Five things to do in the garden this week:

Fruit . Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius) is a cold-hardy member of the daisy family whose flower clusters consist of multiple florets, each of which produces an achene or tiny dry fruit that contains a single seed, from which safflower oil is extracted. Achenes are also seen on a strawberry, which is not technically a fruit but an enlarged flower receptacle. The fruits on a strawberry are also achenes, appearing as tiny, dry brown or white specks on the skin, each of which contains a single seed. Safflower is an attractive annual, growing to three feet tall. Its thistle-like silvery foliage complements one-inch inflorescences that contain as many as 180 tightly packed florets that transition from yellow to orange to red. Its long stems and everl

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