Compulsive Seed Disorder!
This was to be the year that I slowed down on germinating seeds . Since 2017, I have built 2 rain gardens, converted bark mulched, depleted, depleted home-depot areas with living landscapes and biologically active soils, done and re-done the edges along my driveway, planted a shade garden from shrubs and seeds in a former chicken pen, planted fruit trees, created a perennial border along Woodbury Avenue in front of the historic stone wall, and added a few pocket gardens here and there. Time for break right? Well, that's what I thought.... But collecting wild seeds is a passion. It can make you feel that the habitat losses due to development and invasive species can be mitigated, offset, or even reversed if others follow your lead. But how will they if all people can find are home-depot clones sold as natives when they are not. People do not have access to wild, genetically diverse plants, from the region in which we live. So as a seed collector and wildflower enthusiast, I