Saved some pods from my butterfly weeds at the beginning of fall. Put them on my potting table and forgot about them. POW!



I laughed so hard!

so pretty and soft.

Did you know they used to collect the soft stuff to fill life jackets ? My mom (83) says she can remember collecting (during the war)

Wow! Collecting the fluff could be a real task. It is so etherial. I have trouble getting a good hold on it as it drifts about.

I think the pods are collected just before opening and seeds removed then all that is left is fluff.
Or at least that is the way I would do it

Well, that was my plan! The pods were closed. I didn't think they would explode in the house, but you know, why wouldn't they? I just wasn't thinking.

I'll have fun this winter picking the fluff off each individual seed.

I was separating seeds the other and "thought" about spinning the fluff if I had a spinning wheel Interesting about the life jackets...who would have thunk it??

I'm a lazy gardener. I'd probably sow them with the chaff.

Karen

I would too. But really I saved them to give away. So I'll clean them up

But just think: you might end up giving them away to someone who needs a life jacket!

woofie said:But just think: you might end up giving them away to someone who needs a life jacket!

Karen, i'm with you, I just plant them with the fluff.

at Woofie.

Yeah Jennifer, I too make an effort to clean up seeds for trading with other.

Karen

jvdubb said:

woofie said:But just think: you might end up giving them away to someone who needs a life jacket!

I meant to post this one....I laughed so hard I almost fell off my chair!!