Patience Rewarded

Back in May a friend gave me leaves from several varieties of African violet. As previously reported, most of them have grown new plants, but these two are still just sitting here:

Or so I thought.

Yesterday Jeanette posted that a leaf she started at the same time had finally started to grow a new plant, hidden behind the leaf. So there was still hope for these two.

This morning I had a close look at mine, and look what I found under one of them:

A tiny leaf appearing! It has taken 177 days, but the wait has not been in vain.