Basil Seeds

The basil plant has done really well this year.  Usually it flowers, makes seeds, and dies.  It's made seeds fairly well but has kept on growing despite the heat.  I've watered every day and sometimes twice so that probably helped keep it going.

The picture here is from after the flowers have pollinated and the seeds are forming.  It's not quite ready yet but soon there will be hundreds of seeds to save.  Basil has been consistent with how it produces and seeds so it's a no brainer that it would be one of the staple plants in the garden.

After the heat dies down and the green onion flowers again, it too is pretty much guaranteed to make seeds and possibly baby plants along side them.  This is in addition to splitting which they don't always seem to do.  Or if they do I don't realize it.  Of course only two green onion plants survived last winter's freezes.  Most of the new plants are either from seeds or new transplants from the store, a pretty reliable source for new plants.

The flowers have surprised me though.  We bought chrysanthemums and they have held on pretty well.  They have flowered throughout the summer, coming back when the weather cools a little from the 100's.  Of course that's been a few weeks but I already see new flowers forming and hope they bounce back hard with their color.