I recieved seeds from a trade, love in a puff.Which I thought was the same as love in a mist.Well after I had several strong plants, I had to riped them out.I found out they were invasive, and just nothing to look at really.However thier seeds are lovely.Just a bit Smaller than 4:oos, round, jet black with a perfect white heart. Looks like someone painted the heart on, just so sweet.

Today I was cleaning some seed heads from short Bachelor Buttons. It was harder than I thought it would be (lots of flowerheads were empty) and I was feeling frustrated. Then I leaned back in the chair and really look at the dish of seeds I had gotten for a minute - so interesting. Pale with just a touch of blue/gray at their cores and these funny little "hats" on top. Got out a magnifing glass and really LOOKED. And remembered it is a miracle how mother nature works - this seed will be a plant, that plant will make more seed, the circle is amazing to me.

Nancy

Rose Campion... I love the way the seeds pour out of the little cups..

Butterfly bush seeds amaze me. Not much bigger than dust, and they grow up into these huge beautiful bushes that the butterflies just love. In fact, all the seeds that are tiny and dustlike -- petunias, snapdragons, foxglove. How can such an itsy bitsy thing have everything inside it needed to make a whole plant?

I agree with dawiff about the tiny seeds; they've always fascinated me for that reason. But this year, my fascination is with bean seeds - most specifically, dwarf runner bean "Hestia", which has beautifully colored seeds. In fact, many bean seeds are beautifully colored - I can see why Jack might have traded his cow for them.

I have fun collecting moss roses. I like it when the whole little pod comes off & then you open it there are a hundred little metallic seeds!
Maggie

I like to use a magnifier on seeds, too. They're so amazing! Some seeds have really neat texture, like larkspur.

I, too, am amazed at what will grow from those tiny, tiny seeds. Also, I've been collectig cosmos seeds, and those seeds are so long and brittle I think they're actually a hindrance to propagation! Yet the plant is not extinct...

I love collecting four o'clocks, rose campion, silene armeria, poppy and foxglove. They're so easy. I love shaking or rolling a handful of four o'clock seeds around in my hand, or sweet pea--those seeds are heavy!

Hosta seeds are weird--they look like black wings that fell off of wasps, flying ants, or termites (I once worked in a building infested with termites) I spilled some of those seeds on the floor, and much later found a few stragglers, and really did think they were insect wings for a short time. You could really freak somebody out that way!

And I have to agree that the love-in-a-puff seeds are just so pretty. Scarlet runner bean and hyacinth bean vine, too. The other beans, I don't know. Drippy, maybe we need to trade for some other neat vine seeds so I can offer my opinion? ;)

I am glad to see that I am not the only one who is so intrigued by seed collecting and seed forms.
My favorites are
4:00 I love how its like picking little black fruit sitting on the bush

Hollyhocks, they are sch an interesting donut shaped collection

Breadseed poppies and others with the large seed pods.

What fun!

This is really my first year at collecting seeds. Lupines were easy...my Sundown Echinacea is baffeling me. Poppies were fun but my favorite so far has been the Silver Cup Lavatera. I wonder if how this plant makes seeds is where the name comes from....seems to be a cup with a black round cover...under the cover are about 5-6 little seeds. Pretty cool. The malvas are fun too. The seed pods on my white datura are scarey to say the least. Collecting seeds has been just as fun as planting them.
Bonny

I enjoy seeds that are very easily identified as seed. The uncertainty of tiny dust like seed doesn't make me happy. [g] I like many of the seed already mentioned for collecting, but I would have to say my favorites are those that are fragrant when you collect. Two that come to mind are Agastache Honey Bee Blue that smell like root beer when you are collecting the seed, and Bronze Fennel that smells like anise. Just love that experience! :-)

I like marigold seeds - half black and half tan.

Nigella - fun pods!

Fern Spores.

Today I figured out how to collect balsam impatiens and those were fun. You just rub your two fingers over it and it they are ready they pop.

Yesterday I was collecting spent flower heads from Lobelia Blue Selection. I had only one plant that made it and I had let all the flowers go to seed in order to have lots of seed for next year. I snipped the long dried stem of little pods off and brought them to my kitchen, then ran my hand down the spine to dislodge the little pods into a bag to shake out the seeds. The air filled with the most wonderful deep, rich lemon scent and my hand was scented for about an hour - - very interesting! Anyone else collecting seed from these?

I didn't actually end up with very much seed, but the lemony scent made it worth doing!

Nancy

I really like all seeds as long as I can find them!
I have yet to find the seeds on my Bluet, I think I'm most excited when I recognize seeds for what they are and grab a cup!
I starting to suspect that my peony and my bicolor butterfly bush don't set seeds, which bums me out but there's plenty more to gather so...
:)

Well I think the most fun ones to harvest were the Lunaria!

As prariemoom said, it's helpful when you can easily recognize the seed.

As far as my "favorite" as this time, I'd go for columbine - so easy.

Big seeds that you need to file or chip first, then soak. (I realize not always done in WSing) Sometimes during the soaking, a point will start to grow. Its neat to watch.

I am having fun collecting my Rose colored impatiens, popping and curling around.

I love the seed heads of clematis, that look like green sea anemones when ripening or whirling galaxies or fireworks when mature.
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Dictamnus seed pods look like fuzzy bean pods, quite strange. The seeds of malva 'Zebrina' really do look like tiny cheese wheels, and break apart into cute little "slices." The seeds of cannas look like perfect brown/black spheres - I can see where it got the nickname "Indian shot" from the way the seeds resemble old round lead bullets or buckshot. (From India, BTW, not Native Americans.) Dandelion seeds are fun to look at with their fuzzy parasols on the ends, even though I know every one could be a real nuisance in my yard. I could go on and on!

Laurel

I like Cleome seeds. They look like tiny snails.
Lunaria seeds have pretty shape and markings.
I found seeds of Bachelor's Button/Centaurea cycanus funny too as Nan said. Very pretty coloring with that funny tuft of hair at one end. They look like squids. Yummy... lol

How do you collect seeds of your favorite petunia? I cut nylons into tiny squares and little strips, wrap a seed pod with a square & tie it around the stem with a strip. :-)

I too like seeds that are easily identifiable and accessible. So far, my favorites have been morning glory, hollyhock, and poppy seeds. The morning glory seeds are so easy, and the hollyhocks and poppy seeds are so fun. This is my first year seed saving, so I may have more favorites to add as summer goes on.

I am intrigued by so many! I like the ones, such as Canterbury bells and rose campion, that pour from their little cups. I like balsam because after it explodes, the seeds are practically self-cleaning. All you have to do is pick out the little pod curls. I like the ones such as dill, Queen Anne's lace, and 4 o'clocks that sit on top of the stem and say, "Pick me! Pick me!" My favorite today is blackberry lily. They're so beautiful, easy to clean, and really do look like a little cluster of blackberries. The only ones I don't enjoy are the dusty ones such as strawflower and ageratum because they're nearly impossible to clean.

pitimpinae, on the petunia seeds ... after the pod opens, I pinch it off at the base, usually with the little green spikes attached (not leaves but the green at the base of the pod ... don't know correct name) and put them in a small bowl or cup. I leave them for a day or so and swish the pods around a few times. Then I pour them through a small strainer with a bowl under it. All those seeds, including the ones that stuck to the green spiky things just pour into the bowl. I wouldn't have the patience to tie them the way you do.