Pic of the Month - January 2024 WINNER

Congrats, Daniel. They are beauties.

 

Well Daniel, if any photo is better than the hawk, it is yours Congratulations on a pic of the month well won!

 

Well done Buddy. Beautiful photo! I love these flowers Daniel. Thank you for sharing them - they are so lovely. I've never had an amaryllis, and I ponder every year over the handful of boxes that show up at our little grocery. By the time I'm done pondering they have vanished. Yours has inspired me to make a point of getting one next year.

 

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Thanks for your votes and generous comments!

A few flowers can make for a cheerful winters day.

 

Congrats Daniel. I feel the same way, which is why I have Christmas cacti. Now I noticed the other day that African violets are out. I'm very tempted. They remind me of my g'ma. She had them all along her big kitchen window. I need to figure out how to put a higher shelf in that bird/plant cage. I could put one on it, if I can get a shelf.

 

Somehow I always kill African Violets, I just can't get them right.

 

Too much water on those violets, Daniel?

 

My thought is they are sold growing in a medium that dries out too fast. I wonder if I buy one and immediately repot it in a better medium, would they do better. That worked for the Poinsettia. I really dont know.

 

Good luck with them.
You may have a good idea there.

 

My grandma always watered from the bottom, as well. And they were all in McCoy pottery pots.

 

Congrats Daniel it is a beautiful pic. Then again all the choices were nice. It is a hard choice come voting time.

 

It is a hard choice for me too. The other choices were great!

 

We too, Willow. I never want to take any chance at all with water droplets getting on those leaves…and the soil must never be waterlogged. The roots just cannot stand it.