Curiously shaped shoe-like, hairy seed pods follow sulphur yellow flowers.
Update : A day or two after posting this I discovered these are not seed pods but unfurling new leaves.
Wordless Wednesday : Epimedium pinnatum
20 Wednesday Apr 2016
Posted in Gardening
Barn House Garden 
Oh, they look like unfurling leaves. Never seen the pods before. Thanks. Our flowers are usually eaten just after they open. I think that the petal spurs are also odd looking – like Alibaba shoes!
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Yes, close up, quite odd all round. Some people refer to the flowers as “bishops’hats”, however, I agree with you the shoe-like similarity is marked both in flowers as well as the hirsute pixieish pods.
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I’ve just had another look at them today – you are right! They are unfurling leaves not seed pods. When I get a minute I shall update this.
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So pretty, I’ ve never noticed the seed pods. Maybe you can breed your own Barnhouse hybrid.
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I haven’t noticed them til this year either, as ground cover I tend to overlook them. Aren’t they strange? I shall be watching the others I’ve got to see if the seed pods are the same shape … or not. ‘Pinnatum’ may mean pointy!
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Bishops hat explained. I always thought if was an odd common name. Now I understand, thanks Kate
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I was a bit puzzled myself, I was thinking the flowers didn’t look much like a bishop’s mitre, then someone pointed out that the common name referred to the four cornered clergyman’s biretta.
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