Honesty(or Money) |
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| You can make decorative dry weed and flower arrangements using the dried seed pod and stem of the Money plant. You can buy money seeds or get dry money seeds from someone that grows money. Money is a biennial and after the first year will yield seed pods and die off the second year. Save some of your seeds and plant the Money every year so you will have some each year. They will seed themselves if you leave some seed pods on the plant. | |
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The first year the plant does not flower and yield seeds. Notice the money plant in the center of the picture. |
The First Year of Money |
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Flowering Money at the end of May |
The same Money plant in June with seed pods |
| The second year the Money will flower in late May and then yield seed pods by early June. | |
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Money seed pod |
Scanned seed pod and a dry pod from last year |
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the Money seed pods dry on the plant. They will turn
silver by fall. Remove Money seed pods with all the stem
from the plant. Then remove the thin skin from the pods.
The best ones will be silvery and translucent as shown in
the above right scan of the pods. Then you can make dry weed and flower arrangements like the ones shown below. |
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| Arrangement with dried Jack-O-Lanterns | Arrangement with dried ferns |
