Well, we are ready to get ourselves some monarchs next year. We are trying to plant our very own butterfly garden by dropping hundreds of milkweed seeds all over the dirt.
We've kept our eyes on the different patches of milkweed that we've spied around the town, and I noticed some of their
pods bursting with their seeds last week, so I pulled over and was rummaging through the bushes trying to tear the pods off. We had like 12 pods. 12 pods = a lot o seeds. The seeds look so cool inside, I was in silent awe of their symmetry and pattern, like fish scales, really neat:
And we plucked off the seeds and were left with a bunch of fluffy cotton all over the kitchen. I can see why the caterpillars make silk from eating this plant.
It was like a soft and quite mess of fairies floating around - easy to vacuum, impossible to sweep.
We left a few pods to dry and fluff out on their own, they looked like pretty white pine cones, really cool.
or fluffy ice cream cones if you put them upside down.
We blew them all over the dirt and sprayed them with the hose. Hope they take root and we get lots of butterflies visiting our yard next year! :)
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