Clara brushed a strand of gray hair from her face. “Nope,” she said. “They planted themselves.” do zinnias reseed
She’d read the books. Yes, they were annuals. Yes, they could self-sow under the right conditions. But knowing a fact and witnessing a miracle were two different things. Clara brushed a strand of gray hair from her face
She told him the story of the dried stalks, the winter winds, and the little seeds that had waited. She showed him how the seed heads worked—how each petal was actually a tiny tube containing a seed, how the wind and rain had knocked them loose, how they’d nestled into the soil and known, all on their own, when to wake up. they were annuals. Yes