SEED HARVESTING TIME HAS BEGUN

This hot weather has all of us in accelerated gardening mode, especially plants. You may have noticed that many of your plants are flowering early and ones that have flowered are setting seed very quickly. So now is the time to check those early spring blooming natives for seed heads. Plants like pussy toes , prairie smoke, pasque flower, and wild geranium are all setting seed here in the twin cities region. Many other early flowering native shrubs and trees are setting seed as well. Now it’s time to take your phone or camera out to the garden to document the current plant life stages for your MnSEED project. Here is a link to local pussytoes that has ready had seed harvested: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/80690444

Posted on 11 June, 2021 22:56 by sckh