Here's the most exciting thing happening in my greenshed this year. I had dug up the the black-leafed hibiscus for overwintering - the one we can't seem to ID. It has bloomed for the first time! - although, it has never made a bloom outdoors during the summer.So I guess it just needs a longer season to mature into blooms than our summer - hard to imagine it lasting longer - ack. My guess on the plant is (from earlier discussions) that it is whatever Red Zinger tea is made from - the one they call 'diet tea' in Mexico because it is a diuretic. I am loving those petal veins and the color combination!
Ahhhh, All these greenhouse blooms - I want some too. Very pretty Maggie.
I'm doing the best I can, starting some plants under the lights. The early bedding plants for the hanging pots went in yesterday, today I'll get some easy to grow annuals started. This way I might have some blooms before the end of July.
tis lovely, mags
You need to update us on your new enclosed plant room thing Caro
MK, are you doing those in the warm living area of the house? Or do you use your enclosed porch for plant growing or overwintering pot plants? I guess it might be too large to heat for tropicals and maybe need added light fixtures for plants larger than early starts?
In the Greenshed 2003
Had the surprise of my life when I saw these blooms hanging off a shelf the other day.
I had been keeping a plant for a friend and ended up with many of its offspring,, hence its common name 'Mother of Thousands'. It is a tender Crassula - Kalanchoe daigremontiana, also known by ‘Devil's Backbone, or Mexican Hat Plant’. Babies spurt off the edges of each leaf and root wherever they land, so every pot on the patio ends up with these in them. But I had never seen one in bloom before.
It took me a while to figure out what the heck it was because the stem had snuck around the back of three pots before coming out to bloom. It roots are in the pot to the right of the fuchsia.
It must be wonderful to walk into the greenhouse in the middle of winter. Do you ever have to heat it?
Ah, this little shed is so tiny, but you are right, it really is nice to potter around in when its too miserable to garden outdoors. I keep a little radiator type heater in there for very cold temps. It circulates oil and uses less electricity than a light bulb, but can really put out the heat when needed.
There is such a serenity in moist little plant houses,, that it can become dangerously addictive. I had a decent sized, proper grnhouse at our last home. I enjoyed being in there so much that I had to have a phone extension put in, so as not to miss lotsa calls - back in the darkages before cordless and cell phones, or even answering machines :-0
By the way,, to Anon of the rooting Brug question,,,, the plants in the lower right of the above pic are potted up cuttings I took last fall from the Brugmansia in the pic where the ques was posted. They are well rooted, have put out lovely new foliage and will become little blooming bushes this summer. Dead easy.