{"id":4316,"date":"2013-08-18T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-18T13:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2026-01-15T17:57:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:57:21","slug":"seedy-saturdays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/?p=4316","title":{"rendered":"Seedy Saturdays"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seedy Saturdays<\/a> have nothing to do with weekend decay \ud83d\ude42 They are actually days when people get together to exchange seeds from their respective gardens.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Coreopsis<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nThis 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.<\/p>\n

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 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Tri-coloured Rose of Sharon<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nNow 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Lobelia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\nSeedy 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!<\/p>\n

Have a blooming wonderful day!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seedy Saturdays have nothing to do with weekend decay \ud83d\ude42 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gardening","category-unicorns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4319,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/4319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeiswhathappens.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}