In the concrete plaza in front of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Brighton, a lamppost has an extra dash of color at its base. One of the plants in the hanging baskets on the post produced a seed that took advantage of a tiny crack in the cement and is blooming in this most unlikely spot. With temperatures in the 90s and no chance of this plant getting watered it still blooms its heart out. Humans think we control the planet. If we vanished, it wouldn’t be long for all of the things we’ve created to be enveloped by plants. Eventually, Nature always wins.
Taking over the earth one volunteer at a time! ;-)
I’m flabbergasted! One little seed and about 1/2″ of soil squeezed through cement with no water is producing lovely little blooms. Here in Seattle my flower seeds have soil galore, deluged with rain and still holding back!
That’s the problem, Barb. You’re coddling them. You have to NOT let flowering plants know you’re waiting for them to bloom. It freaks them out! They can’t stand the pressure of meeting expectations of others. The key to their growth is to ignore them and then they want to surprise you with buds and flowers and oodles of foilage.Read “War and Peace.” By the time you finish it, they’ll be in flower.
Thanks a bunch! I think it’ll take the Encyclopedia Brittanica, though. One good thing – the slugs gave up!