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Produce => Non Edible Plants => Topic started by: Borlotti on March 10, 2017, 19:40:17
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I really have trouble with downloading pictures. My camellia is lovely in the garden, was a present for my birthday years ago from M & S. Thank you Alice. The Xmas ponsetti is OK, never had one so long before, thank you Morrisons.
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Wow your camellia is going for it how lovely!
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It cheers me up when I go outside, prefer the pink to the red, which I have at the allotment. Think I have had value from the ponsetti, only cost a £1.
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My poinsettia is still doing well and it is May. Normally they don't last that long.
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I make sure the stupid things die, used to use the pot as an ashtray, but since giving up I snick the window open a bit on a cold day. With a bit of luck after 30 years you would have thought she would get the message and stop buying the ugly things.
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My poinsettia is still doing well and it is May. Normally they don't last that long.
Agreed ! This is my one today
(http://i222.photobucket.com/albums/dd27/tgalmanac/8th%20May%202017/Poinsettia_zps6klak8ej.jpg) (http://s222.photobucket.com/user/tgalmanac/media/8th%20May%202017/Poinsettia_zps6klak8ej.jpg.html)
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Mines got some new growth coming through!
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yea mines still growing as well they usually die on me in the first week or so which the first one did So I went and bought one for the princely sum of £1.99 from L,,,ls and its still going and called me a lier as I told a friend they all die on me in the first month
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When I worked in service I had a collection of different colour poinsettias and I grew from year to year . When the bracts had finished I would let the plant go dry then cut then down to about 3 inches. They do not bleed once dry, I would store them under the greenhouse benches until about July, give a good drink then pot on if needed and restart them. I did not give them dark treatment although all the books say you must, I did quite a large arrangement of them at the bottom of the staircase each Christmas.
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Well mine only cost £1 from Morrisons, and still going strong, and in a small pot and I haven't changed the soil. Seems to like the light on the kitchen window ledge and the double glazed window. I like a poinsettia at Xmas, so there ACE, and I have learnt to spell it, even though I had to look it up. I suppose ACE is so miserable cause he had to give up smoking, what it not to like about a poinsettia. I also have a couple of orchids on the same window ledge, but they don't like too good, maybe I should stop watering them.