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Flowers all year round indoors and out

February 15, 2009 by Tricia

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Some how this year I’ve managed to have flowers almost continuously, by this I mean I’ve had flowers either in my yard or in my house since last spring!

At the moment my kitchen is the bloom factory. If you’re a neat freak you wouldn’t like the look of our kitchen table as it has at least 10 plants on it, but at least that only happens in the winter. During the warmer months most of my plants go outdoors or onto our enclosed porches.

We have two types of Orchids blooming (another just finished it’s flowering), a small hibiscus that puts out one or two flowers every few days, one Amaryllis that just finished blooming and when my husband was in the hospital the nurses that cared for him gave him an African Violet plant – in bloom.

Our Thanksgiving and Christmas Cactus’ keep putting out the occasional bloom as well … so as I said we’ve had flowers surrounding us for a year now! That’s a first.

The Orchids are just lovely right now.

Purple Orchid 5

This purple one is one of my favorites. I love it’s intricate pattern. I almost looks like a butterfly to me.

These white Orchids are new. I bought the plant in the first week of January and it’s still blooming!

White Orchids 18

I love how the flowers all line up in a delicate row like that.

Oh … here’s a shot of my messy plant covered table … the plant with the weird spider like things is an orchid that’s producing babies. Those spider leg like things are air roots and the green leaves are new plants growing high above the base of the main plant.

table full of plants

Do you have any flowers blooming in your house right now? Even some store bought Valentine flowers?





Filed Under: Gardening, Green Thumb Sunday, Home and Lifestyle, Photography, Toronto, Tricia's Garden Tagged With: Amaryllis, blooming, flowers, Green_Thumb_Sunday, GTS, hibiscus, indoors, orchids, plants, year_round

Comments

  1. Jean-Luc Picard says

    February 16, 2009 at 2:42 pm

    Those orchids are vivid!

  2. French Citizenship says

    February 17, 2009 at 7:19 am

    I’ll really have to get some orchid growing tips from you!

  3. BK says

    February 17, 2009 at 10:57 am

    These orchids are lovely. I love the purple one also. I was in the florist today and was looking at some orchids too. Was contemplating to buy one. 🙂

  4. grottogirl says

    February 17, 2009 at 3:38 pm

    Very nice captures! The flowers are just beautiful.

  5. Richie says

    February 17, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    The purple orchids are amazing. I can’t wait until we have flowers outside. It wont be too long before the daffodils bloom here.

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  6. Graffitinews says

    February 19, 2009 at 9:33 am

    I love those orchids !

  7. RennyBA says

    February 21, 2009 at 3:36 pm

    We had one Amaryllis for Christmas as always like a tradition. Now we have an Orchids very much like yours and it’s beautiful. These are very exotic plants for Norwegians you know.

  8. Flower Lovers says

    January 11, 2010 at 3:17 am

    The orchids was so nice, very nice captures.

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    February 15, 2009 at 8:47 pm

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