Spiral stemmed cyclamen seed pods and sunsets.

I wrote a few days ago about autumn flowers and among them cyclamens. While speaking with a dear friend I was told their winter garden tidy was due and one of the jobs was tidying cyclamen  plants. They explained how, by pulling off all the dead leaves, flowers and the little round things on spiral stalks, which they took to be a form of dead flower.

This led me to wondering how many other people do this and I need to say, if you see stems growing from your cyclamen that have formed spirals and have a rounded end on them, it is best to leave them alone if you can bear to, because these are seed pods which if left, will when ready burst open, scattering seeds from which you and your garden will benefit, in the form of more pretty cyclamen plants.

The sky was a beautiful pink prior to the sun setting.

As it set we were treated to a very interesting blue and grey sky speckled with pink.