A few weeks ago I repotted some of my hanging baskets with some geranium cuttings. Last week when I was putting them out in the rain for a drink, I noticed this strange plant growing in amongst the cuttings. Mmmm......................... now I wonder what this could be & how it got there.
I have two theories:-
1. There was something in the potting mix that I used to repot the geraniums.
2. It is the product of some seed that I have collected & put in there at some stage.
Now, there are problems with both these theories. A second plant the same as this has appeared under my lemon tree. If the seed was in the new potting mix, then how did it get under the lemon tree as well? If I had put seeds that I collected into the basket, then that would have been some time ago, and they would have gone out with the old potting mix, which got thrown onto the garden. I did, however, have old cocoanut fibre lining a basket, which we put under the lemon tree to act as a mulch. This could account for the mystery plant appearing here, but not in the basket.
Mmmm............................who am I to question Mother Nature. I will just watch & find out.
A few weeks ago someone gave me a picked flower off some kind of shrub. It had a leaf like a hibiscus, and the flower looked like a hibiscus, but it was a blue/mauve shade with deep red coloured staymens. I know hibiscus come in all shapes, sizes & colours, but I had not seen one like this before. As I do with any cut flower, I put it in water to enjoy inside for a while. Well, this one fell off within 24 hours, and the leaves dried, shrivelled, and finally fell off a few days later, but the stem was still green, so I left it in the water to see what would happen. Within a week, I saw new leaves & some roots forming. So now this is in a small pot of soil, nothing special, just soil from the garden. So I will baby it for a while & see what hapens. 
What do they say, "Nothing ventured, nothing gained"?
