Indoor Garden. Winter 2024 - 2025

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  1. Daniel W

    Daniel W Hardy Maple

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    Here is a Pelargonium I decided to overwinter. They are ordinary but have cheerful flowers in a gloomy season.

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    These Pelargoniums were cuttings I took this summer.

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    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.

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    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.

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  3. Pacnorwest

    Pacnorwest Hardy Maple

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    Impressive indoor plant collection. Beautiful blooms inside in contrast to the freezing cold winter outside. I luv it. Good job. :smt023:sete_005:
     
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    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.
     
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    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.

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    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.

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    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.
     
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  6. Sjoerd

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    Daniel— We like your speckled Poinsettia. The rose pruning looks good, doesn’t it. Good job.
     
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    Than you Sjoerd. I keeps me occupied and something to play with.
     
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    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.
     
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    Those roses that I pruned way back, seem to be making some nice growth now.

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    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.

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    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.
     
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    All your new starts look great. :smt023:setf_016:
     
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    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.
     
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    @Daniel W someone gifted me an oxalis last summer. Beautiful plant doing very well for me.
     
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    Clay, oxalis is a great plant. Colorful and resilient too.
     
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    Today, it more colorful indoors than out.
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    Looking so nice, Daniel.
    That Amaryllis is growing away, isn’t it.
     
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    Here is the Amaryllis / Hippeastrum today.
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    The dendrobium orchid starts that I transplanted.

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    Th carnation seedlings germinated in about four days on a warming mat.

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