My last brave little bouquet i took into work from my Fall garden is long gone. Except for.........i had one little purple Heuchera (Coral Bell) leaf in the vase for contrast, and, after everything else had died, this leaf still looked good and so i kept it. The months went by, and i started to think maybe this leaf was dead, dried up, and is crispy in the vase - but it still looked alive!
My Jewel Orchid bloomed, as it does in January/February, and i stuck a couple of the stems of flowers in with it so it wouldn't look so lonely. Now they are on their last flowers, too. Today i decided to change the water (which i keep forgetting and it's kinda er, cloudy - but it's a tiny vase). To my amazement, the Heuchera leaf's stem had sprouted roots!
Had no idea they could BE propagated like that; not that i had researched it, but i have always just had a good feel for how various plants can be multiplied and which cannot, and i would have bet money that single LEAF wouldn't produce roots ~ but, hey, that's what's fun about gardening!
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