Sunday, January 15, 2012

January Blooms

Clockwise from top, left, Tradescantia pallida, (also known as Setcreasea purpurea or Setcreasea pallida,) pink kalanchoe, Sambac jasmine, African violet, and yellow kalanchoe.

While we have no garden blooms in January, our dining room is home to houseplants and a few overwintering potted plants from the patio. The Setcreasea is in the basement with many other overwintering leafy and blooming things. All help freshen the indoor air. The jasmine's fragrance fills the dining room, and the other blooming things bring welcome color, life and beauty in the dead of winter.

The blooms we're most eagerly awaiting this month are the twin granddaughters expected to arrive any day now. :)

Happy Bloom Day, and for more January blooms, please visit Carol at May Dreams Gardens.

12 comments:

  1. Lovely! We need these helpers this time of the year!

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    1. They definitely brighten up winter Tatyana!

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  2. That's good for the soul, isn't it? I just had to buy flowers last Friday...I needed colors and bought therefore tulips. Well it will last a while until my own tulips in the garden will bloom, so I just enjoy those in the vases.
    Have a good start into the new week and I hope the twins want let you wait too long :o).
    Alex

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    1. I agree Alex - good for the soul! Hope you're enjoying the tulips.

      Still waiting patiently for the twins. We will be ready for them whenever they're ready to come.

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  3. Those are so pretty! Love the deep rose! xogail

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  4. The kalanchoe blooms are so delicate and lovely. It's nice to have some indoor blooms this time of year, but you must be so excited about the impending arrivals. Twin granddaughters--congratulations! I hope all goes well.

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    1. The anticipation and excitement about the babies trump anything else that's going on at the moment Rose! Thank you for your good wishes!

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  5. Good shots of those pretty dainty booms! And, I can almost smell the jasmine from here hehe...

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    1. Thank you Stephanie.

      I just love the scent of the jasmine blooms. They smell like summer!

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  6. Hi Linda! Is Tradescantia pallida commonly called wandering Jew? I had no idea it and spiderwort were int he same genus, though I guess I should have, based on their blooms. It's nice you have blooms year-round! My Xmas cactus is just done blooming now, but the paperwhites should start any day. Only, I seem to have gotten a non-stinky cultivar and, dagnabbit, I like the stink! (Not the actual smell, but that fact that they smell. I dunno why!)

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    1. Hi Monica! I've heard it called wandering Jew, purple queen, and purple heart. I do enjoy the year-round blooms! I like the purple foliage too.

      My Thanksgiving cactus still has buds, but they're tiny and most seem to eventually be falling off without blooming. It put on a nice show in November though.

      I'm not to keen on stinky flowers, at least not indoors. Hope you find some stinky paperwhites next time!

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