Wow! I was out giving my plants a VF-11 bath on Sunday and found all kinds of buds. Let's see... most exciting was nicholsonaie. I had just commented on GW about how I thought it was kind of a stingy bloomer. I found at least 6 peduncles budding up!! Until this last fall, I had grown this one up on the top shelf of the GH, where it would get very nicely red-veined leaves. But I would get just one or two blooming peduncles each year. This last fall, I decided to move the stingy-blooming Nick down to a bottom shelf, where I could admire "his" pretty foliage. Well, maybe that's just what he wanted! Six blooming peduncles! Wow!! I'm very excited!


Others I found budding up: verticillata variegata - several peduncles. Inconspicua has been budding up for awhile. Plain old verticillata has buds. Oh, and subquintuplinervis (did I spell thaqt right?) has a bud - tried to take a photo of it, but it looked like... uh, well... a phallic symbol (to put it politely!!) And latifolia's peduncle continues to develop without problems (so far...)


Yesterday, I went to see a lady who's husband was a member of our local C&S club. He passed away about a month ago, and she called me a week or so ago about coming to take his plants to find homes for them. I got to their home and she had obviously been crying. I felt so bad for her. She spent the next hour telling me such great stories about her wonderful husband...stories I hope to never forget. She had to show me his completely (and beautifully) restored 1964 Ford Gallaxy 500 (a car my ex and I had when we first got married - though our's was a '65 or '66...) Though it was kind of sad, it was also inspirational to know that two people can have such a great connection.


I can't believe it was so incredibly warm today! 75 or so. Wow... I had to put the screen in the south window of my GH because it was too warm in there. It's still open and I'm hoping I won't have to close it again. It's so hard to open/close, so I'm hoping it will stay warm (yeah, right!)