Appreciation for Flowers and Plants

RainstormZA

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I see there's no thread for this and I know some of us appreciate the outdoors, specially at our homes where we take pride in our gardens or in the case of flats or small places, potted plants.

Let me start here. My mother's violets, which I got for her for Mother's Day in June last year (just the end of May) before she came back from the UK. She was pleasantly surprised as we never have ever seen baby pink flowers. Mostly are dark colours like purple and almost off-blue. When I saw it in the shop, I knew I had to get it for her. Now it's flowered again after about 6 months and I saw it was not doing so well so I repotted it 2 months ago and found a baby growing off it so I split them both into their own pots.Amazing to say it is doing very well in a bigger pot now. The baby is doing quite well too, getting bigger every day.

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I also repotted our Chinese Privet bonsai and it's already flowering again, around the same time frame as the violets.

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And my treasured Zephyr Rain Lilies (Zephranthes Rosea)... I plan to plant more to fill a huge carpet of flowers next summer. The flowers are special as they only come up after a rain storm - they have flowered three times this summer to be exact.

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I collect Succulents
Orbea:
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Stapelia:
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Nice, @lesvaches!!! At the old house we used to have stapelia and brought one over to Mooiriver, only for it to die in the winter. It's far too cold - lots of frost and minus temps for 4 months...
 
Wow @Rob Fisher !
Talk about flowers and plants! That's amazing!
 
Aaaah these foxgloves bring sweet memories of my childhood. Used to pick the petals and put them onto my fingers and thumbs.

Hence the name fox gloves
 
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