Winter Blooms
By ARM
@responsiveme (22926)
India
December 14, 2018 12:04am CST
Winter ,as I have already said before are our time for flowers.
One of the first to make an appearance are the chrysanthemums. My friend who is an avid gardener gets around to preparing them just as summer ends.
She has cuttings which she dips in some hormone solution and plants them in small paper cups. She takes care to segregate and label the little plants according to colour.She has a definite colour scheme in mind.
Once they develop roots and become hardy they are transplanted. A few months later, hey presto!The rich and bright colours liven up the garden
I am thankful for the bunch she sent over to adorn my sitting room.
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@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
14 Dec 18
I used to root plants all the time too.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 Dec 18
Don't you do it now?
Pretty late for you to be up. Goodnight sleep well
@allknowing (130066)
• India
14 Dec 18
This is the season for Mums,. I have them too but I only see tiny buds. Hope to have some blooms.
That is a pretty bouquet.
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@allknowing (130066)
• India
15 Dec 18
@responsiveme These flowers need cool weather and it is delayed here.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
15 Dec 18
It is,I do like the contrast.
I suppose they bloom at different places depending on the weather.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
15 Dec 18
@allknowing in between summer and winter
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@Shavkat (137212)
• Philippines
14 Dec 18
@responsiveme I will definitely agree with that.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 Dec 18
@Shavkat but there are many beautiful artificial flowers and some are very expensive...Still I prefer some simple real flowers
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 Dec 18
True, I prefer fresh flowers to plastic ones
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@MarshaMusselman (38652)
• Midland, Michigan
14 Dec 18
So, I'm a bit confused. You are in your winters there, but it's warm in your winters rather than in the summer months? Or people such as your friend grows her plants in the summer months, but transplants them for others to enjoy come winter?
Or, did you just finish your winter and are now close to your summer and just reverse the label to fit with the rest of us?
I grow mums and they are also sold in stores. Mine don't begin having flowers until late July August, just prior to the approach of fall weather. Mine will grow into the winter months if the snow is scarse. In fact, I planted a new one this fall and it was still doing reasonably well even after several snow falls we've had thus far.
I will look for my photo and upload it from my phone.
I may discuss this more once you answer my winter/summer questions.
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@MarshaMusselman (38652)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Dec 18
@responsiveme that would be much easier wouldn't it? Mums are our fall flower.
So it's too hot in the summer for anything to grow? Weird idea. I
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
15 Dec 18
Marsha, for us it is the winter that is the growing season.
Having said that , it will not apply to the parts of our country that is in the Himalayan mountain range.
For the rest summer is terribly hot, humid, rainy ...Nothing grows except annual shrubs.
Our winters are mild. Say about 15 centigrade, the sun shines softly, it is the dry month.
Actually we have six seasons.
After the summer comes autumn but it is not fall like yours.treens do not turn colour and shed leaves.
Then winter...Time for flowers, veggies , grain ripens...Harvest festival in mid January, picnics and oranges....Winter is short and we are sort of in the middle
Chrysanthemums are the early flowers.
I wish I could bring you here and show you instead of typing this out.
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@DianneN (246643)
• United States
15 Dec 18
@responsiveme I usually get pink, but my husband went out and bought orange. They were still very pretty. I used to get yellow. They are so bright.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
15 Dec 18
@DianneN do you grow flowers in your garden... Borders or do...You had posted a picture of the paving you were doing long time ago.
I guess a garden as big as yours is difficult to keep up without help.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
15 Dec 18
I bet they make a magnificent display.Do you have any favourite colours?
While there are big and show varieties which I like, I have a soft corner for the yellow button ones
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@sofssu (23662)
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14 Dec 18
My chrysanthemums have done blooming. They started in September and are now dying out.. I still have a few blooms after the second rush of blooms but hardly anything now.. the plants are browning and looking rather spent. I have that yellow which is pretty common here but not that deep purple. You do have a very generous friend.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 Dec 18
You are slightly warmer than us climate wise,I think.
Yes,she is generous
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@sofssu (23662)
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15 Dec 18
@responsiveme according to that logic we may have blooms later.. I wonder what cause the blooms to come up.. maybe the difference in day and night temperatures.. I should look this up.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
15 Dec 18
@sofssu I think they are in between hot summer and cold winters.
@responsiveme (22926)
• India
16 Dec 18
She is an avid gardener and knows all sorts of things
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
15 Dec 18
Yes, I would like to have it in my dress too
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 Dec 18
Yup, some people have a particular talent for gardening
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
14 Dec 18
Yes, those really make for a good contrast
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