The annatto tree is quite pretty, with big green leaves and bright red, prickly seedpods. |
The hips of shrub roses make a colorful display, while southern magnolia has large seedpods with glowing red berries. |
Look out for Lepidium, a short herb with lacy spikes of pale pink flowers and rows of tiny oval seedpods. |
Both make allusive abstract forms that can suggest seedpods, cells or constellations, and both work in a generous scale with a sensitive touch. |
Sourwood decks itself with pendulous seedpods, and hazelnut displays dangling catkins in early spring. |
Late in the season, just as the seedpods begin to split, open a pod and gather the seeds. |