There are so many forums here -- don't know how everyone manages to keep up! This looks like a lively one, so I'll stick with it for awhile.
A quick question -- while I do have some blooms on older plants (including an unnamed one we've had for ages that is obviously a "roller" -- little heads sending up new colonies all over the place), my seedlings have a ways to go before I can think of doing a breeding program with them (talk about teenage pregnancies?)... Has anyone ever kept seedlings indoors over the winter for the first year? Or do they truly need the cold temperatures from the start? They are small enough they will need to be sheltered -- one of our pounding thunderstorm cloudbursts would have them all washed out -- and I'm wondering if a compromise such as keeping them in a cold basement would work?
I can't believe how tiny some of them still are at 6 months and I'm wondering how tiny some of these guys can remain? I do notice (looking through the magnifier) that the little ones are almost all quite fuzzy. Do some take more than a year to get their full growth?
I'm still looking and reading so hopefully will have more intelligent questions in the future. Today was "end of month" closing out the books so this is the best I can do with plants...
A bit later... Just checked my e-mail and find a friend who likes to indulge my idiosyncracies is sending me some semps from a Youngs Garden Center. I sent her a picture of this Emily and am thrilled she more than picked up on the hint. I'm hoping this is the Emily Jan Soućek photographed in Czechoslovakia; quite different from Andre Smits Emily... I'm looking at their selection and of course am tempted by a few more -- they seem to have quite q few recent EU imports. I fell like the person who says "Get behind me, Satan," and of course, he gets behind and he pushes...
Go with God!
