OK. I am still chopping up my poor flowers. This day's operations found that the stupid rain had filled up the flowers like little pitchers, and washed away the pollen. Booooo! I need a little, or bigger greenhouse. Rain can be a pest!
Pat, I didn't mean 'disperse' as in from one flower to another by wind, which is the usual definition. I meant the glob of pollen inside the one flower where I put it. Twice now, I've seen something that looked like a teenie tiny puff of smoke coming out of a flower as it jiggled when I moved the plant. I wonder what that could be?
I have 'skipper' butterflies that I've watched crawl all the way inside flowers, they must be the culprit for the Adeniums that I don't pollinate. Here's a googled page of photos of Skippers...
http://www.google.com/search?q...
Doris, yes, I am becoming alarmed at the seedpods, so many! But I keep on pollinating! Wa! Photos soon, I found my lost camera!!!
A friend said, "I'm going to come visit you and buy some of your flowers." What?? I don't really have any to let go. I sputtered at her, but I know she'll never find the time to come visit. I decided the next time I see her, I'm going to say, "I want to buy four tables and sixteen chairs from your restaurant" That'll give her a framework for thinking that I'm running a nursery. In a year or two, yes, but not now...
