Last month I bought our family’s first ever Christmas flower at the local DIY shop. The kids and I planted the enormous bulb into the tiny plastic pot that came with it and added some of our own extra soil. Then we put the tiny pot inside a bigger ceramic one for support, put it by our back French doors, watered it and waited.
We didn’t have long to wait before it began it’s rapid journey to bloomdom. We had a tall stalk with a bud in no time at all and then the bud unfolded and exploded into an enormous four piece firework of reds, yellows, greens, and pearly white. Gorgeous!
Of course life hurriedly swirled around our new beautiful flower and while I had intended to photograph it properly, all I managed was a few snaps one morning with the Canon point and shoot camera. Luckily for me though, this fancy flower has shot up a second budded stalk that is in the process now of unfolding. If it explodes into a gorgeous bloom before we leave next week, I’ll make myself find the time to shoot it properly. But for now, the snaps…
I am sad to admit that I didn’t do it! I’ll just have to grow another one next year for proper photos.