Let’s share January blooms or anything pretty
socks
3 years ago
last modified: 3 years ago
This one just getting started
I love the way aeonium kiwi brightens up in winter. It will get even better than this in the weeks ahead.
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Want Pretty Blooms NOW! - in January?
Comments (4)Thanks, Al, for another well written piece of gardening interest! I've been cutting and forcing late winter/early spring branches for as long as I can remember. As kids, my Dad would take us hiking to look for trees and shrubs with this specific purpose in mind. One of our favorites for cutting and forcing has always been the pussy willow. As I remember, though, we always took this hike a little later than January... sometime in February, I believe it was. I just happen to have a Pink French pussy willow tree/shrub that's marked for a drastic pruning... it will make a wonderful subject for forcing. JoJo, I hate to see you left out... let me see if I can swing a quick shipping your way... I don't know for certain if it would work, but I'd love to send you some forcing enjoyment from the frozen tundra of the north! ;-) Which reminds me... as soon as the weather breaks, I'll have a package for you. I'll email. Well, Al... you've successfully planted the notion that spring is not all that far away, and for those of us sitting under snow and ice, who never quite get used to the long winter season, this is wonderful news! I'm off to find my good pair of shears!...See MoreJanuary blooms (2015)
Comments (66)EH- that is very nice bloom on your sans. I didn't know they bloom until about 1.5 ago when someone posted photo here. Crenda- another of your beautiful plants. How great it is to be able to have them outside year-round. dm- your jade has nice red coloring on the leaves, and the flowers are bonus. Just like your aloe (hope it will get ID-ed), your plants have a great GH to winter over. What is the plant left of it? Do you have other succulents? David- tell us...how they taste... Rina...See MoreJanuary blooms ?
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Comments (28)=) made it back to this thread to be able to post more now that I have some time to study. This is definitely is not studying, but it is my own social media interaction with friends so I need to take few minutes and then resume. Sylvia I really like your pictures, Moonstone is my number one hybrid tea. There is something lovely about a delicate white rose with that pink edge. It also makes a wonderful cut rose. I like your stone fence, do you have any plans for climbing roses? They would look amazing. Daisy and Desmond are just adorable =) Oldrosarian your picture of Cinderella left me amazed and drooling over it. What an impressive gorgeous globular rose. I then saw your shot with all the brown blooms and was a bit disappointed. Is this what happens to that rose every time it rains or something made it happen this one time? I recently planted 4 pomponellas and I think they may also turn this ugly brown as they fade requiring diligent deadheading. I am a complete crazy lady for the globular blooms tho and your rose is just spectacular. Thank you for sharing. Thank you Ingrid you entire yard is just magnificent. I don't know how you got that giant rock, but it adds another layer or charm and it fits in very well in the landscape. I love everything t you have done and it just seems to flow very well showing that you have a fantastic eye for design besides being a great gardener. Pippa I think you have made a huge change and I like the way you started doing. Everything looks organized and well planned. I have to admit to being very impulsive in the garden scene and just planting lots of stuff every where then neglecting to weed it. Your garden looks neat and clean, with good textures and great attention to detail. Which roses do you have planted in that large bed? HalloBlondie those pictures certainly count! Huge difference in a yard with such impressive winter cover. Everything looks so alive now and beautiful. Vapor your ballerina on that balustrade looks like out of a Spanish castle magazine. I love the soft girly look of that rose and feel like it looks wonderful paired with anything. Is that lamb's ear showing up in your picture? I don't have any, but have seen it at lowes and always wondered if it would be a good companion plant....See More
Alain (Pacifica, CA;10a)
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoEuphorbia bravoana
Massonia depressa (first time bloomer:)
Mammillaria Un Pico
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3 years agoSoCal Stewart (San Diego, Ca Zone 10A/10B)
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3 years agowhat!?! I had no idea jades can get that rambunctious, socks. I don't grow jades so--are they scented?
@SoCal Stewart (San Diego, Ca Zone 10A/10B): Semps are all-season performers, fortunately. I like them best in winter since it's the only time I can kinda tell the species apart.
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Matt z5b - Greenhouse 10a
3 years agoAll the echeveria blooms are coming. Until then there's this pink jasmine vine along with the citrus.
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3 years ago@SoCal Stewart (San Diego, Ca Zone 10A/10B)
That pot of semps started with this, a 12-inch diameter terracota bowl in 2013. By 2014 it looked like this:
Then, that pot fell apart one winter and I didn't want to replant so I just plopped the whole thing in a bigger pot:
I guess the original pot has disappeared under all that semps.
@socks that euphorbia is blowing my mind.socks thanked Pagans g
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Euphorbia milii
Parodia tephracanthus (must have got my finger in view....)
Ferocactus fordii
Acanthocalycium violaceium
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3 years ago
stupidlazydog CT zone 5b/6a
3 years agoMy little Schlumbergera 'Variegated Norris'... hopefully next year it will have more than one flower :-)
Thanksgiving cactus? Christmas cactus? Kind looks in between to me.
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3 years ago- socks thanked SoCal Stewart (San Diego, Ca Zone 10A/10B)
Jamie Reynolds Zone 9b
3 years agoMy aloha fire! Can you believe I got this for $1 without a single bloom?! Lowe’s was about to throw it away!
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3 years agocactusmcharris, interior BC Z4/5
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoHe's partially wearing Air Force gloves, but the Aloe isn't bad. A. (or whatever it might be called now) ramosissima.
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3 years agoAlways 'Echinofossulocactus' zacatecasensis
courtesy of that McFryer of McFryerburgers
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoBack to the damn Aloes,
this one A. thraskii, courtesy of Jim Bishop.
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3 years agoI really have nothing blooming. I'm going for subjectively pretty.
Titanopsis schwantesii
Adromischus marianiae "Sphaeroid Red"
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Edie
3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoRhipsalis bloom. I don't know the species, can anyone ID for me?
So small!
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoPoinsettia "Picasso" is still holding on to its color.
Mini cyclamen, variety unknown.
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3 years agoNot blooming but still beautiful aeonium kiwi. They are so miserable in the summer I almost wonder if they’re going to die.
Pagan
3 years agoPretty by virtue of still being alive three months after sowing. Cheiridopsis pecularis and Agyroderma testiculare. Seeds from Mesa Gardens
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