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Index of Subjects --001517573c42b23dc304db838525 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Good point, Fred. But how would anyone know whether that one particular plant will set seed or not? Assume there is a way. Picking the flowers may lead to other people thinking that picking is ok...setting an inadvertent bad example. Randy _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies of Antigonish County, NS. On 29 April 2013 13:43, Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> wrote: > 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. > ------------------------------**------------------------------ > Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad > Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm > Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm > Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.**blogspot.com/<http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/> > South Nation Basin Art & Science Book > http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_**book.htm<http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm> > RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0 > on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W > (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/ > ------------------------------**------------------------------ > > > --001517573c42b23dc304db838525 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">Good point, Fred. But how would anyone know whether that o= ne particular plant will set seed or not?<div><br></div><div style>Assume t= here is a way. Picking the flowers may lead to other people thinking that p= icking is ok...setting an inadvertent bad example.</div> <div style><br></div><div style>Randy</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"= ><br clear=3D"all"><div>_________________________________<br>RF Lauff<br>Wa= y in the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS.</div> <br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 29 April 2013 13:43, Fred Schueler <s= pan dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:bckcdb@istar.ca" target=3D"_blank">bc= kcdb@istar.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" st= yle=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class=3D"im">Quoting Carl Munden <<a href=3D"mailto:carl.munden@ns.= sympatico.ca" target=3D"_blank">carl.munden@ns.sympatico.ca</a>>:<br> <br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> 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 !!!<br> </blockquote> <br></div> * but when the flowers don't produce seed they may be a cost to the pla= nt 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 pho= tosynthesis" 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 transplan= tations.<br> <br> fred.<br> ------------------------------<u></u>------------------------------<br> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad<br> Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - <a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.= htm" target=3D"_blank">http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm</a><br> Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - <a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm"= target=3D"_blank">http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm</a><br> Daily Paintings - <a href=3D"http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/" ta= rget=3D"_blank">http://karstaddailypaintings.<u></u>blogspot.com/</a><br> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0South Nation Basin Art & Science Book<br> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm" target= =3D"_blank">http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_<u></u>book.htm</a><br> =A0 =A0 RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0<br> =A0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W<br> =A0 =A0<a href=3D"tel:%28613%29258-3107" value=3D"+16132583107" target=3D"_= blank">(613)258-3107</a> <bckcdb at <a href=3D"http://istar.ca" target= =3D"_blank">istar.ca</a>> <a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/" target=3D"_bla= nk">http://pinicola.ca/</a><br> ------------------------------<u></u>------------------------------<br> <br> <br> </blockquote></div><br></div> --001517573c42b23dc304db838525--
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