I got on a gardening kick recently. I think it started with some seeds I
\nbought impusively while on vacation in Hawaii. My favorite flower was Bird
\nof Paradise and I love coffee, so I was going to grow them both (dream it:
\ngrow, roast and brew my own coffee… lol). I’d never grown anything
\nbefore. I’m still waiting for them to sprout – it turns out that coffee
\ngerminates for 6 months().<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Anyways, having started there it expanded to Chives, Mint, Tyme, Chile
\nPeppers, Red and California Poppies. Then I bought a couple bromiliads and
\na couple plants I haven’t been able to identify yet (including a bulb with
\nthe most incredible orange flowers). It was all very Darwinian in
\nphilosophy because space is limited to a window in my apartment: a whole
\npacket in one little pot and whatever takes over gets to live. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The edible stuff that wasn’t killed by trial-and-error was killed by that
\nhear wave a week ago (except the Chiles). I was a little sad, having
\ncoaxed them along. But I’ve got a germination tray of two type of coffee
\n(Arabica and Kona) and there’s Hops, Chocolate Vine (it has flowers which
\nsmell like chocolate!) stratifying in the refrigerator. The Desert Rose
\nseeds arrived in the mail last week.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
It’s all a little been a botany experiment. Part of the exercise is to
\nlearn enough about the plants from the net to take germinate, grow and
\npropagate them. I searched for several hours for seeds from a purple plant
\ncoffee which I read about. No dice, but I learned plenty about the global
\ncoffee trade.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Comparing the dried flowers from the unidentified-orange-flower-bulb with
\nthe desert rose seeds leads me to suspect I may have successfully got it
\nto seed (I did pollinate it). I’d be delighted to have a few more pots of
\nthat little wonder.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
So there you go. One of my most recent projects is discovering my green
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