I CANNOT believe you actually said this: "When was the last time you said anything nice to me????" but since you did, here's a real direct answer. May 7, 2009, (sorry I don't know how to post a link, for the real thing, it's about 2 pages back now, includes pix of my youngster) please see below: "How long does it take to root one of these? Brought to you by clip this post email this post what is this? see most clipped and recent clippings Posted by meyermike_1micha 5 (My Page) on Thu, May 7, 09 at 19:05 I have had a cutting, or leaf of a ZZ plant sitting in water for over 3 months now. It is alive and well, but no roots..Weird. How long does it take to root, if at all? That leaf looks so healthy still... Thanks.. Follow-Up Postings: RE: How long does it take to root one of these? Brought to you by clip this post email this post what is this? see most clipped and recent clippings Posted by pirate_girl Zone7 NYC (My Page) on Thu, May 7, 09 at 22:07 Hi Mike, It can take quite some time. I've rooted leaves in mix, that can take around a year. I've recently water rooted a stem, but didn't make note of the date I put it up. I took these pix, 'cause they show the round tuber AND the roots the plant develops. I really don't remember how long it took, but am guessing 9 months maybe, like from last Fall (I think I had accidentally broken the stem off the parent plant). and and So if you can grow some serious patience, you might end up w/ something like this. I think I'll take mine to my local Plant Society to pass around & show this development & then sell it at their plant sale table for a couple of bucks. ----------------------------------------------------------- RE: How long does it take to root one of these? Brought to you by clip this post email this post what is this? see most clipped and recent clippings Posted by pattirose4 (My Page) on Fri, May 8, 09 at 12:41 I rooted a quite few a couple years ago and they are easy to root - it just takes forever, LOL! I rooted some cuttings in water and some leaves in soil but it did take more than 6 months. I now have a lovely little plant about 4" tall. After you plant it in soil the cutting or leaf will eventually die off and a new shoot will emerge. --------------------- RE: How long does it take to root one of these? Brought to you by clip this post email this post what is this? see most clipped and recent clippings Posted by meyermike_1micha 5 (My Page) on Sun, May 10, 09 at 17:58 Wow pirate girl, The waiting was definately worth the results! That plant is so cute. Sounds like they take as long as a pregnacy for a women, almost 9 months..lol Thanks for sharing. It tells me that my waiting is worth it, and that it just may continue to live. Yes I am encouraged. I didn't want to loose it I will post a pic just as soon as I see a root... Pattirose4, thanks for sharing also. Take care and stay happy!! Thank goodness the spring has arrived..:-) --------------------- RE: How long does it take to root one of these? Brought to you by clip this post email this post what is this? see most clipped and recent clippings Posted by pirate_girl Zone7 NYC (My Page) on Tue, May 19, 09 at 13:40 Bringing this back up as this very question is being asked at another thread. "" * * * * * * * * * You'll Pls. Note Mike, there is not ONE off note in any of my comments here.

Your a lucky ducky Jan. I have to many newbies to see any blooms but hope to next year. I got ones that start very early to late so I'd have them for a long time. Most of my long time daylilies have seen the last of their blooms for the year...... they didn't do as well this year due to to much rain and not enough sunshine. So it can go both ways not enough rain or to much :/ but is wasn't just daylilies that suffered roses lost leaves, some plants came up very late in the year. Now we're back to no rain for over a month but promise of rain this weekend YEAH.

Hmmph, manure in the fall....I usually do compost in the spring....I never really feed the garden in the fall for fear of causing some growth that may get killed with the cold. I'll have to look into that...it make's sense to put it to bed with a full tummy : ) Actually my lilies look good, except the candidum...no buds on any of them this spring... : ( Maybe it was the cold spring...for the peonies for me...they are usually so reliable... I am not sure when they set buds..but this year they didn't do well for me..my neighbor has the same problem with hers too. I guess micro climates abound.. Thanks for sharing! JoAnn I may have to change my name......I lost my two Just Joey roses this year also. Ha ha ha.....

Paula, I imagine they seek shelter, but also think that the hail storms and tornadoes probably killed a lot of them too. All the hummers in OK must be here at our house. We have 7 feeders up and plenty of activity. We have both ruby-throated hummingbirds and rufous hummingbirds. They've been back since sometime in April. At first they were at the feeders nonstop, but now that so many flowers are in bloom, they aren't coming to the feeders quite as much. I'd keep the feeders hanging in their usual spots and filled with fresh nectar. If they had been back and then fled from the storm and survived, then when they do find their way back to you, they will expect the feeders to be in the usual places. I can always tell when returning hummers arrive because they go exactly to the spots where I always hang the feeders, even if they feeders aren't there yet. Apparently they have an excellent memory. If I move a feeder from its usual spot, they buzz me for days and try to tell me to move it back. They are around all day long and often sit on the electric lines and watch me work in the garden. They are pretty funny. They will sit on the power line right beside mockingbirds, doves and blue jays. Apparently hummingbirds think they are pretty tough. I've been planting lots of plants for them in the new garden out back behind the barn, reserving about 40% of it for a hummingbird/butterfly garden, and mixing in lots of flowers in the remaining 60% that is, techinically, the vegetable portion of the garden. They found the new feeder out there in that garden the first day I hung it up, which is pretty amazing. It is at least 100' from the next closest feeder, and I put it up there before I had a single flower in bloom. I hope yours come back. I would miss mine if they disappeared. Dawn