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March 2/10
This started out as a sprout that came up in my composted dirt that I have in a pail in the basement for starting my seeds indoors.I put it into a cell pack in early Feb. and transplanted it into the pot it is now in on Feb 26.All along I didn’t have a clue what it was that I was growing.It finally got tons of buds on it and I knew it was a flower.(lol) Well yesterday it surprised me with beautiful pink flowers.Yes it’s an impatiens.I thought that leaf looked familiar.(lol)
-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more



















8 comments so far
MsDebbieP
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posted 1174 days ago
well look at you!!!
you are like the ultimate “3R’s” person. Well done.
-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)
Radicalfarmergal
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posted 1174 days ago
Bon, what a nice bit of spring you have in your house, helping you wait until the snow melts. I like the way you are always experimenting and you grow things so well! Enjoy the blooms now and it will be even happier in your garden when the warm weather comes around.
-- "To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves." M. Gandhi
Iris43
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posted 1174 days ago
What a nice surprise! Good job, Bon. I hear of people starting impatience from seed, but have been too chicken to try it myself. .....................hm-m…...maybe I’ll have to give it a try if you get results like that.
-- 'To plant a Garden is to believe in Tomorrow'
Greenthumb
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posted 1174 days ago
Isnt that a pleasant surprise.
I have 1 flat of impatients on the go and one seed pack from 2 years ago and so far, the old seeds have yet to sproat.
I sure wish I would have done a better job at tagging my plants
-- but for one rose, love endures
sharad
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posted 1174 days ago
“Chance favours the prepared mind” this is said about Alexander Fleming’s discovery of Penicillin in 1928. This applies to you who saved this Impatience from being discarded from your compost soil. It now nicely decorates your table overlooking the snow outside. Well done.
Sharad
-- Bagwan-- “If someone feels that they had never made a mistake in their life, then it means they have never tried a new thing in their life”.-Albert Einstein
DavesYard
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posted 1174 days ago
Very nice find, Bon. I love a good mystery.
Penny
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posted 1174 days ago
Very pretty Bon.
-- Gardening is Great Therapy!!.....Georgian Bay area....zone 5b
Bon
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posted 1174 days ago
I left it in the bay window and today it has 6 flowers on it.Makes me smile every time I look at it.
-- Bon,Hastings,Ont.....zone 5a....Always room for one more