I was reading an article on the Internet about how a two-thousand year old seed has been sprouted and is growing steadily.  It has been growing for 26 months and is now four feet tall.  It is the seed of a Judean date tree that is now extinct.  Apparently several seeds of this type were discovered 40 years ago and have simply been stored until recently, when some scientists decided to try to germinate it.  I don’t know why they only tried one!  Anyway, what is cool and important about this is that they think (and hope) that the tree will have some medicinal uses. 

That gives me hope for the seeds that I should have planted last year!  Maybe I can still plant them and they’ll sprout!