My backyard garden is pretty small, and after 10 years, it's getting full, so I haven't been adding lots of new plants like I used to. One new perennial I did add this year was swamp milkweed, which is apparently different from regular milkweed. It seemed to do pretty well over the summer; it grew to about 3 ft tall, and one of the plants had pretty purply-pink flowers on it.
After the flowers had faded, I thought about deadheading it, but then I got distracted by other things. So just the other day I was looking at the plant and noticed these really funky-looking seed pods. I wonder if, when they dry out, they'll split open and be full of kapok, like regular milkweed? It will be interesting to see.
And "Funky Pods" would be an excellent name for a rock band.
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I also think that Apple should come out with a new "Funky Pod." With a name like that, I'd be one of the first people to buy it!
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