Since it's winter now, and indoor garden is different from outdoor garden, I thought it would be fun for anyone to post what's going on indoors. Here is some of mine. Mostly, I have some racks in the sunroom. Here's a grocery store orchid that is sending up two flower stalks. I didn't give it special treatment, other than the bark chips it was already in and general purpose houseplant fertilizer. I think it's a maroon colored, intergeneric hybrid, oncidium type but I don't know. Another orchid, given to me on my birthday, two years ago. It bloomed for a year, then rested. Now it's sending up two new flower stalks. Here is a Pelargonium I decided to overwinter. They are ordinary but have cheerful flowers in a gloomy season. These Pelargoniums were cuttings I took this summer. Here's a Poinsettia in its third year of blooming. It's very little trouble. I don't do the careful dark room treatment. I just keep it in the sunroom, and the long nights take care of that. An oxalis. I let it dry out over the summer, then brought it back indoors and started watering it. It's about 25 years old.
Impressive indoor plant collection. Beautiful blooms inside in contrast to the freezing cold winter outside. I luv it. Good job.
Oh Daniel— I wish I had something to join-in and show with the rest…but I just have a couple of simple houseplants. My inside area won’t fill up until around march or so; but, At that time I will have plenty. For now, I will enjoy yours ant the things that others will show. Your situation is remarkable to see. i just keep saying “Gosh!” And showing the wife. She likes it too…and the neatness. ..yes mate, you get extra marks for the tidiness of it all. Chapeau.
Here is the other Poinsettia that I saved from last year. The flowers (bracts) are not as large as the original, but I think the color is more brilliant and the variegation is sharper. I don't know why. As with the first one, I didn't do any special darkness treatment. I think the winter days here must be short enough, so that isn't necessary. The mini rose leaves were scruffy looking, so I gave them a radical pruning. They had a chance to rest for a couple of months. Now we will find out if they grow back. Those are under lights and getting the usual houseplant diluted fertilizer. I was thinking about a mulch for the soil surface. I wonder if coconut coir would do.
Daniel— y’know mate…I wonder where Jewell is— she always has loads of freeloading plants from outside in her home over the winter. Maybe I’ll give her a shout.
Those roses that I pruned way back, seem to be making some nice growth now. There is another that seems to have spider mites. I moved it outside. Maybe I'll prune it back and apply a neem drench. Or let it freeze. The pelargonium seedlings are growing quickly too. I'm happy with those. They will need up-potting soon. I repotted a hybrid Dendrobium orchid that I started from cuttings a few years ago. Forgot to take photo. They are too vigorous for my plant shelf. I'm experimenting. There are two plants. I will give one, just bloom food and the other, dilute houseplant food. Carnation seeds came in the mail. I will plant those next, for a head start. Old fashioned, clove-scented type.
Daniel— wow mate ! Those pruned babies have made a smashing comeback. Just lookatt’em. Say, what colour bloom will those pelargonium plantlets show? It is all going so well there.
