Saturday 17 March 2012

A nice surprise at mums house.....

At the end of autumn last year I had run out of overwintering space for my tender plants.  The green house was full and no more plants were allowed in the house.  Anyone else have this problem?  To make sure all my tender plants survived winter I enlisted the help of some relatives to store some plants in their houses.  My mum was to take care of my Aeoniums.  I have checked on them 3 or 4 times since October and today I got a nice surprise.....one had flowered!  My mother has done a great job or not over watering the plants and put up with the constant stream of dead leaves falling on to the carpet.

This is the first flower on an Aeonium for me and although not the most amazing blooms, they are nevertheless a cheery site on an otherwise benign day.

Aeonium flowering in March 2012