Seeds

[Sonjiskica]

Do you have any flowers that create seeds? I only have sunflowers and I use their seeds for almost everything! I make my own oil and I make soap, too. I used to eat them also! What are your experiences/opinions? Do you have such plants?

 

[JBtheExplorer]

I have many plants that produce seed. Not really any that are of human use, though. My seeds go directly back into the garden to make it larger and also more lush.

 

[prose]

Many annual flowers produce seed that is easily harvest able and can be dried and saved for the next growing season. In fact, some annual flowers will actually reseed themselves. I have found that marigolds are particularly easy to grow from seed that you have collected from the plant at the end of its life, and sometimes the marigold seeds will replant themselves for the next spring pretty well.

 

[Daren]

I always harvest & scatter many seeds from my garden Aquilegia, foxgloves, hollyhocks, poppys, & English marigolds are a few that come to mind and are vary easy here in England I will be planting a few sunflower seeds also

 

[marlingardener]

Texas has a native sunflower that pops up everywhere (farmers hate it!) but is useful for wildlife.
We have several plants that self-seed--tropical sage, dill, Peruvian rose, poppy, and some ornamental grasses. We don't "use" the seeds except to occasionally gather a few for people who want to start the plant in their own gardens.

 

[Sonjiskica]

Many annual flowers produce seed that is easily harvest able and can be dried and saved for the next growing season. In fact, some annual flowers will actually reseed themselves. I have found that marigolds are particularly easy to grow from seed that you have collected from the plant at the end of its life, and sometimes the marigold seeds will replant themselves for the next spring pretty well.

I have marigolds and they are perfect! I just love them! I recently had to give some seeds to a dear friend of mine and it was very hard getting them out!