Show Us Your HousePlants In Bloom Now 2023/2024

Achimenes
As I left mine out all winter, it is only just a couple of inches high.

 

Mine are from a GC member who sent me a very good selection, these two appear to be the most compact I'm finding.

 

This was my one bloom last year in November started from one seed/corm called Hot Spot Double ... ...

 

My achimenes pots didn't get good places this year, overcrowded and leggy, didn't pinch tops at the early stage. Still flowering well. Plus gloxinia and some avs. Total chaos:

 

Peperomia quadrangularis

 

My neglected achimenes - night view from the outside:

 

They are stunning, such wonderful bright colours.

My one is in the right hand edge of this pot with Oxalis triagularis purpurea (you can just see it coming up). Last year it bloomed in November!



On the other side is Brunfelsia pauciflora, yet to bloom.

 

Bougainvilleas in flower.

 

I know it's less traditional but I love the white one @strongylodon

 

It's Fishbone cactus (Epiphyllum Angulier) time again!

The plant was a tad unhappy with the house move and dropped the fist buds, but chucked out 12 new ones for us to enjoy one after another.

The buds start to swell in the morning but open after dark and wilt down by the next morning. It's so fascinating to watch them to start opening and smell them releasing their strong, vanilla- citrusy scent.

 

Looks amazing. I have never seen the flowers before. Did you have to wait years for it to start flowering?

 

Schlumbergera has come into flower early.


Three Bougies.

 

Another Schlumbergera, I thought with the red buds it would be red or pink but it appears to be an Peachy colour which looks like another modern hybrid.



The insectivorous Butterwort (Pinguiculia) has hardly stopped flowering in over a year.

 

@strongylodon we have a pinguicula (not sure which one as we have had it for decades...and I do mean decades). It has been in flower for many years now and at first it would flower and then make winter rosettes and then in the spring grow more and flower. Now it doesn't seem to have a winter spell. We grow them in a trough which sits in another trough full of rain water and it is on our kitchen window sill. Causes some problems for the bees as they see the flowers from the window and keep coming onto them but to no joy. Amazing plants and so good for catching those very small flies.

 

Schlumbergera, buds are pure white but inner petals are streaked with pink. The buds have only just opened on this one. I also have a bright pink one which has already been flowering for a couple of weeks.