yes Rhizo_1! just what I was thinking about having them in a no ugly plant allowed area! I wouldnt care except those pots are right on the front deck where everyone see's them and I have other types of plants that could go there. Tiger's Eye I have not grown before so I dont know if the seeds will come true. I hope at least some will come back next year! I have also noticed that certain colors of pansies came back this year? Like last year I had all sorts of colors but now I have mostly the basic colors(maybe not as new varieties?) such as white, yellow, red with yellow, the big flowered varieties which are the same as last year, and also like 1 purple. I had those colors last year plus some ones with a little variant to them such as white with purple in the center, that didnt come this year. The pansies do make it through the winter, and sometimes keep flowering, but by summer if I dont cut them back then they are all scraggly. Which I dont care anyway since by summer I'm ready for more thriving summer flowers instead of trying to keep cold-weather flowers alive.

the flowers smell lovely and Akebia quinata supposedly makes tastey fruit, although i think it needs to be crosspollinated to do so (have another akebia in the area?). i had a neighbor in corvallis that had one onces, beautiful vine. i think the seeds may need to be given a cold dormancy period first. -ming

The flower that produced the pod was a standard orange. "Other pods on the same plant were normal sized. I started with one clivia about 20 years ago, and have 3rd/4th generation from that one orange plant. Some of the progeny from that plant show interesting variations in flower color, some with almost yellow flowers tipped with orange. Has anyone had similar results?" Just curious, was that from division or growing from seed? Seed, I assume. I am just lurking on the forum today :) My 3+ year old Clivia has never bloomed, and was blooming when I bought it. Some good tips here I will try this fall!

I had a similar pod on Calling (Blyth) last season, and simply shoved it in a pot of soil. Very lazy of me I know. I think some hybridisers simply harvest the stalks at this stage and stick them in a vase or bottle. Anyway, mine were fine, and did better than ones i have fussed over. Sometimes i bring in a still slightly green pod that has broken off, and just lay it on my desk shelf besides the computer. I rarely have to throw the seeds away because the pod was too green. I do discard them cheerfully if I don't think the cross is worth growing, and I advise others to do the same. It is certainly fun to get your first seedlings, but really not worth growing seeds just because you have them. My first crosses weren't worth the time i put into them, but were a learning process. After 8 years of growing from seed, I am yet to register and introduce anything, but getting very close. I guess I am pretty fussy.