COLLECTED SEEDS FOR A GIFT (種を採ってお礼に)

We collected seeds of flowers in the potager; poppy, foxglove and silene.  This year, we are sending seeds to the visitors to our open garden for charity last May with our feelings of gratitude.


ポタジェのポピー、ジギタリス、そしてフクロナデシコの種をとりました。今年はオープンガーデンにきていただいた方に感謝の気持ちを込めて少しお送りします。

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WILDFLOWER MIXED SEEDS

My English teacher of an English conversation class gave me plant seeds as a souvenir from England.  It is written that this contains mixed seeds of wild flowers including yarrow, ragged robin, scabious and mallow, etc.  

I tried to identify seeds of each flowers.  There seemed to be five different kinds of plant seeds, however, I am not sure because the seeds were too small to clearly identify.

Yarrow seeds

Ragged robin?

Mallow seeds?

These couldn't be identified. 

Neither these. 

Seeds were sown in small pots, and I am looking forward to their germination.

COLLECTING SEEDS

Last weekend we collected seeds of spring and early summer flowers.

In the potager we planted oriental poppy, foxglove, agrostemma, Silene latifolia (white campion), California poppy, flax, Orlaya grandiflora (White lace flower) , etc.  Those flowers were so beautiful in May, and are over in June.  Seeds are stored in envelopes until they are sown.

Agrostemma

Silene latifolia, agrostemma, Orlaya grandiflora

White foxglove

An envelope for seeds (this is for white foxglove)

Flax is used as dry flowers for a while.