My mother had several plant collections, she collected rare alpine plants, most of which were 2 to six inches tall, and I never did appreciate them, but I loved her Primula collection, odd gilded Victorian primroses, hose in garter prims, Japanese primroses, drumsticks and species. My first love in my own garden was the Lily, I loved the trumpet and oriental lilies for their rich deep scent. I lived with more than 200 different modern rosebushes for five years and only one was fragrant Double Delight, and I could not stand the gawky bare limbed growth habit of those H.T.s and Florries. THEN LUanne changed my life with one suggestion "since your'e looking for fragrance why don't you try growing Old Garden Roses ? I did and never looked back. I was enchanted to know that I could and would grow the white 'Rose of York' and the Lancaster Red Rose, cloned from descendants from the same plants that bloomed in medieval Europe. The white Musk rose that Shakespeare wrote so sweetly of, is in my garden now about to bloom. The history and mystery of Old Roses endears me to them, I love knowing that I see roses blooming that I grow the white rose of York, known since the 1400's in England, and that white rose and the red rose of Lancaster was likely to have been seen by both Shakespeare and the Tudor family back when knights fought in tournaments, and some people truly believed that unicorns might exist, the wild eglantine one sees in Queen Elizabeth 1's portraits, painted in the 1500's, are a symbol of virginity and I have held the wild eglantine in my hand, so small and frail and perfect, and smelled the welcome scent of its leaves on a moist breeze. - the rare and only yellow garden rose, brought from the middle east, seen in the paintings of the dutch masters was so rare in the 17th century that one painter had to wait months for a yellow rose bloom to appear in the marketplace, so he could fulfill his patrons request for a yellow rose in a still life. The many Tea roses blooming in my California garden, and the Banksiae have ancestors in China, and I would love to see them all in their native habitat. I love roses best with companions, the photo posted recently with hollyhocks and red Valerian in profusion with one Le Vesuve in the center is my idea of high beauty; lush colorful companions with a queen in the middle. O, Splendor, O, Joy!!! The leaves,up to 15 leaflets upon one stem, fern shaped leaves of Scotch Burnets, pleated rugosa folaige, the scent of the Incense Rose leaves, more strongly scented than many a flower of a modern rose, the flagon shaped hips of Alba Semi Plena, and millions of R. moyessi hips, hips as large as cherry tomatos on Magnifica rugosa, tiny sprays of black hips an ornament many Spinosissima roses, the lush grow of de la Grifferaie' blue-green leaves of the Alba roses, pretty arching growth of a pegged Hybrid Perpetual Ulrich Brunner fils' , and many scents of the different rose classes, , classic Damask, to the sexy scent of Tea roses has opened a world to me that I could not dream to comprehend before I knew of any rose other than 'Peace'. -and best of all, the people I meet at Old Rose events, and here on gardenweb that share their love of roses with me. Thank you all for sharing your beautiful writing, Lux

The cold weather, if the house the heater and perhaps lack of air circulation. It likes it warm. It doesn not like peat moss, and gathers mosture from the air at night. Don't leave by an open winder. Change the soil to dry soil, with a lot of coarse sand mixed into very little orchid bark, I live in the far West, I have African Weather, mine does fine year round, Do not mist them. If you are going to water,Then water thoroughly, the not again until the soil, not peat moss dries out. When you get a plant always change the soil. The western wholesale houses ships in peat so they won't dry out on the trip. Use a Cactus mix add in coarse washed construction sand at a ratio of 40% and only 10 % red wood bark or oak leaf. 50% perlite or pumice. Kalanchoe cannot grow in cold unless with other plants around them, they do not like harsh Eastern temps. Most Kalanchoe are from Madagascar. Has it outgrown it's pot? Norma

Setting seed is pregnancy. If the plant is stressed, it may not set seed. If, for some reason, the pollen didn't make it to the pistles to accomplish fertilization, or if the weather was not conducive to fertilization (too wet, too cold, too hot, etc.) seed won't be set. If the plant is too immature, it may not set seed. Just as with people, "getting pregnant" is hit and miss. Some are more fertile and willing to set seed than others. Those of us here in extreme heat areas quickly find out how late in the heat we can pollinate before it stops working. A friend out in Rancho Mirage, near Palm Springs, has already stopped pollinating because it's too hot for fertilization to work. I'm still pollinating here just north of Los Angeles because it's still working. If I allow the seed parents to dry out, they'll stop setting seeds. If I don't watch how I water and the pollinated flowers get soaked by the hose, fertilization might easily be stopped for those blooms. If your rose fits any of the mentioned categories, it could explain why seeds didn't set. Kim

Inadequate light is the problem. Don't worry about the amount of fertiliser, just repot it each year.