Drift seeds

When I was in Ft. Lauderdale, I went to a church picnic at John U. Lloyd state park and beachcombed with my kids for a while.

We found some pretty cool plants - including some edibles - right there along the shore line. Hog plums, sea grapes, Bidens alba, some shoreline beans... great stuff.

But something that really caught my imagination (YES I KNOW I'M A FREAK, CHRISSY, THANKS FOR NOTICING) were the various "sea beans" or "drift seeds" we found among the seaweed on the shore.

The beach beans in the pods were found by one of my sons (good find!), but the rest of these we found in the surf. The two seeds on the top left are tropical almonds, then there's a "hamburger bean," then two "sea coconuts," one in its husk and the other without it.

I find it amazing that these seeds were designed to be dispersed by the ocean... what a testimony to God's creativity.

Of course, me being the plant nerd that I am, I couldn't be satisfied by just picking up a few seeds and putting them on a shelf as curios. Nope - I'm now trying to germinate these suckers.

Awwwwww yeah.


I'll give you an update and some pics when I get a chance. The beach beans are already coming up and the hamburger bean has sprouted a root.

Survival Gardener REPRESENTIN'!!!