It’s time to show off what’s blooming in and around my casa.
Starting with Candy, a Lime tree in the foyer:
I love the scent of those blossoms!
Also, legitimate new bracts on the Bougainvillea (she was blooming when she came in for the winter, all those blooms fell off several weeks after she came in).
Yay for new flowers! She’s in prime real estate, a south facing window. Probably eager to get back outside, showing off with her early bracts.
Nel, a Chlorophytum comosum ‘Spider’ plant, has been blooming forever:
And oh hey, it snowed in downtown Albuquerque!
There’s nothing blooming outside, it is January afterall.
Special thanks to Carol over at May Dreams Gardens for suggesting we post photos of blooms on the 15th of each month.
And photos of snow, since that hardly ever happens here.
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January 15, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Lea
Beautiful blooms!
Happy Garden Bloggers’ Bloom Day!
Lea
Lea’s Menagerie
January 16, 2013 at 5:21 pm
goodtogrow
Thank you, Lea! I appreciate it!
January 15, 2013 at 7:43 pm
vastpalette
Oh so Lovely!
January 15, 2013 at 7:44 pm
vastpalette
Also, I love the new banner!
January 15, 2013 at 10:32 pm
Tina
I agree Ms. Vastpalette. How fun it must be to “re-decorate” a blog banner AND share lovely blooms. I can almost smell them here in Canada !
January 16, 2013 at 5:21 pm
goodtogrow
Thanks to both you and Tina, Alissa. I’m still playing around with the look I’d like, thanks for your patience!
January 16, 2013 at 5:21 pm
goodtogrow
You’re lovely, Alissa!
January 15, 2013 at 9:38 pm
Nancy Popp Mumpton
Your boug looks like she could use a shot of iron to turn her leaves green again. Ironite has a nice liquid iron that works fast on potted plants.
January 15, 2013 at 10:25 pm
Tina
Hi Nancy! This past summer I bought a “boug” hanging basket from Home Depot. The bracts were that amazing magenta colour and it did very well until fall came and I brought it into the house (less light, heat, you know the story). Well so many leaves fell off that I almost gave up on it. So I gave it a drastic pruning, kept watering it just so, and put it in a southern exposure window (in our bedroom no less) which I should have done in the first place. It is growing well with pale green leaves but no bracts. I do not keep the soil too wet as Liza says it does not like wet feet. Should I prune it back? Would this encourage bracts to form? I have cut back a little on the daily weak fertilizing. By the say, this is how I came across this blog late last year. I had been looking up “bougs” and found Liza’s blog !!
January 16, 2013 at 5:23 pm
goodtogrow
She’d probably also appreciate not being half drowned to death two weeks ago. That’s why I’m astonished at the bracts. She’d been swimming, but I caught it really early (except not early enough that her leaves got washed out).
January 15, 2013 at 10:30 pm
Tina
How beautiful are your blooms! I wish that we could get citrus blooms from florists around here in Canada. I wonder if florists put them in arrangements in the States? Maybe I will bite the bullet and buy a well-established citrus plant from a greenhouse. When I worked at a greenhouse just west of Toronto, we grew many citrus and the scent was oh so lovely…….now the greenhouse is gone and there is a plaza and parking lot.
January 16, 2013 at 5:26 pm
goodtogrow
Tina, bummer about your greenhouse! That’s happened a lot here, too. I have never seen citrus blossoms used by florists – I think they are too short-lived. I’ve never regretted buying a tree for inside my house – every winter I’m reminded of what a great decision that was. My whole foyer smells divine!
January 15, 2013 at 11:49 pm
Nancy Popp Mumpton
I don’t grow bougs indoors since I live in the Phoenix area and they do great outside all year long. Personally I wouldn’t feed daily. They don’t need fertilizer to bloom. The Ironite I mentioned is for the leaves that are yellowish with green veins. It is definitely true that bougs don’t like a lot of water, but they love heat and sun. They will bloom best under those conditions. Since it is winter in Canada your plant may realize this fact and be reluctant to put out bracts. Don’t give up on it. I would keep it as you have it in a sunny southern exposure and let it be–just watering as needed. If it has yellowing leaves, give it a fertilizer with iron in it occasionally. I’ll bet in the spring you will start getting flowers. Don’t prune it now. The flowers develop as the canes grow out.
January 16, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Tina
Thanks so much Nancy! I will try to find Ironite here. So far the veins aren’t showing, but they are on my bay laurel plant that I keep inside now, but outside in the summer. It does not respond to just regular weak fertilizer. So happy that you can keep many plants outside in Phoenix in the winter.
January 16, 2013 at 5:29 pm
goodtogrow
Tina, my Boug’s leaves are washed out because I overwatered her a few weeks ago. I’m going to find some product to take Nancy’s advice for restoring her look. But I’m not worried about her – as soon as the weather is nice enough for her to be outdoors again, she’ll rebound. Just like yours.
January 16, 2013 at 5:27 pm
goodtogrow
I agree with Nancy. Mine are only indoors because they would’ve died outside in our cold winter. Tina, Bougainvilleas usually bloom off pruning, so I would take Nancy’s advice and leave yours alone. Once you put it outside in the spring, it should erupt in growth.
January 16, 2013 at 1:48 am
Kim
Congrats on your Lime tree bloom. I fear growing citrus trees indoors now since my unfortunate mealybug incident a few years back, in which I had to throw out my beloved lemon tree, along with the wooden plant stand it was sitting on (which they were living on too). I haven’t mustered up the courage yet to grow one indoors again.
January 16, 2013 at 3:43 pm
Tina
Hi Kim. I would give it another shot and just keep checking for the darn mealy bugs. There is nothing like having a happy blooming citrus tree in your house I bet.
January 16, 2013 at 5:30 pm
goodtogrow
Tina, you’re like my personal ambassador! I feel like you should be on the payroll somehow, haha! Thank you so much!
January 16, 2013 at 5:30 pm
goodtogrow
Kim, I hear you. Mealies are a bitch, and very difficult to avoid these days. My Lime has tussled with them, for sure. I would encourage you to keep trying, because the rewards are worth the effort!
January 16, 2013 at 2:13 pm
commonweeder
The only citrus in my house is the box of Mayer lemons from a Sacremento friend with a Mayer Lemon hedge! Nice post. I really like the bouganvilla.
January 18, 2013 at 12:07 am
goodtogrow
Thank you so much! I love those bougs, too! Sounds like your Sacramento friend is a good soul!
January 17, 2013 at 2:24 am
Gardening On A Dime
Citrus blooms indoor, in January. Your home must smell wonderful. Looks like spring has sprung indoors for you. Thank for the great closeup photos.
January 18, 2013 at 1:39 am
goodtogrow
Thanks so much for stopping by. And yes, the foyer smells divine. Those blooms spoil me!