{"id":7245,"date":"2020-05-02T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T19:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/?p=7245"},"modified":"2020-09-23T04:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T04:55:37","slug":"plant-a-day-2020-day-113-streptocarpus-hybrids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gardenescapades.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/02\/plant-a-day-2020-day-113-streptocarpus-hybrids\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant-A-Day 2020 (Day 113) Streptocarpus hybrids"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Every spring I trudge out to the greenhouse and pull out all of these Cape Primroses and clean them up and topdress or repot them. They really don\u2019t look like much. I did this activity today, and here is what I ended up with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In addition to these, I have three other blooming-sized plants that I planted on earlier, and three pots of starts that I got when I accidentally broke divisions off as I was removing spent flower stems (a hazard of cleaning the plants up, which is why smart people use clippers to cut the old stems).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within a month, flower buds will be poking up on all of these plants and in six weeks and for the rest of the summer, they will be smothered in magnificent blooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Typical of me to not have these labeled and have no idea which varieties I own. But that doesn\u2019t take away from their beauty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n