Amarylis's Home garden
Garden Type: Indoor | Sun: Indoor | Soil: Potting Mix | Established: 2001 | Organic
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I grow many plants indoors as well as outside on the balcony or on the allotments. Up till now I’ve included house plants in my Balcony Garden so I thought it was about time I started a home/indoor garden. I have many plants that are not frost resistant therefore can’t stay out on the balcony from mid-October to May.
The photos show a few of the plants I have currently, even though the dates may be be from earlier years, growing in my home.
The 1st Photo shows one of two African Violets my wife & I bought in the middle of October 2011. They were being sold at a greatly reduced price but there is absolutely nothing wrong with them. If I’d wanted to we could have bought them at their original price before reduction & I’d have been happy. Obviously I’m even happier at buying them for a much lower price!
The 2nd photo is of a variegated Busy Lizzy (No, this one wasn’t reduced!) on the whim of the moment when I saw it in the supermarket where my wife works. It’s called Fiesta Ole Peppermint & has lovely rosebud like double pink flowers. I fell in love with it the moment I saw it! Unfortunately it’s not looking very happy at the moment.
The 3rd is of an Easter Cactus, a flowering succulent I have been growing from fallen leaves found on the plant stand at the supermarket. Knowing how easy they are to root I picked them up, took them home & in a couple of weeks had new plants & they have been with me ever since (perhaps 8-9 years!). I also have Christmas Cactus, obtained by the same method! These also continue to grow & flower every year. In fact I have one on the kitchen windowsill that is full of buds about to open!
The 4th photo is of a “Blood Lily” (Scadoxus multiflora) I got from a fellow gardener in Scotland a few weeks ago. It won’t flower till the spring
The last photo shows a Dragon Tree, again a plant my wife bought at least 8-9 years ago, with a Jasmine growing up it. The Dragon tree has lost a lot of its leaves & is twisted because I turn it around about once a year as it grows towards the light from the small window in a corner of our living room making it difficult to close the curtains during the winter months.
For some years my wife has been hankering after a Jasmine. I grew one on our balcony in Spain many years ago & she always remembers its scent. Finally this year I came across one in the supermarket where she works & as it wasn’t long to her birthday I bought it for her. Once the flowers had finished it occurred to me to put it on top of the Dragon tree pot & train the vines around the tree. That would serve as a support for the Jasmine & at the same time hide the rather ugly stems of the tree! In the same pot there is a surviving plain green Tradescantia. As the pot is in a raised plant stand made out of bamboo, which my wife bought specifically for the Dragon tree, it occurred to me that I could put a few cutting of the plain green Tradescantia around the sides so that it would hang down. I did that & it looked really good for a couple of years then for some unknown reason practically all of the plants died off! Now there is one surviving piece still growing in the pot.
During the winter I have lots of pots of Amaryllis on the windowsills of the 2 bedrooms & the kitchen. The kitchen window measures almost 3m long & I have the pots in two tiers – with the succulents mentioned above making a third tier! I have so many Amaryllis because I grew them from my own seeds which I sowed 5 years ago. In their 4th year they flowered for the 1st time. This year, 5th, they flowered again. For the last two years I’ve been taking them down to the allotment in June & bringing them back home in October. Just today, 22nd October 2011, I brought home the very last of the pots. I’ve had to stack them in two tiers in the two bedroom windows, as well as the kitchen! There flower profusely in April all the way through to June & sometimes a few will flower during the summer if they didn’t flower in the spring. One even surprised me with red flowers with a white stripe down the centre of the petals when we returned from a short holiday, visiting family in Spain, on 2nd October! I’d never before had a flower so late!
There are always a few plants on the living room table & the two new African Violets are on there now as well as the Busy Lizzy mentioned above. There is also a Cyclamen, nice deep pink flowers, that we also got for a song! This comes in its own ceramic bowl & are normally significantly more expensive! There is also a Spider plant that has been on the table all summer & is throwing out long stolons with lovely tiny, white, star-shaped flowers! The mother plant is in the kitchen & I’ve had it for 5 years or more! Just a couple of days ago I started to bring in a Calamondin. It was a present from my daughter 2 years ago. It has 2-3 tiny fruits, still green, on it. It sits outside on the balcony table all summer & I bring it in about the middle of October. I’ll continue to put it outside when the days are sunny & mild, as they are at present. I also have started to bring in a lovely pink & white flowered Pelargonium that my wife brought home from work one day, months ago. It has not stopped flowering since she bought it! It also will go outside when the weather permits.
Amarylis's Home garden is an indoor organic garden located in Huntingdon, United Kingdom and currently contains 38 plants.
