A reason not to be very tidy

I thought I'd show you a patch on my allotment first. 

Quite a mess, right? It's so messy you can hardly see what is in the picture. This was my spring flower patch and now is full with seedheads which is why I haven't touched it yet. No doubt marigold, love-in-a-mist and cornflower seedlings will soon emerge after I clear this bed of both the old flowers and the weeds which I hope to do in the coming week or so. Today however I also took the opportunity to collect some of the seeds, some of which I'll sow in the next week (along with some bought packets) and some of which I'll sow in Spring. 

I also collected some ageratum seeds. This annual is still flowering wonderfully well in a range of colours (blue/purple/mauve/white/pink) and has already produced quite a bit of seeds. As I am not interested in a specific colour collecting my own seeds makes absolute sense.

Of course I didn't just collect seeds on the allotment, but also flowers. For one vase I picked ageratum, cleome, cosmos and dahlia's. I also picked some Cobaea scandens Alba and combined it with dahlia Karma Choc and rosemary. 

I love the results, have a look below!