Rose Mini Bar is Expecting!

It's twins!! LOL

X

lol cute!

I have twins.. but they are not flowers! lol

X - very(!) nice pictures..this shows the outward and slighty downward curvature of the sepals clearly and this should be entered into the PlantFiles...

TTY,...

Ron

One of twins is getting ready to pop!

X

How are the babies doing???

Been harvested! Thanks for asking!

X

Congrats! I'm sure you will enjoy the offspring for years to come! LOL! It simply amazes me how many seeds some of these babies put out! (And how much the seed companies charge for them! They must hate DG/traders, huh?)

Indeed! I probably get 90% of plants & seeds from trades or just plain generous and thoughtful DG'ers.

X

Dito! It sure is nice to be able to have a sampling of so many things.

I find that the traded seeds are most frequently better germinaters that the bought seed.
I used to look at fall as a time of sadness that all the beautiful flowers were dying. Now I look forward to it as a time of rebirth.

Lol.. Windy in the fall I carry around envelopes in my car and will stop and knock on strangers doors to ask if I can harvest some of their seeds if I pass by something that has seeds on it! I got the reputation of the seed bandit in my neighborhood, stealthily sneaking around neighbors yards and harvesting seeds! Luckily they all have a sense of humour and really don't mind it.

X

Those seed pods are like little gifts and something to look forward to. I think I took up gardening because it gives me something to look forward to all year round.

A man who lives down the street, a couple of blocks away, grows these wonderful old fashioned double antique hollyhocks. We got to talking last Summer when I was walking the dog and he said I was welcomed to some seeds when the flowers were done. I never saw him after that - we obviously keep very different schedules. One night I was walking PekeBoo and I thought, hmmmm! Maybe I'll just meander over and pluck a few. As luck would have it, a cloud moved over to cover the moon, and we have no street lights where we live. Unfortunately, I also forgot the little gulley that runs in front of his hollyhock hill. Well, as they say, nothing ventured, nothing gained, so I proceeded to go in for the kill. Fell into the gully, ripped my pants, bloodied my knee, and broke the heel off my shoe!!! I did get the seeds, though - you see, as I was falling over, I grabbed for something (anything) to help break the fall. Turned out to be the seed pod. Didn't keep me from falling me, but I WILL have beautiful HH's!!!

A few weeks ago I ran into thisman as he was gardening. He's been trying to get some MG's to climb up an antique lantern post in his front yard, but he's been trouble getting his seeds to germinate. I ran home and got a couple of pots of mine and brought them to him. He was very grateful and asked what he could give me in return. I proceeded to tell him my story of woe. He was hysterical.

And now we are great gardening buddies!

Good for you Sequee, it helps to make friends in the gardening world. LOL It got so that my neighbor had most of my plants in her yard as I always gave her the ones I thinned out. This year the other neighbor has my orange cosmos growing in her yard. I gave her some seeds last fall when she admired how beautiful they were. Now she knows how easy they are to grow. LOL

I love orange cosmos! There is something so pleasing in their easy beauty.

I brought another neighbor an EB and 4 tomato plants - another gets 3-4 tomatoes every year, along with assorted other extras, yet another gets a plethora of my flowers - to which he responded this year with a trash bag full of canna and border dahlia bulbs (which are now in my yard, my bosses yard and my hairdresses yard)!

This gardening virus is highly contagious!!!