Grats on the first bloom of 2024, Andrea!
Lovely falls, Bea!
I hadn't been out the back of the house since before Christmas, between the holidays, the rain, and fatigue. I was forced to go out there today to leave a check for my garden helper, and I took a very quick peek at a few things.
I was disappointed that the "Token of Hope" white TB seedling which maiden bloomed 2022 on New Year's Eve, shows no sign of a stalk. It was potted and moved from its original location, so maybe it didn't care for that? I hope I get some kind of bloom out of it this year.
Although that seedling did not bloom again on New Year's Eve, I did get another good token in the form of a waxed amaryllis which I had started growing weeks earlier. It was meant to bloom for Christmas, but I got and started it late, so it didn't even start to open until New Year's Eve. This image is from a few days ago:
That was then.... getting back to today, I checked up on my 3 6-packs of iris seeds that I had planted, and I was overjoyed to find 2 seedlings up, 1 in each of 2 TB crosses.
Given my horrible luck the past few years trying to sprout iris seeds, even if these are all that I get, so long as they make it to bloom, I'll (try to) be grateful. (Both are from my yellow CHARISMATIC seedling; all 3 crosses were aimed at rebloom, so we'll see what happens. I'd expect all the seedlings to be some shade of yellow, but who knows.
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As a final token of hope and signs of new beginnings, there is definitely life in the potted (but then apparently dead) DRAKENSBERG APRICOT daisy. I'm not entirely sure, at this small stage, if the leaf is right or not (there will always be weeds), but it's hopeful.
