Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Seed starting MAF part 3 5/23/14, 4 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
Apeedie---
I have a good cup-full of Cleome seeds....can send you plenty.
Since they are biennials--you can scatter a FEW --and they will come up next summer.
The seedlings are easy to ID--ass the leaves look just like the adult ones.

Funny! I have NOT grown Cleomies in the last 3 years--BUT--they came up
in several places this spring. So--I planted them here and there....

Just like my "Grandpa Ott" MG's. I only grew them about 5years ago. Never again..
The seeds are still sprouting all over...

4 O'Clocks will do the same thing....Live forever!
The beauty of the 4's is that it blooms in different colors or combos of.
All the pictures below are some examples.

Pictures from 2010.
Be aware--how widespread they grow. If you plant them in a "clump"--
it will just be one, gorgeous mass of blooms.
See those small, curved 'pods" that cover the whole stem up to the blooms? (#4)
Those each contain about 30-40 seeds. When the pods start to look pale/grayish--
they are ripe--and the smallest touch will make them pop open.
Like mini-peas-in-a-pod. The seeds are dark and perfectly round.
Hold the pod in your palm before touching it--and then the seeds will fall in your hand.
This is WHY I have over a cup-full of seeds....

LMK if you want some seeds... Gita