I was able to spend about ten hours last weekend on the greenhouse and potting bench.  I can’t remember the last time I was able to carve out that much time for the plants.  Every plant got some much-needed attention.  Here are some “after” photos.

Here are two of the new Streptocarpus plants that I started from leaf cuttings last year.

 

The stem broke on this one, so I had to lift them up to get a photo…great color and patterns, though.

Another view.

One of the smaller seedling Impatiens that I grew from seed getting its first flower now!

Pristine white Streptocarpus named “Angelina Jolie.”

Another Cape Primrose from the leaf cuttings I got from an eBay seller last year.

This pot of Pleione orchids has gotten really crowded.  There will be dozens of bulblets in a month or so, and I’ll peel them off and pot them together in a separate pot or two.  I think it will take about three years for me to get blooming size plants from the bulblets.

The big story with this part of the shelf is that I threw away the original Sinningia leuchotircha caudex.  I had that plant for ten or so years and it had gotten huge, but a few years ago, all the buds died out at the top, and it never recovered.

This shelf contains an assortment of bulbs–Hippeastrums, inlcuding seedlings of H. mondonii, Habranthus robustus, Watsonia, Ferraria, and a few unknowns from a mixed seed packet.

Another view of one of the bulb shelves.  The Veltheimia bracteata bulbs are here, too.  They didn’t bloom last year for the first time in a long time, so I added some more fertile soil under and over the root balls without disturbing the roots.

This shelf has cactus, Gasterias, and an Aloiniopsis rurbrolineata that I grew from seed five or six years ago.

This is the Streptocarpus shelf–probably ten different plants, most of them are ten or so years old, but still productive.

Some plants not shown clearly in these photos that I potted on or divided include the hybrid red and white Hippeastrum that I’ve had for a long time.  Not only does it bloom every year,  but it sets seeds, and the seedlings have sprung up in pots all over the greenhouse.  I must have more than a dozen bulbs of this hybrid now!  There were offsets as well as the seedlings.

Also prolifically seeding around is the Hippeastrelia hybrid.  I potted all of the seedlings in separate pots and in good soil.  There are about a dozen pots of these now, too, and I divided the original pot of bulbs, which was very congested!

Other seedlings I potted on are Agapanthus praecox–I got five seedlings from the plant I grew from seed about seven years ago.

This view shows the Strelitzia reginae, Sinningia tubiflora, and the three divisions of Impatiens flanaganae, a tall tuberous type.   I also divided the old butterfly amaryllis I’ve had for 20 years.  I has only flowered once or twice in all that time!  The bulbs were pretty small, but seemed healthy enough.

This corner of a shelf has some vines tangled up, including an old succulent one that I’ve never identified, Thunbergia alata, and Eccremocarpus scaber.

This lower shelf has two Billbergia nutans, with Clivia miniata hybrids that I grew from seed in front.

More Clivia seedlings.  These are all mostly blooming size now, and I expect they should bloom next year.

Another Clivia seedling.

This shelf is pretty empty, with just a Bowiea volubilis and a pot with stock geranium plants.

Another bottom shelf with Clivia seedlings.   Hoping for a great show come March/April.

Here is the massive Coelogyne cristata that I’ve had for ten or so years.  I did not repot this plant.  I’m not really sure how I will when the time comes, but it bloomed well this year, so I’m hoping it will again next year and I can deal with repotting it afterwards.