purple rain

My woodland, cottage, informal jungle of a garden is loving the wet weather a darn sight more than me. The honesty in particular is looking great and is a first for my garden.

 

I really like the looks of that, EJ. Will you save some of those seeds?

 

Is honesty the same thing as silver dollar plant? Lunaria?

BTW @EJ, I really like your posting title!

 

Yes it is Cayuga, and thank you.

Eileen and Sjoerd, I will save some seeds but also let it just drop it’s seeds. I do work in a garden where the lady lets them run riot so I do have to thin them out from time to time, and of course, you know where those plants will end up. Another customer has a couple of white honesty plants, so I plan to gather some seed from those too.

 

@EJ do you know the growing cycle of the lunaria? I have a couple of plants in pots, they made beautiful purple flowers and started making the pods, but after that the plants seem stationary and that they have stopped growing altogether. Some of the flowers did not finish to blossom either. I know that the lunaria is supposed to die after it had made the pods, but will this happen in the spring or later in summer? Thank you!

 

@EJ...it's a stunning site and what beautiful colour

 

@Giulia
They flower early, then eventually make the seed pods. You have to let the pods mature & dry out & then they drop their seeds. At this stage, the plant looks pretty unsightly, but if you want the lunaria next spring, you have to just deal with it. After the pods mature, you can strip away the outer covering to reveal the "silver dollars". Very pretty. Make great dried arrangements.

I have a friend who has let them naturalize in her woods. They are gorgeous there.

 

Honesty grows wild everywhere here. On the side of the road and everywhere.

 

@Cayuga Morning thank you! So is it normal for it to look like a dead plant with green pods on?

 

Frankly I can't remember. I just remember they go through an unsightly period which is fine if they are naturalized in the woods.