Genetics in action
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♥Mar. 15th, 2016 // 04:58 pm♥
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Two years ago, we planted some crocuses. Last spring, we had white crocuses in the back garden and both orange and purple ones in the front.
This year, the ones in the back have failed to make an appearance, but in the front garden we have (in order of appearance) orange ones, purples ones, purple and white streaked ones, and white ones.
There's also a lonely-looking purple one that's popped up by the duck pond.
Are crocuses particularly known for self-seeding and colour variability?
(I've put some hollyhocks and sweetpeas outside to start hardening off. Fingers crossed for tonight, I suspect I'll have to bring them back in again tomorrow. It's a good job I distrusted the weather forecast and didn't leave them out last night: as Mike said, they would have got hard, but then they probably would have got squishy later....) |
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