£1.97 from lidls
(http://www.lidl.co.uk/C1256C790050C7BC/images/GB.09_44427/$file/09_44427_b.jpg)
She will try and keep it for ever, but they don't last past 12th night if I can help it. Open window for 5 minutes usually does the trick
you mean you get to escape out the window but she shuts it after you ;D ;D
I bought one of them yesterday. The bracts were such a lovely dark red.
I managed to keep a plant for years, to the extent that the bracts were bonsified (dwarfed) ;D
Then I was stoopid enough to take the advice of a gardening 'exspurt', and cut the plant back. It died.
valmarg