third generation

the daughter plant in the plastic pot ( first ) has produced a berry ( second )...which is only natural for a healthy plant...equally as healthy, it has produced a stolon that has reached about eight inches in length and was looking for a place to root...so i provided a portable one to extend the mobile reproductive process...it wouldn't do to have its engineered mobility tied down with new roots would it Jean?

perennial resilience

remember the stolon i stuck in a plastic flower pot buried in a garden bed to establish a portable daughter plant? and the fully rooted plant in a pot i dug up ten days ago? ( first photo ) well..that daughter plant is putting on a display of perennial resilience that defines why perennials can be very invasive ( something we will be seeing on the garden blog with chinese yams, walking onions, and the relentless jerusalem artichokes...but that is a different blog )..in ten days it has produced more leaves, a startlingly red berry, and a stolon about eight inches long looking for a place to root...i am tempted to produce another plastic flower pot and extend the experiment...we will see... i will talk it over with Jean and ponder her input.

another daughter comes to fruition

forty-eight days ago i placed the end of stolon in the first photo into a plastic flower pot i had filled with soil and buried up to the rim in the bed...today there is a healthy daughter plant ( second ) rooted in that pot...this plant itself has developed two of its own stolons...one has rooted i the bed and produce yet another daughter ( third )..the other is not rooted yet...so i cut the original stolon ( fourth ) and the one to the second daughter ( fifth ) and pulled the pot out of the bed ( sixth )..it is leafy and healthy and has a stolon ready to root ( seventh and eighth )...one of the imported wild strawberries has developed a stolon ( ninth ) and i am contemplating repeating this process.

Jean! a stolon!

after what appeared to be an abortive attempt at reproduction earlier, at least one of the imported wild strawberry plants has recovered enough to begin to reproduce...that is no doubt a new york state wild strawberry and there is no mistaking the stolon stretching out from the mother plant to find a place a suitable distance away to start a daughter...a pleasing after work find...the last photo is a berry on an established plant just to make sure we all know the season is ongoing...more as the imports reproduce...and...if we are patient...perhaps bloom.

some indepenedent berries

fourth of july is high summer in these parts and the berry season is booming along...the surviving six wild strawberry plants ( first six photos )from new york are all exhibiting new growth ( although the stolons from on that appeared a while back seem to have vanished...the plants have been abused by critters [ digging at other plants i believe] and that may be the culprit here ) and have produced new stems and leaves...i presume they are working more on roots than daughter plants at the moment and that an expansion of territory may be something for next season...still...we are a good distance from autumn...you never know...the established plants are producing away...singly ( seventh and eighth ) and in more social groups ( ninth and tenth )...there are still yellow blooms ( yellow Jean! ) ( eleventh and twelfth ) popping up which means more berries as the pollinators have their way with them...the seaon will go on until october if last year was nay indication...the birds will have their berries.