Hi Sheila,

 

Are you by any chance in Canada?

 

Joanne

Well here it is April 20th already and I see that I haven't been into my journal at all this year. I have begun to update my lighting and I havedecided to give a new potting soil that I saw at an orchid show in November a try with my violets. I have repotted everything into it so will see how they do.

Joanne, you asked a question way back in December about whether I was in Canada. Yes I am in Ontario. I am planning a visit out to my Mom in July. She lives in Red Deer Alberta.

Anyway that is what has been happening with my violets right now.

Well here it is the end of the Canadian Convention.  I managed to get up to Mississauga for an afternoon.  The plants were beautiful.  I even met the hybridizer of a couple of my plants, Jeanie Bell from New Brunswick. 

I came home with three of the Russian varieties to give them a try, a new strep, a petrocosmea, and a micro mini violet trailer that is just adorable. The show plants were beautiful, I can only hope that someday I can grow violets like them.

A few weeks ago I was given a packet of miniture african violet seeds.  I sowed them as per the instructions that came with them and low and behold I have very tiny green specks poking through.  I am very excited as this is the first time that I have been successful with seeds.  I can't wait to see what I end up with.

My tiny green specks from the seeds I sowed have grown into a couple of nice looking little seedlings.  One is actually going to bloom.  It will be interesting to see what it looks like.