On Sun, 31 Oct 2004 17:50:34 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:

~
~"jane" wrote in message
...
~ Hello folk
~
~ I thought I'd share some good news as there always seems to be
~ precious little about. A week ago, with fantastic timing, (it was
~the
~ day before I was getting married) I went to water the conservatory
~ plants and found that my 3.5 year old strelitzia regina (sowed May
~ 2001) was growing two shoots, and only one was a new leaf...
~
~ My poor fiance wondered why on earth I was dancing about the lounge
~ yelling YES! at the top of my voice!
~
~ What a wedding present. I now look forward to seeing it flower - I
~ hope it will open before Christmas. It's been suffering dreadfully
~ with red spider mite this year and maybe it's the stress that's
~caused
~ it to flower so early. I don't care!
~
~Congratulations on the success with the strelitzia.
~And may your marriage be a happy one.
~

Thankyou! It's taken 7 years to get him to the altar, so perhaps I
ought to have planted my bird of paradise when I first met him

Must pop a pic up somewhere when it flowers!


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!