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Eliza Waters 
Looks a bit surreal. Nice shot!
Thank you, Sandy. They are ready for lift-off!
Wow! Amazing
Thank you, Karen!
Beautiful! They are preparing to take flight!!
Thank you, Donna… like fairies! 🙂
I enjoy the tangled silkiness of these seeds.
Thank you, Anne. It is quite spectacular when it bursts out of its pod.
So pretty!!!! Great shot Eliza.
Thank you, Dawn!
Only a pleasure dear Eliza
Fascinating!
Thanks, Cindy!
Chaotic beauty! Lovely composition, Eliza! There’s a pleasing resemblance to smoke wisps. I noticed a few still lingering in our garden yesterday.
Thank you, Steve!
A wonderfully sinuous airy image
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Milkweed is magical!
Agreed! My patch has grown with each passing year. The feathered seeds are flying away!
Lovely capture💐🧡🍂
Thank you, Val! x
Wonderfully embraced. These milkweed seeds are full of beautiful promises…..for years to come.
Thank you, Alice. Those seeds hold much promise, indeed. 🙂
How pretty. Is it as soft and silky as it looks? 😃
Thank you, Cathy. Yes, it is very soft and they fly away like fairies in the breeze! It was once collected for stuffing in life-vests and cushions, but fell out of favor when poly fibers were invented.
That’s interesting. There must have been more of it about in those days.
Yes, there were lots, but the advent of herbicides has nearly eradicated them in most of America. Toxic to livestock, farmers hate the plant and were more than eager to eliminate them. A huge movement on the part of gardeners and community groups are trying to plant more milkweed, and fingers crossed, they will be able to bring monarch numbers back up.
Beautiful, whimsical shot. A friend/client of mine has an area full of milkweed and she collects the eggs laid and puts them in her butterfly tent and hatches them. I get to help when I pet sit. My only butterfly client (as well as her cats, of course.)
Thank you, Debra. I love that you sometimes pet sit monarch larva!
It was really fun learning all about it
This is so beautiful! Well done, Eliza. ♥♥♥
Thank you, Robin!
Such feathery delight!
Yes! 🙂 Do you have milkweed in Sweden?
Such a lovely picture, Eliza. I also appreciate the information about milkweed as a larval host for the Monarch butterfly. It’s easy to see why that would be as I look at the picture of that soft, yet safe place for those larvae to be and to grow and thrive. Beautiful.
Thank you, Carrie. It is also a host plant for other invertebrates and the flowers (that preceded these seeds) are adored by pollinators. They even smell like honey!
Wow! Thank you. I’m inspired!
Also…city girl here. Such wisdom and knowledge wasn’t part of my exposure in those years. Hoping to find a new home with spaces and places for much more than container gardening. 😊
A small milkweed that you could container grow is Asclepias tuberosa, widely available at nurseries. Imagine having beautiful striped larva to watch over? (Yes, they do eat the plant, sometimes down to nubs, but that is the point, yes? 🙂 ) Then they form jade green chrysalises nearby from which emerge the gorgeous monarch adults two weeks later. Pure magic!
Thank you, Eliza! Will definitely follow up on that!
You captured the milkweed beautifully. 😊
Thank you, Pepper, it is a photogenic plant. 🙂
I’m perplexed that I haven’t encountered this sight this year. It could be timing, but I haven’t seen many of the plants that produce these wonderful pods and seeds. There’s nothing more fun to photograph than these seeds, and you did a wonderful job.
Thank you, Linda. Yours most likely release at a different time. Our pods release about 4 months after blooming.
One problem this year is that I didn’t even see many plants, for a variety of reasons: mowing, paving, lack of rain, and so on. I suspect if I’d been able to get out to some of the prairies farther north it would have been a different story.
Eliza, what a beautiful picture of milkweed. An abstract swirl of seeds yet immediately recognizable. One to frame.
Thank you kindly, Laurie!
Beautiful photo, Eliza and a great reminder of the importance of leaving seeds and collecting some for the future.
Thank you, Tina– the kid in each of us loves to release those seeds skyward!
Thanks for sharing. Monarch caterpillars ONLY eat milkweed. In fact, the monarch butterfly is also known as the “milkweed butterfly.”
Yes, it is unfortunate that use of herbicides has reduced this vital food source.
So whimsical and beautiful Eliza – thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Cathy!
This is lovely.
Thank you, Flower!
Heh, bad-hair day. 😀
😀 Seems like it!
These look like angel wings! Thanks, Eliza, for the reminder about collecting those milkweed seeds so we can grow our Monarch population.
Thank you, Debbie!
So artistic! It makes me think of planktons floating in the sea.
Thank you, Kris! 🙂
What a shot! It is one of my favorite plants going back to childhood.
Thank you, those pods are irresistible to both kids and adults!
I love milkweed both for photographing and playing with. 😉 Beautiful capture. I always look forward to your Silent Sundays!
Thank you very much, Julie!
I shall start sowing!
Yay, the monarchs will appreciate it!
I planted some last late spring to no avail. Will try now in the fall!
Asclepias tuberosa, the orange butterfly weed, is heat and drought tolerant, so may do well for you.
Wonderful photo, Eliza and an important reminder!
Thank you, Belinda!
Love this. Quite abstract?
Yes, thank you, Diana!
Such a gorgeous photograph Eliza! 💛
Thank you, Xenia!
Ethereal and wonderful! Reminds me of a sea creature.
Thank you, Ellen. Yes, a tentacled beast, perhaps? 🙂
Stunning Eliza. Thank you.
MJ
Thank you, MJ!
Glorious photograph. I’ll try to scatter some seeds.
Thank you, Susie… the monarchs will like that!
And I’ll be pleased to help them out. Very few monarchs came by this year.
Yay, milkweed seeds!
🙂
Wow! What a beautiful capture, so ethereal…
Thank you, Kim!
My pleasure!
Perfect blend of earthy and ethereal…
Thank you, Barbara!
In my opinion it is difficult to take a bad photograph of milkweed. But, also in my opinion, this one is the most beautiful I can remember seeing. The soft lighting and the wonderful green background…many things all come together. As another commenter said, it would make a great print. 🙂
Thank you very much, Mic!
What a gorgeous and magical capture!🙂
Thank you, Susan! 🧡
What a beautiful photo and a reminder that seedy plants can be just as lovely as when in flower!
Thank you, Carol. It is so photogenic at this stage.
your shots are always stunning Eliza
How kind, thank you very much, Sylvia!
Beautiful close-up detail!
Thank you, Denise!
Fantastic shot! A couple weeks ago, I collected my Asclepias Tuberosa seeds and sowed them on another part of your backyard.
Thanks, Hien. I hope they grow well for you (and the butterflies)!