Three stages - Candytuft

From buds, to flower to seeds.. the cycle is done. All in front of my eyes.

One of the things I love about growing own plants from seeds is watching the evolve, changing, slowly creating the flowers buds... until the finally boom. It is way more rewarding than buying already grown plants. But also takes a lot more time and patience.

Then you see the flower slowly fading, the pods or just seeds start to form. If the drop to the soil, another plant starts and the cycle begins all over again.

This is Candytuft [Iberis sempervirens] that I had this year in the balcony. I picked some seeds from my mum's garden last year and just dropped the seeds in spring into one of the pots. They sprouted without any issues, grew to a lovely green plants and now it is almost over. Time to pick the seeds again and keep them for another season. I like those. So easy to grow, so resistance to heat and me forgetting to water them sometimes. And the just look so pretty.

Check that out. This is how what's left of the seeds skeleton looks like in winter. Shoot in the garden after I picked the seeds few days before. The snow came and they looked even more beautiful!

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