Floradora’s Gerbera
Pink!
When this bouquet was fresh, Guttersnipe sat up in the Gerbera. For the last two weeks, the human has been reducing the bouquet as the flowers fade…
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Petals and seeds
…but this morning the Gerbera suddenly dropped almost all its petals and seeds!
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solitary
Just one lonely petal and one fluffy seed was left on the stalk!
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Heap
The rest are in a pink puddle on the tablecloth…
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joined
…we’ve never seen a Gerbera seed – isn’t it interesting how it has a little umbrella like a Dandelion, and is attached to the petal?
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collect
Floradora collected the seeds…
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saved
…and will store them until spring…
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Looking forward
…maybe we can grow them in our garden!
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Quimper Hittys 
I think Floradora is already living up to her name; she’ll be a gardening Hitty. By the way, I love your Souleiado tablecloth!
I think Floradora might well enjoy spending time in our garden, particularly in a few months when it stops being cold and wet outside…although if Rose gets her some socks knitted up, and I find some shoes that fit she may well go out sooner!
We love those Provençal fabrics, some acquired in Provence in 2010, some in charity shops here in Victoria, and some from my mother-in-law, who bought them in the 1960’s.
She has pretty feet. Her human did a good job carving her. Wonder if those seeds would sprout??
Thanks! We do hope they will sprout, but you never know with seeds!
Oh, that will be a fun project for Floradora and others who may join her in awaiting the chance to plant the Gerbera seeds and await their response. I find it exciting at times to have something to look forward to as they days go by.
Definitely we all need positive things to look forward to, and gardening, especially planting seeds is a hopeful activity…I think Floradora is going to be a good example – born in a difficult year, but looking forward nonetheless.
I hope that the seeds will sprout and flourish! Will you start them in the house in the New Year?
We’ll begin by drying the seeds…if they look viable we will try and start them early, as they require 18 to 24 weeks from germination to blooming! They are a South African native plant, but should be alright in our biogeoclimatic zone.
What fun if you can get them to grow. I think in anyone can it’s Floradora.
It will be fun! But if they don’t take, we have other plants to try…Floradora and Perdita should make a good team out in the garden…we have a whole section of low growing plants just for them! We have hopes!
How fascinating! I have never seen a Gerbera seed either,. Yay for Floradora! I hope she has great success growing gerberas next year.
We hope she does too! She will have fun trying, and will learn lots about patience, and plants!
one of the most fun things about gardening is plannning what to plant next year!! Floradora is so sweet…surely any plant she touches will bloom profusely!!
Floradora is hopeful! The pink Gerbera Daisy was such a pretty colour and she seems to be fond of all kinds of daisies maybe she will be lucky, or persuasive enough to get this one to grow!!
isn’t it wonderful how simply adjusting the viewpoint makes such a difference?! Thank you for sharing these.
It is (in many situations!). I like living at a smaller scale sometimes, the view can be quite surprising and lovely.
what amazing world you create, I loved so much. I wanted to be in this miniature world… Floradoras is amazing…Your photographs and stories too. Thank you, Love, nia
Thank you Nia, I am so lucky, and the dolls have small problems, it is comforting to live in their world for a while!
… 🙂 do you know what I try to say, you know j.r.r. tolkien, one of my favurite writer, he created a new world and did a great job with his books. You are m same, at least for me this is same. You create a world maybe not a new one but what we have already forgotten. I love so much. You are welcome and Thank you, Stay in safe, Love, nia