Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seeds. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Day 130

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.

Doug Larson



This picture explains why they can't grow in lines as they spread their seed on the wind

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Day 124...

Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

Debby Boone



 

These are achene from the London Planetree, which line Hutt Street; the achenes have numerous stiff hairs which aid wind dispersal; the cluster breaks up slowly over the winter to release the numerous 2–3 mm seeds

Sunday, February 20, 2011