Flowers 2020

[KiwiPlantGuy]

Hi
Spring here.
Satsuki flowers from same batch of cuttings or maybe he’s hoping.

and Kurume ‘Komo Kulshan”
Shown in the Tree thread also.
Charles

 

[EricMack]

Green Glow, new cultivar for me this Summer... pushing a few late Fall blooms just before going to it’s cold nap

 

[Carol 83]

This one is doing better inside than it did outside.

 

[LittleDingus]

One reason why I grow orchids: flowers in the winter



This is the first of my "short day" orchids to bloom. Many more are well on their way I think I have more winter flowering plants than I do plants that flower in any other season!

 

[hinmo24t]

One reason why I grow orchids: flowers in the winter

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This is the first of my "short day" orchids to bloom. Many more are well on their way I think I have more winter flowering plants than I do plants that flower in any other season!

oooOooooo, very delicate

 

[AJL]

This mini Fuchsia keeps on flowering! Im not sure of the name but believe its a microphylla variety

 

[ABCarve]

Psychopsis mendenhall- the butterfly orchid. This spike is over 2-1/2 years old. Does anyone know how long they'll go?

 

[LittleDingus]

Psychopsis mendenhall- the butterfly orchid. This spike is over 2-1/2 years old. Does anyone know how long they'll go?

Many years...they are sequential bloomers off the same inflorescence. Chop it and it might be a while before the plant decides to make another one!

I love that pot! Do you know who made it?

...and because the thread demands:



phragmipedium schroederae from a few months ago. This one oddly decided to bloom in August when generally it's a reliable January bloomer for me.

 

[ABCarve]

Many years...they are sequential bloomers off the same inflorescence. Chop it and it might be a while before the plant decides to make another one!

I love that pot! Do you know who made it?

...and because the thread demands:

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phragmipedium schroederae from a few months ago. This one oddly decided to bloom in August when generally it's a reliable January bloomer for me.

Schroederae!!! I have a couple but haven’t got them to bloom. Any tips? The pot is mine.

 

[LittleDingus]

Schroederae!!! I have a couple but haven’t got them to bloom. Any tips? The pot is mine. View attachment 340387

Is that a miltonia x brassia of some sort? Man, this thread makes me miss all my orchids. I've only got a few these days...used to have over 100! Next house will have a greenhouse

I need to get rid of some of my schroeder...I've got 2 x 14" pots (4 large divisions in each pot) that are starting to get overcrowded! Mine sit on the floor in front of a south east facing glass door year round. Plenty of direct sun (through glass) in the summer...but inside. I've not had a problem with them burning. In the winter, that area is much cooler due to being so near such a large pane of glass. The cooler nights and shorter days seems to be what triggers them and I get blooms pretty regularly late January/early February. These blooms in August are a fluke for this plant! In fact, I had some smaller pots in hand and was just about to break up one of the pots to see if I could sell it off when I noticed that spike. Two of the plants in that pot were in spike so I set it back down and let them bloom Maybe next year I'll try again to sell off some extra divisions...

As for payment to the thread gods:



A competition with my grandson. He's in a different state. We each started with a packet of various seeds to see whose garden did the best Here's one of my sunflowers. High winds had bent it over...but it still wanted to flower! Yep...that flower is from the bent stalk! It didn't flower until almost a month after the stalk broke.

 

[Carol 83]

I love Serissa, but have failed at them in the past. I decided to try again this spring. So excited to see them doing well in November and actually blooming. Not sure why the picture is so grainy

 

[Carol 83]

Schroederae!!! I have a couple but haven’t got them to bloom. Any tips? The pot is mine. View attachment 340387

Awesome pot on the other one. You are a very talented potter.

 

[Japonicus]

Not sure why the picture is so grainy

I never did well with the one I had, or any other indoor bonsai wishing you luck!
Grainy, did you over crop it?

 

[Japonicus]

Oh dear, I gotta get outta this thread. You all doing orchids. Beautiful tempting orchids, oh my.
Itch-be-gone.

 

[Carol 83]

I never did well with the one I had, or any other indoor bonsai wishing you luck!
Grainy, did you over crop it?

Thanks, so far so good. I'm sure that's the problem, over cropped it.

 

[Carol 83]

Oh dear, I gotta get outta this thread. You all doing orchids. Beautiful tempting orchids, oh my.
Itch-be-gone.

Lol, most of mine are cheapies from Aldi's or Home Depot. Sit in my windowsill at work, water once a week. Easy, peasy. They bloom almost continuously.

 

[ABCarve]

Awesome pot on the other one. You are a very talented potter.

Thanks Carol. One of these days I’ll get around to making a “small” purple pot for ya. Btw Serissa is one of the bonsai 101 plants....I killed my fair share back in the early days. Congrats You seem to have figured it out.

 

[RJG2]

Bougie flowered when I brought it in for the fall. Bringing some much needed color to my basement office (which is where I set up my new indoor rack).

 

[Housguy]

Don't know what it is, but I like it!

 

[hinmo24t]

Don't know what it is, but I like it!
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hibiscus. flower looks like tropical version but the leafs say hardy