Video Transcript:
It is amazing how easy it is to collect seeds from most of our native flowers. And Coreopsis couldn’t have made it any easier.
These have already flowered, uh, and they’ve gone to seed, but this is so prolific. Literally, this is full of seeds.
It’s so easy to collect. And a lot of times I will do a collection to put ’em in my bag here, my envelope where I just write the name and the date.
If you’re going to do this, there are some stratification techniques that you’ll need to follow.
Check out the comments I have step-by-step instructions.
And if you don’t even want to collect the seed heads, you really can just come up to them and just sprinkle them. I’m creating a new meadow here, new prairie, and I literally will just come out in the evening and pop off Coreopsis seed heads and just sprinkle them and let them lie here through the winter.
They’ll come up on their own in the spring.
I’m Patrick. Let’s go native.
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