Seedy Saturdays have nothing to do with weekend decay 🙂 They are actually days when people get together to exchange seeds from their respective gardens.
With all this genetic engineering going on, it’s a way of preserving heirloom varieties and keeping Monsanto’s laboratories out of the flower beds of the nation. I have never considered myself a gardener. I plant “things” and they grow, however, when I am in a group of real gardeners, I fall short – I know I’m only 5′ tall anyway – but I never know the name of the latest cultivar and I couldn’t do the Chelsea Chop, even if I knew what it meant.
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| Coreopsis |
This being said, what I plant grows and in fact, grows wild. One bush of Spirea planted a few years ago is now 5 or 6 bushes scattered around the garden in “gay abandon.” A cedar tree, sprung from a seed dropped by a small spreader, is now a towering structure for Christmas lights.
I also like playing Rose of Sharon roulette. That is, I dig up the small seedlings that sprout at the base of the tri-coloured Rose of Sharon, trying to grow a new tree in each of the three colours – white, purple and pink. I have a new mauve one now and I am just waiting until next year to see what colour a second one I transplanted will be – this roulette wheel takes a long time to spin 🙂
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| Tri-coloured Rose of Sharon |
Now I will happily share any of these seeds, along with seeds for wild Tulips, Columbine, Coreopsis. In fact I beg people to take my Lily of the Valley, orange Day Lilies, Achillea, Lady’s Mantel and more.
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| Lobelia |
Seedy Saturdays are a great way to meet people, well garden people anyway, and a great way to breathe new life into a fading border. There should be a chapter near you. Google always sends me to sites in Toronto, so it will probably send you to sites in your area. Sometimes the exchange days are called Seedy Sundays – just imagine!
Have a blooming wonderful day!!