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Blooming this December

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Thu Dec 12, 2019 3:35 pm

One of my color pots, pentas with some cold damage still hanging on, a rogue ixora blossom, and some shrimp plants.
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Thu Dec 12, 2019 9:14 pm

Looking wonderful Donna! I’ve got some containers I want to redo now that it’s not 100 degrees out. You plants look so fresh!
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Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:38 am

So lovely Donna. That is a remarkable color Shrimp Plant. Do you know what variety it is? Do birds use it?
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Sat Dec 14, 2019 2:39 pm

MissS wrote: Fri Dec 13, 2019 11:38 am So lovely Donna. That is a remarkable color Shrimp Plant. Do you know what variety it is? Do birds use it?
Justice brandegeana. It's supposed to be a hummingbird magnet, but I have never seen one bird on it.
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Sat Dec 14, 2019 2:42 pm

The calendula flower heads were too heavy for their stalks, so they flopped over. I fixed that by using a shish kabob skewers and a tiny butterfly hair clip.
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Sat Dec 14, 2019 2:56 pm

This Winter Jasmine blooms from Nov through Feb. It is what made me aware that Anna's hummingbirds stay here year round. Growing tied to a trellis and along the eaves of a patio roof. I can see it from inside the house through sliding glass doors. It blooms well through winter covered by the overhang. Where it sticks out there can be damage from harsh winter weather.

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Blooming this December/amaryllis and patchouli

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Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:43 am

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The spring migration for hummingbirds in the Houston area is March through May. For some reason I get very few birds during the spring migration, the majority of birds pass through during the fall migration which starts in August.

The tiny white blossoms are from a patchouli plant.

In my area the practice is to plant amaryllis bulbs in the ground and leave them there. They bloom around Easter. But every year the big box stores and most nurseries will sell amaryllis bulbs designed to bloom around Christmas. Here is an amaryllis Minerva from one of those bulbs that I picked up this year at Home Depot. After it's done I'll planted in the ground, it will skip blooming at Easter in 2020 this year but will bloom at Easter the year after.


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Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:33 am

Still blooming here, a fucshia with tiny leaves and tiny flowers then, tiny fruit. This one starts blooming later than regular sized fuchsias but keeps on until deep cold in pots under a fir and two beside the house.
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Fri Dec 20, 2019 2:55 pm

The photos of the birds with the fuchsia look like something from a Japanese garden.
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Three year old Poinsettia

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Fri Dec 20, 2019 3:00 pm

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Leaves are starting to turn red, right on time.
The plant is about three feet tall.
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Fri Dec 20, 2019 8:58 pm

Donna, do you do anything to force the color on the poinsettia, as so many insist you must, or do you let it do its thing, like the Conservatory in Pittsburgh does? (Not ones for the shows, but the ones they have living year-round in the Cactus room)

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Fri Dec 20, 2019 9:51 pm

I do absolutely nothing. In the coming days more and more leaves will turn red.
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Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:49 pm

Alright! Now I can see photos.
That patchouli is a plain Jane, isn't it? Does it have any scent to it?
Nice bi-colour Amaryllis.
The stores are full of poinsettias here now. Growers have to provide short days for them to have colour for Christmas.

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Patchouli

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Sat Dec 21, 2019 9:45 am

Growing Coastal wrote: Fri Dec 20, 2019 10:49 pm Alright! Now I can see photos.
That patchouli is a plain Jane, isn't it? Does it have any scent to it?
Nice bi-colour Amaryllis.
The stores are full of poinsettias here now. Growers have to provide short days for them to have colour for Christmas.


If you rub your fingers over the leaves of a patchouli plant the scent would be instantly recognizable. Sort of like doing the same thing to lemon balm in order to smell its scent.
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Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:04 pm

Love the hummingbird shots!
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