Laura’s garden notes: Go ahead and “go to seed”

Laura Young news@greenepublishing.com Since the mid 1800s, Americans have used the phrase “gone to seed” figuratively as a way to disparage something or someone that has, according to the Collins English Dictionary, “become much less attractive, healthy or efficient.” The Miriam-Webster Dictionary gives the idiom even more negative connotations of “dilapidated” or “neglected.”  I've used the phrasing myself more than a time or two, for example to describe a “seedy”