My Wildlife Allotment in Elk: "I like #plants with nice seed..."

I like #plants with nice seed heads in #winter and planted quite a lot of them on my allotment. Some of my favourite seed heads at the moment are Echinacea purpurea which will last until the end of winter, Telekia speciosa which look great on cold sunny days, the spiky seed heads of Eryngium such as E. variifolium, and many of the grasses such as Miscanthus sinensis.

December 5, 2022 at 12:19:03 PM

I think the wisest course is simply to leave things standing until they fall. Then it's a toss up between simply leaving them as ground cover and to mulch the area or sometimes being overcome by tidiness and composting them. But echinacea seed heads look lovely.