This is a Indoor garden that is known to be in USDA Hardiness Zone 8a. It has mainly Potting Mix soil and receives Indoor light.Photos
Plantings
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Busy Lizzies potted up Day 5
Impatiens walleriana
Purchased on 15 May 13 Last Wednesday (16th May) my wife bought me a t...
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African Violet (miniatures) Day 39
Saintpaulia
Sown on 11 Apr 13 About a month or so ago I received a parcel fro...
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Tomato 'Marmande' sown Day 45
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 05 Apr 13 Today I sowed the seeds of Tomato 'Marmande' wh...
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Amaryllis 'Anglo-American hybrids' Day 63
Hippeastrum
Transplanted on 18 Mar 13 I sowed some seeds from my Amaryllis 'Anglo-Ame...
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Florists cineraria Day 67
Pericallis x hybrida
Established on 14 Mar 13
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Tomato 'Marmande' Day 70
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 11 Mar 13
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Tomato 'Sunbaby' Day 70
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 11 Mar 13
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Tomato 'Gardener's delight' Day 70
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 11 Mar 13 One of five that came in a packet I bought in M...
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Tomato 'Garden pearl' Day 70
Solanum lycopersicum
Sown on 11 Mar 13 These Tomato seeds 'Garden Pearl' were part of ...
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Tomato 'Moneymaker' Day 73
Solanum lycopersicum
Purchased on 08 Mar 13
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Tomato 'Marmande' Day 73
Solanum lycopersicum
Purchased on 08 Mar 13
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Tomato 'Garden pearl' Day 73
Solanum lycopersicum
Purchased on 08 Mar 13
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Tomato 'Sunbaby' Day 73
Solanum lycopersicum
Purchased on 08 Mar 13
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Tomato 'Gardener's delight' Day 73
Solanum lycopersicum
Purchased on 08 Mar 13
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Sweet pepper 'Piquillo de Lodosa' Day 77
Capsicum annuum var. annuum (Grossum Group)
Sown on 04 Mar 13 The seeds of Sweet pepper 'Piquillo de Lodosa' ...
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Potato 'Rocket' Day 110
Solanum tuberosum
Sown on 30 Jan 13
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Christmas cactus Day 167
Schlumbergera buckleyi
Established on 04 Dec 12
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Amaryllis Day 270
Hippeastrum
Transplanted on 23 Aug 12 My Amaryllis are still producing more buds! I h...
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Guzmania Day 282
Guzmania
Purchased on 11 Aug 12 This plant is doing very well in our kitchen It...
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African violet Day 367
Saintpaulia
Purchased on 18 May 12 African Violets given to me by our daughter for...
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Amaryllis x 'Sydney' Day 385
Hippeastrum
Sown on 30 Apr 12
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Amaryllis '-' AVAILABLE FOR SWAP Day 389
Hippeastrum
Sown on 26 Apr 12
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Hippeastrum
Established on 11 Mar 12 This Amaryllis 'Pinky' was sent to me in March ...
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Fuchsia
Sown on 24 Jan 12
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Wandering jew (Tradescantia zebrina pendula) AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Tradescantia zebrina
Established on 18 Jan 12 Tradescantia zebrina pendula or 'Spiderwort' or...
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Tradescantia fluminensis (Green Wandering Jew/Spiderwort) AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Tradescantia fluminensis
Established on 15 Jan 12 Tradescantia fluminensis (Green Wandering Jew/S...
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Spiderwort (Tradescantia zebrina pendula) AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Tradescantia zebrina
Sown on 07 Jan 12 Spiderwort (Tradescantia zebrina pendula) is al...
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Scadoxus multiflorus
Sown on 14 Nov 11
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Pelargonium x domesticum
Established on 31 Oct 11 My wife brought me home this Pelargonium some m...
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Wandering Jew or Tradescantias AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Tradescantia zebrina
Established on 30 Oct 11 This is another of those plants that seem to be...
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Chlorophytum comosum
Established on 30 Oct 11 I've grown Spider plants at home for many years...
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Schlumbergera buckleyi
Established on 22 Oct 11 I've been growing flowering succulents, Christm...
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Hatiora gaertneri
Established on 22 Oct 11 Like my Christmas Cacti these Easter Cacti came...
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Saintpaulia
Established on 22 Oct 11 Another plant, African Violets, that I have gro...
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Amaryllis AVAILABLE FOR SWAP
Hippeastrum
Established on 21 Oct 11 I have been growing Amaryllis at home ever sinc...
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Saintpaulia
Purchased on 14 Oct 11
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Hippeastrum
Established on 14 Jul 11 I have moved my Amaryllis from the allotment ba...
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Dracaena marginata
My wife bought this as a small plant quite a fe...
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