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[Morning Glory]

My lawn meadow - nigella flowers in the foreground, bugloss (blue) and michelmas daisies

Do you get nigella seeds from the plants?

 

[creative]

Do you get nigella seeds from the plants?

I just sprinkled a free packet of the seeds....nothing happened for years and then....suddenly!!!

 

[creative]

I just sprinkled a free packet of the seeds....nothing happened for years and then....suddenly!!!

The photo doesn't really do it justice since they are not white but pale blue (I needed to lighten the lawn meadow up, during editing, so the colour faded as a consequence).

 

[Cinisajoy]

I've always loved natural gardens like that. English gardens as well. I tried to make my old, little house look like an English garden, even planting lemon thyme between the stepping stones so when you walked on it, you got that lemony aroma.

Alas, now I have a large but pretty standard suburban front yard.

Here's the video I mentioned of being locked out in the rain storm:

View: https://youtu.be/G9ceWQC4yaU

Where is the lightning?
That looked like a peaceful rain. Not a storm.
And I want your porch.

 

[Morning Glory]

I just sprinkled a free packet of the seeds....nothing happened for years and then....suddenly!!!

I meant can you collect nigella seeds to use in cooking from the plants.

 

[creative]

I meant can you collect nigella seeds to use in cooking from the plants.

Oh I see! No it is not nigella sativa but a blue variety. What do these seeds taste like? Cummin? Distinctive from cummin?

 

[buckytom]

Where is the lightning?
That looked like a peaceful rain. Not a storm.
And I want your porch.

No lightning, just pouring rain. It's a little hard to see. Turn up your speakers and you'll hear it.

 

[Morning Glory]

Oh I see! No it is not nigella sativa but a blue variety. What do these seeds taste like? Cummin? Distinctive from cummin?

So the seeds are edible from your plants?

 

[Cinisajoy]

No lightning, just pouring rain. It's a little hard to see. Turn up your speakers and you'll hear it.

So just rain. We rarely get that here. When we get rain, 99% of the time it is accompanied by thunder, lightning and wind. And depending on the time of year also hail.

 

[creative]

So the seeds are edible from your plants?

I have no idea. It never occurred to me that they could be. The seeds are not copious and prominent as in the nigella sativa though which is the only one that comes up as being edible (with a google search). So what do they taste like? Any different from cumin?

Here is a photo of the variety of my nigella flowers - as you can see, the seeds don't look pronounced or worth picking

 

[Morning Glory]

I have no idea. It never occurred to me that they could be. The seeds are not copious and prominent as in the nigella sativa though which is the only one that comes up as being edible (with a google search). So what do they taste like? Any different from cumin?

Nigella seeds don't really taste like cumin. I'd say they are a bit like onions and black pepper. Also known as kalonji seeds, they are wonderful in curry. Cumin has an earthier, more musky taste.

 

[epicuric]

Bluebells have come out in the woods.

 

[Morning Glory]

in the Marrakesh suite, House of Agnes hotel, Canterbury today.

 

[epicuric]

in the Marrakesh suite, House of Agnes hotel, Canterbury today.


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The girl is dressed for action - look out Canterbury!

 

[Cinisajoy]

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Bluebells have come out in the woods.

That is our state flower although we call them bluebonnets.
Just out of curiosity, do you also have the reddish pink ones?
Beside the road and in fields we call them Indian paint brushes. In my backyard, it is called a weed.