Friendship is like earthenware: once broken, it can be mended; love is like a mirror: once broken, that ends it ------ Josh Billings
Monday, September 30, 2013
Heliconia Success
A few months ago, I collected about twenty seeds of a low-growing tropical heliconia that was, despite frost, thriving outdoors in the open. I brought the seeds home and scattered them in a trough of soil, and now they have germinated. I read that they can take up to ten months to germinate, so it seems to be a miracle that the seeds have grown in the dead of winter. The species is Heliconia psittacorum. The picture on the right shows a flower on the plant from which I collected seed.
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