Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Black Sage at Dusk


The black sage is in bloom--a native wild plant--what a very beautiful bush this is with a delicate ring of flowers around each bud. When the buds are full of seeds you can shake out the seeds and eat them--I found this out on a nature walk--but the seeds don't really taste like much--I wonder what kinds of vitamins or minerals are in the seeds. The native American Indians toasted and ground the seeds.

2 comments:

  1. so pretty! the only flowers happening here now are daffodils, and little blue snowdrops. but the snow is GONE except for ONE dwinding drift out by the chicken coop!

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