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Good point, Fred. But how would anyone know whether that one particular
plant will set seed or not?

Assume there is a way. Picking the flowers may lead to other people
thinking that picking is ok...setting an inadvertent bad example.

Randy

_________________________________
RF Lauff
Way in the boonies of
Antigonish County, NS.


On 29 April 2013 13:43, Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca> wrote:

> Quoting Carl Munden <carl.munden@ns.sympatico.ca>:
>
>  Another GOOD reason to let Pink Lady's-Slippers be is that it takes 12
>> years from seed germination to its first year of flowering !!!
>>
>
> * but when the flowers don't produce seed they may be a cost to the plant
> once they're up (provided the flowers are picked as a stem, without pulling
> leaves and all). The plants may be able to "settle down to photosynthesis"
> once an unpollinated bloom is picked - along the lines of gardeners
> "dead-heading" spent blooms. I believe the real danger to these plants is
> would-be gardeners digging them up for doomed transplantations.
>
> fred.
> ------------------------------**------------------------------
>          Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
> Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm
> Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm
> Daily Paintings - http://karstaddailypaintings.**blogspot.com/<http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/>
>          South Nation Basin Art & Science Book
>          http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_**book.htm<http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm>
>     RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0
>   on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52'N 75* 42'W
>    (613)258-3107 <bckcdb at istar.ca> http://pinicola.ca/
> ------------------------------**------------------------------
>
>
>

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<div dir=3D"ltr">Good point, Fred. But how would anyone know whether that o=
ne particular plant will set seed or not?<div><br></div><div style>Assume t=
here is a way. Picking the flowers may lead to other people thinking that p=
icking is ok...setting an inadvertent bad example.</div>

<div style><br></div><div style>Randy</div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"=
><br clear=3D"all"><div>_________________________________<br>RF Lauff<br>Wa=
y in the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS.</div>
<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 29 April 2013 13:43, Fred Schueler <s=
pan dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:bckcdb@istar.ca" target=3D"_blank">bc=
kcdb@istar.ca</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" st=
yle=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

<div class=3D"im">Quoting Carl Munden &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:carl.munden@ns.=
sympatico.ca" target=3D"_blank">carl.munden@ns.sympatico.ca</a>&gt;:<br>
<br>
<blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p=
x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Another GOOD reason to let Pink Lady&#39;s-Slippers be is that it takes 12 =
years from seed germination to its first year of flowering !!!<br>
</blockquote>
<br></div>
* but when the flowers don&#39;t produce seed they may be a cost to the pla=
nt once they&#39;re up (provided the flowers are picked as a stem, without =
pulling leaves and all). The plants may be able to &quot;settle down to pho=
tosynthesis&quot; once an unpollinated bloom is picked - along the lines of=
 gardeners &quot;dead-heading&quot; spent blooms. I believe the real danger=
 to these plants is would-be gardeners digging them up for doomed transplan=
tations.<br>


<br>
fred.<br>
------------------------------<u></u>------------------------------<br>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Frederick W. Schueler &amp; Aleta Karstad<br>
Bishops Mills Natural History Centre - <a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.=
htm" target=3D"_blank">http://pinicola.ca/bmnhc.htm</a><br>
Mudpuppy Night in Oxford Mills - <a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm"=
 target=3D"_blank">http://pinicola.ca/mudpup1.htm</a><br>
Daily Paintings - <a href=3D"http://karstaddailypaintings.blogspot.com/" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">http://karstaddailypaintings.<u></u>blogspot.com/</a><br>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0South Nation Basin Art &amp; Science Book<br>
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0<a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_book.htm" target=
=3D"_blank">http://pinicola.ca/books/SNR_<u></u>book.htm</a><br>
=A0 =A0 RR#2 Bishops Mills, Ontario, Canada K0G 1T0<br>
=A0 on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44* 52&#39;N 75* 42&#39;W<br>
=A0 =A0<a href=3D"tel:%28613%29258-3107" value=3D"+16132583107" target=3D"_=
blank">(613)258-3107</a> &lt;bckcdb at <a href=3D"http://istar.ca" target=
=3D"_blank">istar.ca</a>&gt; <a href=3D"http://pinicola.ca/" target=3D"_bla=
nk">http://pinicola.ca/</a><br>


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<br>
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