Dried poppy pods are often considered ornamental, no jokes here. However, they have a much wider range of uses, beyond their ...

If you grew up in the '80s or '90s, you may remember cookie-sized, woody lotus flower seed pods intermingled with potpourri in grandparents' homes. But beyond the dish of dried flowers, the pods were ...

Each seed pod can hold more than 200 seeds, which, in nature, eventually shake out through those slits. (Note: There are many poppy varieties ... we commonly petals, which are there to attract ...

The clusters of seed pods hold their own as winter ornaments. ... dried seed pods that are outstanding and a broad, dense shape that makes a particularly aesthetic shelter from the sun.

Baking with poppy seeds and using the pods in flower arrangements are both common but few people know that growing a certain kind of poppy plant or possessing them is illegal in the United States.

Once the flower head or seed pod has dried you will want to cut it from the plant with the bag still around it and then carefully remove the pod or flower head while shaking the seeds out into the ...

Technique 2: For this method, use an empty woven plastic feed bag that holds about 35 pounds of black-oil sunflower seed. Transfer the dried pods from the paper grocery bags into the empty ...