Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Jean keeps having daughters

we will attempt to apply ockham's razor and simplify the explanation...so we will start from simple and build to complex hopefully not creating confusion...this mother plant ( top )one of the surviving original twelve imports in the bed on the south side of the house has produced a single daughter plant ( second )...simple enough...
this transplanted daughter was produced by a second of the three originals which i have not included in these photos ( which i am sure she will be understanding about )..so far two daughters...
this mother plant in the east bed produced the transplanted daughter in the blurry photo which has produced what amounts to a granddaughter ( thanks for clarifying that Jean )...so three daughters and a granddaughter...
that same mother plant in the east bed has produced two more daughters besides the transplanted one so we have five daughters...
one of those two daughters has produced a daughter of its own...so...two granddaughters now...and...
that granddaughter has produced a great granddaughter...three mothers...five daughters...two granddaughters..and a great granddaughter...what was three original plants now number eleven in four generations...and...
the daughter that produced the granddaughter and great granddaughter has another stolon emerging...we'll see if the weather holds.

Sunday, October 1, 2017

one of Jean's daughters has moved...

...in with one of her sisters...
the daughter plant i pinned in the buried flower pot a few weeks ago has taken root and is putting out a third leaf so it is time to find and in ground home...
the fist daughter i transplanted is doing fine and producing a daughter of its own...
so i dug a suitably sized hole and laced it with some compost...
so i snipped the stolon with my scissors...
and pulled the flower pot out of the bed...
i freed the plant from the pot carefully, planted her about eight inches or so away from her sister, and made sure to water...it is october, however there is nothing like frost in the forecast for the next ten days ( in fact the high tomorrow is expected to be eighty degrees fahrenheit...and warmer tuesday ) so she should have ample time to adjust to her new home.