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Quoting Carl Munden <carl.munden@ns.sympatico.ca>:
> Another GOOD reason to let Pink Lady's-Slippers be is that it takes
> 12 years from seed germination to its first year of flowering !!!
* but when the flowers don't produce seed they may be a cost to the
plant once they're up (provided the flowers are picked as a stem,
without pulling leaves and all). The plants may be able to "settle
down to photosynthesis" once an unpollinated bloom is picked - along
the lines of gardeners "dead-heading" spent blooms. I believe the real
danger to these plants is would-be gardeners digging them up for
doomed transplantations.
fred.
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