Show Us Your Houseplants In Bloom 2018

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    That is impressive! :dbgrtmb:
     
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      I'll try and get a pic of the flowers on the Chamaedora metallica, you'll really be impressed!!:heehee:
       
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        Chamaedora Metallica, there's a flower for you!!!:heehee:
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          My Rhipsalidopsis gaertnerii...............
          [​IMG]Rhipsalidopsis gaertnerii? by longk48, on Flickr
           
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            Billbergia pyramidalis variegata, I have kept this going through offsets for about ten years now, the flower are very short lived but worth keeping for the foliage alone.
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                Impatiens niamniamensis
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                  Begonia luxurians.
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                    pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                    Odd looking begonia flower Strongy:blue thumb:
                     
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                    True Pete and not very spectacular, it's the palm like foliage that is.:smile:
                     
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                      Clerodendrum ugandense is full of flower now but they are incredibly sticky.
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                        I've felt plants in the past up garden centres and it really messes your fingers up :snorky:
                         
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                          Hi Nigel this does look like a very fragile plant but the flower colouring is :wub2:
                           
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