08-12-2018, 11:43 AM
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Re: Your favourite Christmas plant
Originally Posted by Julie1962
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They never flower two years straight when we put them outside they flower next spring, not first spring, we only started putting them out because we could never get them to flower second time indoors.
Bit more info please Julie?
Are you saying they bloom about 18 months after the original flowering?
When do you put them out, straight after flowering?
Do you leave them in pots or plant them in the soil?
Doesn't the frost kill them?
08-12-2018, 11:51 AM
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Re: Your favourite Christmas plant
They flower indoors at christmas, we put them in the garden when the frosts are over so they can finish dying down. Once leaves are gone they sit there until next spring and then they put up leaves. They die down again in the autumn and you should then see a flower head arriving in that spring, some of ours put up leaves first but most put up the flower bud and stalk. They flower about may/june time we find. Following year just leaves. Year after flower again. I think they might be called biannuals doing that ? not sure but they flower every other year.
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