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Baa Nov 03, 2001

I was tempted to buy a few plug plants for hanging baskets. One of the plants was a small weedy looking variegated Felicia. It never did go in a hanging basket but it did go into a container where is bushed out and presented us with large blue rayed daisy flowers for the whole of the Summer. It was still flowering when the containers were put in the greenhouse.

That was 4 Springs ago, the Felicia is now a large bushy plant, living in the same container and amazingly has never stopped flowering, not once, not even for a day. I keep thinking it must be getting near to exhaustion but its just as alive as ever. This plant cost less than $1, its certainly paid for its keep!

Anyone else have a plant which never seems to take a break?



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Kathleen Panama, NY(Zone 5a) Nov 03, 2001

The johnny-jump-ups - viola tricolor, even under the snow, they will still be blooming their little hearts out. I expect he hellebores to bloom through the winter, but the j-j-us just won't quit. And then, there's the cyclamen that I moved, moved again, dropped the chimney on, buried in soot and there it is with 6 blooms and more buds putting out leaves through the hardscrabble of old chimney crud and happy as a clam. I don't have a greenhouse or really any room for house plants except under the lights in the back room, but I did bring the gerbera daisies in the year and the red one has already bloomed. Perhaps it will be a wonder plant - I'm good with the outdoor stuff where god can help me out, but when the plants are dependent on me alone, it becomes a question of not if they will die, but when!

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