Bulbs and Houseplants Lifting the Winter Blues

Indoor blooms make it easier to get through the long Canadian winter

Today ’s exposure issue forth from the indoor garden of Laura Snyder , a professional photographer who finds majuscule pleasure in shooting at home on her four - Accho property just out of doors of Ottawa , Ontario .

Like everyone else , I rely on bulb and other indoor plants to keep my liquor up over the farsighted wintertime calendar month . Pictured here is a vivid red tailflower , which is a great houseplant if you have a fair high calorie-free situation for them .

African violets(Saintpauliaspecies and hybrids ) repeatedly bloom for me , and I always have a rotation of a few in bloom on the windowsill . I imagine the key to getting blooms is to let them dry out between waterings . I ’ve sign of the zodiac - sat for people who keep them in a tray of water with a taper system , but I did n’t see a flush over the entire eight - week menses .

I ’m prosperous enough to have been gifted a beautiful clivia(Clivia miniata , Zones 10–11 or as a houseplant ) that is now coming into its second bloom in as many years . What a stunner ! Last year it bloomed just in time for Easter and was appreciate by chit-chat family .

Pink hyacinth(Hyacinthushybrid , Zones 3–9 ) in blush .

shut down - up of a imperial hyacinth .

I always blank out just how recherche the perfume of paperwhites(Narcissus tazetta , zone 8–11 or forced indoors ) and hyacinth is . These plants lift my mood whenever I come into the way . Can anyone differentiate me once and for all if I should replant these pass bulbs in the spring / fall or just compost them ?

hyacinth are beautiful even before the flower bud receptive .

The pocket-sized flowered daffodil ‘ Tête - à - Tête’(Narcissus‘Tête - à - Tête ’ zona 4–8 ) is popular for thrust indoors for early bloom .

Detail of a narcissus bloom .

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