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A week ago I planted 20 seeds in 10 peat cups in my tabletop greenhouse. These were:Convolvulus called Blue Enchantment. Yesterday there were 20 beautiful, healthy sprouts!! Today they are even BIGGER!! I feel like a new mother who just gave birth... to 20 babies??!! .. It's spring in my apartment!!
* * * * Some hearts, like evening primroses, open more beautifully in the shadows of life. Shirley's Secret Room Plants: 9518 | From: Cincinnati Ohio | Registered: Nov 2006
| Seeded: 71.72.204.28
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If I had known they would sprout so easily I wouldn't have planted so many!! Every one of the seeds came up!!
* * * * Some hearts, like evening primroses, open more beautifully in the shadows of life. Shirley's Secret Room Plants: 9518 | From: Cincinnati Ohio | Registered: Nov 2006
| Seeded: 71.72.204.28
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I'm over in my table-top greenhouse topic planning out how I'm going to grow and display them inside!
* * * * Some hearts, like evening primroses, open more beautifully in the shadows of life. Shirley's Secret Room Plants: 9518 | From: Cincinnati Ohio | Registered: Nov 2006
| Seeded: 71.72.204.28
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That is great Shirley! Can't wait to see some pics when you get that new camera!
* * * * All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. Plants: 5156 | From: Minnesota | Registered: Mar 2006
| Seeded: 63.225.148.86
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Yeah, right! They'll be grown and dead by then. That would be ugly pics!
* * * * Some hearts, like evening primroses, open more beautifully in the shadows of life. Shirley's Secret Room Plants: 9518 | From: Cincinnati Ohio | Registered: Nov 2006
| Seeded: 71.72.204.28
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Oh, they are getting so tall already!! One is almost touching the top of the dome!!! In a couple of days I might have to take it out and put it in a tiny pot!! He's the leader of the pack..the 'head honcho'...and then I've got the little runt of the litter
* * * * Some hearts, like evening primroses, open more beautifully in the shadows of life. Shirley's Secret Room Plants: 9518 | From: Cincinnati Ohio | Registered: Nov 2006
| Seeded: 71.72.204.28
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I did pot the biggest one in a small pot. the rest I finally had to take out of the greenhouse. They all fell over, so I had to put a glass over each one! (there went all my drinking glasses! I guess they now belong to my plants.) They stood right back up when I did that. They have thick, strong stems. The Impateins are so thickly sprouted I am going to have to separate small amounts, somehow, so they don't choke each other out. My columbine hasn't sprouted yet, but the packages said about a month, so I'm not fretting yet.
Oh, and today I bought two new plants! A bromeliad called Carly; beautiful flower in it's center; and a Shamrock Oxalis. The shamrocks are a good two inches across! I never saw anything like it. They are dark, dark purple (that is why I got it!!) and loaded with lavendar blooms, which, when I brought it home and watered it, they started opening; so cute!
I ordered seeds for a sweetwilliam and viola.
* * * * Some hearts, like evening primroses, open more beautifully in the shadows of life. Shirley's Secret Room Plants: 9518 | From: Cincinnati Ohio | Registered: Nov 2006
| Seeded: 71.72.204.28
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Yeah!! Carly! That is what name is at the top of the picture on the stick, stuck in the pot. Under the picture of the bloom it says VRIESEA. My plant has a beautiful bloom in the center. It's colors are red-orange, orange, and yellow; just like the picture!!
* * * * Some hearts, like evening primroses, open more beautifully in the shadows of life. Shirley's Secret Room Plants: 9518 | From: Cincinnati Ohio | Registered: Nov 2006
| Seeded: 71.72.204.28
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