Friday, August 6, 2010

Flowers on the cob?

The girls and I attended Oakwood's Summer Series tonight and learned a lot about flowers, their parts, and how they reproduce.   I was really surprised that flowers are pollinated not just by bees, hummingbirds, and dragonflies, but at night by moths and also by the wind.   Something that I found intriguing, was that while corn is a vegetable, that it reproduces just as a flower does, and that every hair on a cob of corn leads to an individual kernel of corn or 'seed'.  

The summer series is nearly over.  I am going to be sad to see it end.