flower seed

I wasn't really planning on trying to save flower seed, but since a lot of my Tithonia and Cosmos made seed heads while they were left to themselves, I gathered them up anyway. They both make prickly shapes. The Cosmos were easy to collect; I just brush or pick the dark seeds off.

Tithonia were a bit trickier. Their prickles can hurt!

I found the easiest way to get the seeds out (which I couldn't even really see) was just to knock the prickly heads on the tabletop, and the seeds fell out. They have such curious shapes.