I saw something green on supposedly herbaceous plant, Eryngium. I went over to have a closer look….
Something is growing on the seed head…
They are the seed from the very plant, germinating in situ!!! That is wrong but fascinating. Did it think it fell onto the ground? Did it think it was spring? Here in Devon, quite often the seed heads become unable to disperse seed because it is very wet in autumn. One of my colleagues told me that she has seen Alliums do the same thing, but I have never seen either do anything like this.
So I cut two of these heads off and inserted into gritty compost as it was, to see what happens. Hopefully we will have a few more Eryngium next year.
This is a picture from some days ago. I probably saw about five rainbows in a week last week.
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