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Love the plant Janey!
A very Happy Christmas to you and Best Wishes for the New Year.
Looking forward to seeing you next year. x

Thanks ladies. Yes Janey I am really over the moon with this particular variety. It is so pretty! As I get older I seem to enjoy paler colours more.

hope you have a great Christmas too.

For now I'd water it sparingly, so only a hint of water on the bottom of the container. It looks like a Phalaenopsis type.
When the flowers fade I'd be tempted to tip the orchid out and repot in orchid compost and use the glass as a vase.

Happy Holidays to you!

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas!

Love this plant but I've never had much luck growing it here. Not sure why!

Lovely! Merry Christmas to you and yours.

Never heard of this one, but a google search told me the fruit is rather like a mangosteen.

One of my favourite fruits. We eat a lot of them at Christmastime.

They make a fantastic screening plant.

I've never actually tasted a sapodilla.

The perfume will be amazing.

Gorgeous colour.

Love the form and the colour of this one.

Thanks so much Janey.

Thanks Linda. Chances of a cool Christmas Eve are slim, but that would be lovely.

So prettyJaney..it looks a double one? Merry Christmas to you toox

Ha ha,Janey,hope your successful...it is quite popular in GCsx

I'm the same as you Shirley, I've never grown them but often thought about having a potted one for winter. Looking at yours Julia, I mustn't dither next year..:)

Merry Christmas to you too BB. You've lovely decorations, enjoy the festive season.

Thank you Hywel.

That's very pretty Janey,
Merry Christmas to you x

Thanks Balcony, Merry Christmas to you !

Thank you all :)

Happy Christmas Hywel..

They really are lovely Karen, you must be so pleased with them.

Happy Christmas to you and your family Balc..

Have a lovely Christmas Hywel. I love your stable, it tells the Christmas story about love and hope....

Never seen a poinsettia that colour Karen. Very special.

Happy Christmas to you Bernie, and let's hope it's a cool Christmas eve so that Santa and his team can deliver all the presents o.k.......

The SF Bay Area is still not warm enough for crotons. I know it’s getting warmer, but not warm enough yet.

My crotons are growing and flowering like crazy, right now. We’ve had record highs throughout San Diego County in the last three days. Mid-80’s for a lot of inland areas, low 80’s here where I live.

I bet they cut them down. They had a few very beautiful Chambeyronia ‘Watermelon’ palms and they grow to the ceiling and they cut them down. The big gate was right next to the palms, also. Crazy!

Yes, I was so surprised it grew so well outdoors for two years. My biggest mistake was bringing it indoors and forgetting about it. It got infested with bugs which killed the heart.

Merry Christmas F'few and thankyou, I'm certainly looking forwards to a new gardening year, although I can't really say that this year has ended yet as regards my garden, I'm still popping out and deadheading flowers, forecasters keep warning of freezing conditions but in actual fact its very mild really so they 're still producing blooms, I might be regretting saying that before very long , lol.

Hello Klahanie and thankyou, its good to be back, I missed all of you as well, hoping all the glitches have been fixed now and we can carry on next year enjoying ourselves posting and showing photos...Merry Christmas to you ..xx

Very lucky this time Sue. We've had large trees fall before and they have always caused some type of damage. We are thanking our lucky stars this time.

I most certainly am enjoying being home again after a year and a half away. I found it hard at times being so far away from my garden!

Wishing you and yours a very happy Christmas!

Sue, it did take me most of the day but it was such an enjoyable experience I didn't mind at all. I had the air-con on and Christmas music playing in the background!

I will only ever get rid of decorations when they completely disintegrate or break. They spent so much time in storage that they are all in pretty good shape for now.

I am super excited to be at home this year. Of course, I will miss being with my son and grandchildren down south but all of those grandchildren are now a lot older and don't get as excited being with their grandparents all the time!

Merry Christmas Linclass, love your decorations. I hope we have a good 2025 for all our gardening projects.

Balcony thankyou, I have already noticed a difference today, I'm looking forward to being able to be active on here again and follow everyones blogs and seeing all the photo's, I know I have FB but its not the same as being on here, I did try other sites but just couldn't get on with them......
Hope you, your wife and the family have a lovely Christmas...xx

It used to have very tall tree ferns like Cyathea medularis,C. brownii that reached the ceiling. I wonder if they transplanted them?

I tried mammy Delonix. It survived the winter but didnt grow much in its second summer..then died.

I'm shocked that a moth orchid on the porch is in full bloom here in the third week of December on a sunny 66f day.

Sue, my comment seems to have not been sent, so PM on the way to you!

Merry Christmas Lincslass. Your house looks very festive.
Glad to see you back, you were missed.

That's useful to know ... thanks Julia.

Thank you both...Shirley, they are an accommodating size too.

Glad to see you are back to creating blogs, Sue! I'm also glad we could help you with adblocker! It's not just GoY where you will notice the difference but everywhere you go on the internet!

Now looking forward to seeing your garden again - in the spring!

Happy Christmas to you & family.

This is a lovely blog, you have some real treasures there Bernie, I bet it took you ages to put them up, I love the telling of your memories flooding back as you were getting them out, each one a precious gift from all those children you taught, things like this are special to me as well, I have many decorations that we've had for years, too many really but I won't get rid of them, I try to add some of the very old ones amongst the modern newer ones so they sort of get changed around each year, there are really special ones that come out each and every year...I hope you have a really special Christmas Bernie , sounds to me as though you are excited and looking forward to being home for a change...xx

So glad to hear that, Sue! I'm off now to read your blog! :)

I took a look at your plant & it looked very good!