seeds

i expected seeds at some point...i mean sure the yams are rootstock perennials and the jerusalem artichokes are tuberous perennials...but there are seven different strains of annual and perennial grasses growing on campus ( and eight in my back yard since the zea perennis came up) so some were bound to produce them...i even expected some in june...the winter wheat un the middle photo should be ripe by the end of the month or so ( i don't find alot of exactitude in the garden...things go at their own, sometimes surprising, pace...there is an element of uncertainty that teaches patience )...those were expected...the spring wheat has produced seedheads both on campus and at home but shouldn't ripen til after july...those surprised me...i've already discussed the intermediate wheat grass in the top photo...i just wanted to post a halfway decent one and it took until today to produce one...but the day's big surprise is the eastern gamagrass seeds ( bottom photo...that's spring wheat in the background...you can tell it's gamagrass seeds by the feather-like structures at the base of the seedhead[no i don't know what they're called...more research] every photo i found of gamagrass seedheads online had the very same structures)...i didn't figure on those plants producing seeds until 2012...but that's what is happening...perhaps those two clumps are a bit pampered compared to gamagrass grown for silage and the one is intent on creating another generation to fill the niche ( i am told that gamagrass is as relentless as the jerusalem artichokes...only slower...the gardens may have the irresistable force meeting the immovable object...wonder if there will be symbiosis or just war)...whatever the reason they are there...this project is nearing the end of its second year and almost every time i go to the garden i find something that makes me think about cycles and hidden variables and, on occasion, astonishes or elates me ( the teosinte for instance...still geeked...refrained form posting photos...wanted to )...one day it may become routine...i hope not...we all need something that keeps us moving.