House/greenhouse plants thread

gorgeous show! So many plants, so little time!
Thanks,
Martha

Didn't know Smith had a show....am drooling over those parrot tulips....

Robindog, Tulip Rococo is an old favorite of ours. They are one of the tulips that I try to buy and replant every except one when I forgot since 2006. They don't return very well, but last year Van Engelen was selling them at the regular price of 50 for 18.00, so I will have lots to drool over this spring. The Smith Greenhouses are full of other things too. I only took a few shots as I was with friends who had a time crunch. Patti

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The orchids are worth seeing.....I ordered parrot tulips 2 years ago, some were lovely last year, some never came up.....I'm hoping for some returns this spring....

Or his show is on at the NYBG.

Whose show?

He means Orchid Show. It is always amazing. Trying to go too.

Hee hee! Yes - sorry.

::::singing:::: Happy Easter to me

Pretty...I have one budded....

Hip Hip Hooray. Always love seeing a Hippeastrum. Most of mine will be blooming late this year as we planted them out in the garden and didn't dig them out until Oct. so they are going to be blooming in the late spring. OK by me. Patti

that bulb has been sitting on top of the soil of one of my plants in my bay window for a few years.. it rooted it's self.. and there it stayed.. looks happy right?.. there is another stem not far behind those two

Amazing. It loves your window and now you can love it. Patti

I've kept my amaryllis on my plant shelf for 3 years now, have not done anything to them except cut back the foliage in the fall.....one bloomed, one is budded, one grew new foliage, one has done nothing.....probably dead.

I didn't do anything at all except cut the dried up foliage off

I'm going to try to remember & plant them outside this year...and hopefully, remember to dig them back up!

These were several of my entries in the Amateur Horticulture competition at the Boston Flower Show. first one is three different ivies. the pots are attached to the saucer making it one unit. The judges liked the ivies, so I got an honorable mention, but they didn't think my pot was a "container" in the strictest sense of the word. What do you think? The next one is a dish of succulents that I rooted in 1998 from cuttings a fellow exhibitor gave me. the third one is a similar succulent garden made from divisions given to me by friends . the fourth is my ever popular "Camel" plant, which is a rooted caudex of Ponytail Palm. Took me 2 years to root that sucker! and the last one is my dish garden in a container that looks like a squash on the vine. I made that one for my garden club's dish garden workshop.
I love exhibiting. I have some things ready to go for a local garden club's flower show in April.
Martha

love the camel!!

Nice job! All very healthy looking......I exhibit at 1 fair in the fall......sometimes they get 25 or more entries for one flower, like hydrangeas.....some years I do well, some years not so great......

I understand that. The camel plant has several blue ribbons, including one from this flower show and several from others and from the boston show, a cultural certificate. It only grabbed an HM the year I tried to make it into a container garden. It just overpowered everything else, I guess. Depends on what the judges see each year!
Martha

That is for sure!

Martha, I did not get a chance to enter anything in the the flower show. After the big blizzard we had last month, my plants in the porch did not do as well. No heat out there, and I ended up having to move them all into the house when we lost our power for 2 days. They also took a hit before that with some frostbite on the alocasias. So they did look stop good anymore. I thought I had lost my tropical hibiscus, but it's coming back.

Going to catch up on this thread now.

Karen

Love all the pics from different places. I've been to Tower Hill's Orangerie a few times. Always love visiting that place.

Nice entries, Martha. Congrats on getting some HM's.

Karen

I don't mind what they get, Karen. I am the chair of the whole competition and there are people who enter who have much more spectacular plants than I do. I just love seeing what comes in the door every year to be judged. In fact, there was a huge Alocasia entered this year. Let's see if I can bring up the picture. Yep, there it is. Next to a huge crown of thorns and that magnificent Clivia. All stuff I wish I could grow, but have no room for.
Martha

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That's really nice! I especially like the clivia. The alocasia is bigger than my two. I have a small clivia that a friend have me this year. Don't know of it will boom this year or not. Can't wait till it does. I have an amaryllis that's getting ready to bloom. I brought it to my office to brighten up the place.

Karen

Our clivia is now about 30 years old and still blooming like clockwork though we have divided it many time to share with friends. It came from the flower show on the piers in NYC. We had to wait for quiet a few years for it to bloom the first time. Now awaiting a tiny yellow one to bloom that we got 2007 called Clivia Golden Dragon, but it looks like it will be another year though it is growing nicely. Patti

Just beautiful!

Those clivias are gorgeous, Patti. I was at Tower Hill Botanic Gardens today for a New England Daylily Society meeting, and saw some nice ones in bloom there.

Karen

Here are pics of my red amaryllis at my company's office. It's all done blooming now. :-(

Karen

And here are pics of a new amaryllis I picked up last weekend. It had 3 bloom stalks on it, so I couldn't resist!

Karen