African Violets and Gesneriads: Dec OT Blooms, 1 by plantladylin

plantladylin wrote:
Lovely family you have Nichole! Isn't it great to live in an area where you can do something like that on Christmas day, no Snow and Ice to contend with! I love, love, love the photo's of the beautiful snowy scenery and think it would be great to visit someplace like that in the winter time but I know I could only take the cold temp's for a couple of days! I'd have to buy a winter coat first too! I haven't owned a coat in 41 years! We are being blessed with temp's in the low 80's!

Went down to Fort Lauderdale to my sisters and family yesterday. Check out these humongous Bromeliad's she has growing in the front yard! They didn't even know what kind of plant they were and didn't know this was the bloom. They planted them two years ago and my sister said they have been waiting for flowers all this time and only get these ugly things growing out of them! Ugly?%*%! They are not into plants at all and I'm always taking cuttings of stuff from their yard! They have a tendency to get tired of plants and I KNOW in the near future they will end up pulling these up and throwing them out to replace with something else! They had about a 15' area out back full of pink knock out roses they planted and she didn't know they would get so tall ... hated them, dug them up and threw them away! Can you believe it? She knows when they decide to dig up those Bromeliads that I want one of them at least! They are the biggest Brom's I've ever seen!