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Post by SueA on Jan 1, 2023 15:38:46 GMT
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Post by Eli on Jan 1, 2023 19:06:28 GMT
Good to start the year off with signs of life SueA 
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Post by grindle on Jan 2, 2023 4:17:54 GMT
nice to have something to look at this time of year |
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Post by seaburn on Jan 2, 2023 10:01:56 GMT
Very encouraging signs indeed.
Must see what is doing in my garden.
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Post by balc2 on Jan 4, 2023 21:10:43 GMT
I haven't taken any photos of the Pansies, Cyclamen & a Geranium flowering on the balcony so far this year! But I can show you a pot of Hyacinths my daughter & son-in-law bought me for Christmas:
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Post by grindle on Jan 5, 2023 5:10:32 GMT
lovely colour balc2 bet they smell nice too |
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Post by balc2 on Jan 5, 2023 21:27:47 GMT
Thanks, grindle, Yes, they do smell nice! |
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Post by balc2 on Jan 5, 2023 21:30:04 GMT
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Post by lesley on Jan 7, 2023 9:47:38 GMT
Good to see a few flowers are coming January isn't my favorite month |
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Post by balc2 on Jan 8, 2023 20:47:30 GMT
lesley, January can be a bit of a bleak month which is the reason I try to grow some Pansies or Violas on the balcony during the winter months. It can be rather depressing just seeing empty pots - even if they do have spring flowering bulbs in them!
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Post by balc2 on Jan 17, 2023 18:00:25 GMT
Yesterday evening I discovered that my Clivias now have flowerbuds on them! I'm happy about that because they haven't flowered for a couple of years & when they did the flowers were way down low in amongst the leaves & hardly out of the bulbs! I found out last year that I should give them the same treatment I give my Amaryllis bulbs, i.e., Let them go dormant from late autumn & let them get some cold, not freezing though! It seems to have worked because since repotting them only a couple of weeks ago & putting them in the kitchen again they now have buds! So now I know for the future how to get them to flower every year! The last two years they only made leaves & It seems they can go on like this for years without flowering if they don't get a 3 month dormant period with cold!
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Post by Eli on Jan 18, 2023 11:44:30 GMT
Two Hyacinths planted at the same time and on the same windowsill but one is much more advanced than the other ...
  
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Post by balc2 on Jan 18, 2023 20:27:18 GMT
They look really good, Eli! I think the wild ancestors of our modern Hyacinths were blue, rather like Bluebells or Scillas. Perhaps that might account for them flowering sooner than the different colours we now have. (?) |
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Post by Eli on Jan 18, 2023 22:40:16 GMT
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Post by grindle on Jan 19, 2023 5:05:21 GMT
bet they smell lovely Eli |
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