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- In late winter the spherical seed heads of Japanese anemone are speckled with seed.
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- Split apart the quilt reveals a hollow centre..
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- Looking like a squashed cushion, this one is loosing its stuffing.
Wordless Wednesday : Fluffy Seed Heads
15 Wednesday Feb 2017
Posted in Gardening
Barn House Garden 
So interesting!
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Seed heads fascinate me, some of the structures seem as beautiful as the actual flowers.
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These are always so fascinating – when we remember to leave the seedheads on, of course!
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So true, Cathy and then there’s remembering to look. I only noticed these when I went to cut them down on Tuesday.
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They are gorgeous. Do you find yourself pulling them further and further apart, to see how far and thin they will stretch? (Maybe that is just me)
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Oh, that sounds like fun, I shall try it 🙂. The fine fibres look as though the could be spun … by fairies?
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They look like cotton balls.
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They do! It looks like birds have been pulling them apart, for the seed or to line their nests?
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Have you tried growing the seed Kate?
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No, have you? These are the spreading common pink ones, I’ve divided clumps over the years to fill gaps in the autumn borders but find they’re quite slow to establish.
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I’ve tried the plants here but it is too dry for them, a couple hang on but they haven’t flowered for several years.
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I guess with your dry summers that makes sense, they seem to flower best in years with a good amount of rain in July/August … here that’s nearly every year!
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Artistic looking seed pods! It sounds like it would also be too dry here in summer in my climate for them to grow.
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I don’t know much about them, but from what people say it seems they like moist conditions. Having said that they thrive in my garden at the base of a south facing stone wall in gravel ….
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