My Winter Seed Pods

My wisteria tree is like something out of a dream in the winter.

These are the pods and in the spring they dry up and explode, spreading hard brown seeds everywhere. I hear them hitting the side of the house as they pop and it rains seeds. I pick the seeds up from all over the yard. I have been trying to figure out a use for them as they are quite pretty.

This is a dried seed pod from my Yucca plant. There are small black seeds nestled in the bottom on the pod.