Northeast Gardening: Vicarious winter gardening - or Show me da blooms!, 1 by sempervirens

sempervirens wrote:
Oh this is so bad. I have been using all my will power not to buy house plants. I get neglectful somewhere in the middle of the summer when the garden is in high gear, so only those of stout constitution that can survive outside for the summer endure. I didn't want to add to the chore of dragging plants in and out. Looking at the 2 beautiful blooming cactus Don Shirer posted and listening to the discussion on how to make them rebloom must have penetrated my subconscious. While in HD I saw a woman pass by with a well budded Thanksgiving cactus in her shopping cart. I had no intention of purchasing one but when I turned she roughly shoved the plant into an tiny empty spot on the plant table. I just wanted to make sure the plant was OK. I didn't want the plant until I a saw row after row of tiny "teeth" on the ends of the leaf segments. Buds, such unusual growth, I took a closer look. The plant came home with me, I blame all of you.

Fortunately they had no pink and red geraniums( wrong season of course) that I had started thinking how nice they would look blooming together in a line along the cool front window sill after seeing grammypheobes photo.Very festive for the holidays and not the dreaded poinsettia. Of course that would require moving all those plants to...

This message was edited Dec 2, 2007 4:55 PM