sharing seeds... I would love for my gardens to tell more stories. Does that sound odd? Maybe I should rephrase. It just that when I look at my white phlox, I remember that day five summers ago when I came home from a friend's toting my new addition to my perennial beds. That day was a blast. A quintessential early summer's day. It's like when you hear that certain song come on the radio and you are instantly transported back to a memory. Well, I want that, but with my garden. A garden of meaning, so to speak.
Sometimes the meaning is simply a connection to a person. I think of my friend Sue each time I take a snip of tarragon. It is the seventh generation of cuttings from Sue's original plant that we harvest from today. I love connecting via our gardens.
I truly feel akin to so many of you kind folks who continue to drop on by and share your garden and food stories with me. I just think it would be pretty darn cool to be able to connect our gardens. A kind of a communal seed share. Connect with fellow gardeners and foodies via our plants.
So, with that, I just snipped off all the dried seed pods of my one of my favorite flowers, the Oriental Poppy. Without fail, each late Spring, these poppies have provided mind-bending color enjoyment. A prolific self-seeder, these tiny little seeds happily plant themselves throughout your flower beds. They are also quite cold-tolerant, proving to be a hardy plant for this Zone 5 gardener.
I harvested plenty of these tiny, little seeds and I would love to share them with you. If you'd like to connect my garden with yours, please leave a comment and then drop me an email at allison@atastefulgarden.com with a mailing address. A seed packet of Oriental Poppies will happily be on its way to you. Happy gardening!
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I love personal garden connections and stories too. It's strange how we never, never forget them. Thanks for the offer to share your poppy seeds; I'd love a few! I received blue hubbard squash seeds last year from A Small Kitchen Garden (blog) and I appreciate that connection every time I tend to those plants. Thanks, and keep the stories coming!
Eleanor
What a beautiful post. I have similar memories with friends and family in regards to different baked goods and meals. I love your oriental poppies...they are so stunning, and I can only imagine how beautiful they must be in person.
I love your pictures!
Certain flowers always bring special people and fond memories to mind. I always think of my mother when I see poppies. Oriental poppies were her favorites. Annual poppies also filled some of her flower beds. When I planted my garden, I planted oriental poppies to remind me of her.
Jennifer
A lovely post with terrific photos, and a great idea! Flighty xx
Ooooh, I love poppies - my mom gave me one last year and I just enjoyed its blooms. It is so great to receive plants from family and friends. We still have some of my grandmothers' plants going. I would love to share some seeds with you.
what a great post...and what beautiful images!!
thanks so much for sharing these moments with us!
Allison...they are beautiful photos...as usual...I would love some seeds if you have any...
Hi, again! Am catching up on a summer's worth of RSS feeds and came upon this post. I'd been meaning to ask your advice about good zone 5 plants to try for next spring, and this seemed as good a post as any to ask on! Also, if you're into seed exchanging, I would love to do so. Am just starting out over here, so don't have a huge collection aside from the stack I just ordered from Thompson and Morgan for spring, but have more than enough to share my favorites :-)
hi Angela! some of my favorite zone 5 crops are Windsor broccoli, Oliver brussel sprouts, Nelson carrots, Teide red summer crisp, Borrettana cipollini onions, Dwarf Grey Sugar snow pea, Carmen peppers, Lumina pumpkins, Easter Egg radishes, Zeppelin Delicata squash, Sun Gold cherry tomatoes, and Roma tomatoes.
i am also WAY overdue on sending out the seeds to the friends who responded to this post, so i can definitely send you out a pack of some fun seeds.
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