Cute indoor flowers

VfM4meplse

I'm looking to bring a little OS happiness to my home this winter. I have a collection of expired scented candles I have just cleaned of unspent wax, and am left with the jars. I thought they would be pretty as small planters lined up in my kitchen window until the summer to replace my basil and rosemary plants which is now officially dead. The jars vary in size, generally between 150-500ml capacity.

I'd like to buy some seeds, or perhaps use a bulb in each jar. Can anyone recommend what I can plant now that is likely to thrive indoors (the kitchen never really gets hot) and bloom as spring approaches? A row of something bright and elegant would be lovely. Suggestions?

VfM4meplse

Anyone...? I am craving bright flowers.

peter_the_piper

Try buying the Rosanna Rosebud primroses, brilliant flowers and scented. Some have multiple heads like a poly.

daisygirlmac

I've got a really lovely cyclamen on a cool bright window sill but I have no idea if it's from a bulb or seeds mine was 75p from Morrisons as they were selling them off cheap but it does look lovely now it's in a nice pot and has been brought back to life.

peter_the_piper

Their grower would have started it from seed, it takes about 6-9 months to get to a saleable plant. If you feed it now and again it will flower for years, we have one on an east facing window(not to hot) and its been flowering for 3 years continuously. Repot after a year or two, try not to disturb the roots and you will have a plant for years.

yabajaz

I would place clean gravel/stones in the bottom, water just to the top of the stones and place a spring bulb (root down) we grow iris , mini daffs, hyasynths and a random white flower this way. My kids make up the 'dry' kits as Christmas pressies to bring a bit of spring into grandmas kitchen

VfM4meplse

Decided to try to force some crocuses indoors in the end.

On a lovely day like this it feels like we should have flowers, but outside of supermarkets and florists I haven't spotted a single daffodil!

lostinrates

VfM4meplse wrote: »

Decided to try to force some crocuses indoors in the end.

On a lovely day like this it feels like we should have flowers, but outside of supermarkets and florists I haven't spotted a single daffodil!

Still too early. though its very mild. Mine are shooting but not formed heads and I think they are early. Days like this are for snow drops, witch hazels, japonicas.......and spotting early buds!

VfM4meplse

Came home after a couple of nights away to find the first of my crocuses in the kitchen windowsill has peeped out of the soil (no sign of life for them outside, but the primroses and joyful from last year seem to be doing well). I look forward to having a row of vibrant flowers within a couple of weeks.

Here comes spring :T

VfM4meplse

3 shoots now, yay!

I saw some wild daffs in full bloom today in Islington of all places. and was sorely tempted to cut them and taken them home with me. The angel inside persuaded them to stop being such a selfish b*tch and leave them be for everyone to enjoy.

lostinrates

VfM4meplse wrote: »

3 shoots now, yay!

I saw some wild daffs in full bloom today in Islington of all places. and was sorely tempted to cut them and taken them home with me. The angel inside persuaded them to stop being such a selfish b*tch and leave them be for everyone to enjoy.

Haha, thought of this thread this morning.....I saw daffs in full bloom, lots of them, up in the village this morning, so mine should be a fortnight I hope. I'd hope indeed that means London daffs should be twinkling with yellow in places.


Oh, your crocus bulbs outside? Some of mine took a year to come up so if yours are newly planted don't despair this year...