New house plants [Archive]

dandysmom

26-08-2010, 08:13 PM

When they need retail therapy, some women buy shoes... I buy house plants!! Got three nice new little ones to brighten things up as Autumn and the darker and colder days are coming. They're small now, have been repotted and hopefully will soon resemble their catalogue pics. :D

Yellow Christmas cactus

http://www.catsey.com/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d117/dandysmom/Non%20Cat/DSCN1359.jpg%5B/IMG%5D
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d117/dandysmom/Non%20Cat/DSCN1359.jpg

Thornless Crown of Thorns

http://www.catsey.com/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d117/dandysmom/Non%20Cat/DSCN1361.jpg%5B/IMG%5D
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d117/dandysmom/Non%20Cat/DSCN1361.jpg

Weeping blue ginger

http://www.catsey.com/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d117/dandysmom/Non%20Cat/DSCN1363.jpg%5B/IMG%5D
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d117/dandysmom/Non%20Cat/DSCN1363.jpg

calismum

26-08-2010, 08:18 PM

Hope the grow on well for you. Had to google the weeping blue ginger - love it. Hope it flowers.

dandysmom

26-08-2010, 08:40 PM

It has one little flowering shoot now; hopefully more soon; it's supposed to be a prolific bloomer. And I do love blue flowers.

calismum

26-08-2010, 08:43 PM

It has one little flowering shoot now; hopefully more soon; it's supposed to be a prolific bloomer. And I do love blue flowers.

Me too - my garden is mainly blues, lilacs, pinks and creams.

dandysmom

26-08-2010, 08:46 PM

This is what it will look like when older:

http://www.logees.com/images/R1832-2-small.jpg

calismum

26-08-2010, 08:50 PM

Oh DM - that is stunning.

dandysmom

26-08-2010, 08:56 PM

I hope it does well. Remember the blue impatiens I was so anxious to have last season? It was striking wen young but became very leggy and unattractive as it matured, so didn't bother over wintering it. :( Win some, lose some.

Tink

26-08-2010, 09:59 PM

i don't know much about plants but the thornless crown of thorns really appeals to me :D

dandysmom

26-08-2010, 10:46 PM

I didn't know there was a thornless variety! I had the thorny one for years: a friend's mother died and as he wasn't a plant person, gave me hers; it was huge. But eventually needed repotting, and that is almost impossible for a person to do alone, the plant is so spiny! So it eventually died after about 10 years :(. The little pinkish flowers are the same on this one. Hope it does well.

This what a regular one with thors looks like:

http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/2004/03/26/Happenstance/e8e1e6.jpg

Shelley123

26-08-2010, 10:56 PM

I love the weeping Blue Ginger, Eileen. I've never heard of it before.

angieh

26-08-2010, 11:49 PM

I hope they do really well. The blue ginger appeals to me too.