Silver Dollars in your Garden
"I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow." ~ David Hobson
Good morning!
I have an Abba song stuck in my head today...Money Money Money.....do you know this song?
It has been playing in my brain all week as I harvested our Money Plants. Some people consider the money plant a weed...but...I think it is a beauty! It is a biennial so it took two years to produce pods that look like silver dollars but when they did...WOW! It was worth the wait!
The money plant is "also known as Honesty, and Silver Dollar plants, of the genus Lunaria, and are named for their fruit, with pods that dry to flat silverish discs about the size of — you guessed it! — silver dollars." ~gardeningknowhow.com
I captured images of this plant from start to finish so you can follow along at your leisure...but first...COFFEE!
The blooms are purple and very prolific.
The foliage is variegated colors of purple and green…
The pods seemed to arrive overnight…blending into the leaves and trying not to be noticed…
….Bright green and already showing seeds inside.
“What is a weed? Ad plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson 1878