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LOL...Our chapter is mostly made up of commercial nurserymen, rather than "home gardeners" , so we always have our meeting at the end of winter, when they are not busy out in their fields. The peonies are mostly still underground at this time of year, so no pictures to show.

The show's presentation was on hybridizing, and I'm still the only person out here on the West coast that's doing any of that. Now that I've been hybridizing for about 12 years, my seedlings are just getting big enough to flower, and I *am* getting some interesting things. The word that I'm getting some good results is slowly leaking out, but since there's still only one existing plant of most of them, and they are only in bloom for 10 days or so....it's still this kind of mysterious rumor. Some people have seen pictures...some people have heard about the pictures....

It's all pretty fun, I must admit.

This spring I'll be seeing a whole new batch of things for the very first time, so I'll try and post some pictures here.

As I'm finding, a lot of people tend to keep mum about what they have ( until they've officially named and registered them, been able to propagate them to the point where they have a bunch of plants of them) so it will be an SG horticultural exclusive !

Thank you for your words of support.. as always

I can't wait to see the photos!! I'd love to see the progression of how they grow... but you may not want to divulge your secret talent

I need to get into gardening again... this past year has just been so rough I haven't been able to. Although I love it, it kind of brings back bad memories of when I would garden all day and night after work on massive amounts of adderall and rum. I can get past that mental block if I try hard enough. But then theres still the money! Rawr! I am going to move to Mars.