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Another Good Reason To Leave a Few Seedheads

We’ve probably got about three inches of snow. Not nearly enough to really get out there and make snow forts and have snowball fights, but enough to make the kids rabid to get out there. So the girls bundled up and made this cute little tabletop snowman in our back yard.

Cutest. Snowman. Ever.

The nose is a sprig from our Christmas tree trimmings. The mouth, eyes, and buttons are garlic chive seeds from the couple of clumps that I didn’t deadhead at the end of summer. I leave some of them because they look so pretty dusted with snow, and I was hoping for a couple of good photos of them this year. But, I think this is even better

I’ve written before about  leaving seedheads in the garden for winter interest, as well as for feeding wildlife during the winter. Leave it to my kids to remind me, yet again, that we should have fun in the garden, too.

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5 comments to “Another Good Reason To Leave a Few Seedheads”

jodi (bloomingwriter), December 21st, 2009 at 8:57 am:

• Definitely a cute snowman, Colleen! And most assuredly a good reason to leave seedheads behind, for those who have young’uns. My young’un is grown, so our seedheads are purely for the birds and for our winter-interest enjoyment, both of which are definitely fun also–but not as fun as watching children frolic in the snow.

Dave, December 21st, 2009 at 9:44 am:

• The seed heads are a neat idea! Maybe sometime this winter we’ll have enough snow to do something similar! They called for snow this weekend but nothing came.

commonweeder, December 22nd, 2009 at 5:43 pm:

• The grandchildren will be coming but unless we have more snow they are going to be sliding around on the icy snow surface and not building snowmen. However, that is just a different kind of fun!

Chookie, December 26th, 2009 at 6:43 am:

• LOL, I’m afraid your line of reasoning won’t work here!! And best wishes to you and your family for Christmas!

MrBrownThumb, December 27th, 2009 at 1:43 am:

• LOL That is awesome. I’d never would’ve thought about doing this, but I’m sooo going to copy the idea.

  I hope you don’t sue me when I publish my book on making snowmen with seeds in the garden.

  :0)

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