field on the seed head shots. Do you upload any photos to flickr?

On another note, I have been researching how to grow brussels sprouts after harvesting my small sprouts. I found a page at the link below that suggests good varieties and talks about planting later spring/early summer for better growth. I thought I would share as we seem to be in the same predicament.

http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/veggies/brusselssprouts1.html

DP Nguyen said...

Wonderful photos!

Emily said...

No I only use flickr for photos for Ravelry. I use Picasa because its easier to upload them as I go for the blog posts with blogger, than it is to upload to flickr and then link to them again to load them on the blog.

I do try to put my best photos in the public album that produces the slide show on my sidebar.

Marcia said...

I don't recall that I let the day lilies go to seed pods. I would always clip them off because I didn't want the plants expending energy on seeds.