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Originally Posted by mamajane
It amazes me that chamomile can survive in the wild, the babies look so delicate.
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That's true of so many wild plants.
Spoilered because it's not regarding medicinal plants...
A few years ago I was the lucky recipient of some
Western Red Lily seedlings (or would they be "bulblings") grown at the
Shand Greenhouses.
(ETA: In case you don't have time to read the links, the WRL is our provincial flower; it's becoming more rare in the wild. The Shand Greenhouses are run by our provincial power company and they are attached to the Shand (coal) power station to utilize the waste heat produced. The greenhouse is involved in preserving various native plants.) When they came, they looked sooooo very fragile, I thought, no wonder they were becoming more rare in the wild here. I was almost afraid to touch them... and I'm experienced with successfully transplanting things that don't like being transplanted. Not all survived, but I do have about half of them still and they're getting sturdier every year. There are a couple of spots where they've even started to multiply.