The life of our Purple Irish Shamrock by bruni

The life of our Purple Irish Shamrock

I usually place three of these plants on a white marble stone bed at the side of our house. the pot on the left is from last year. I always keep one to overwinter inside. I place it on the window sill of one of our two bay windows. with the other two (these pots are a lot larger and don't fit on the window sill) I stop watering them and eventually all the flowers die off. now I remove the root system and collect the individual roots and put them in peat moss to overwinter in a cool place in a spare room. just about now is the time to replant the roots into two pots again and start watering. the first time they get really soaked and from then on just sparingly. soon you'll see the stems poking out of the earth and eventually the leaves will form and dainty white flowers will appear as well. we've done this for years and it's unbelievable how gorgeous full the two pots will become in a month or two. when it's warm enough outside and more chance of frost, we take all three pots outside once more for the coming summer season.
Lovely, very colourful and unusual
March 27th, 2017  
What a beautiful looking shamrock plant. Lovely collage, Bruni.
March 27th, 2017  
Stunning
March 27th, 2017  
Great shots to show how to do it.
March 27th, 2017  
What a beautiful shamrock! Interesting how you nurture them through the winter.
March 28th, 2017  
I do the same with geraniums. the purple shamrocks are very unique
March 28th, 2017  
That is a beautiful plant.
March 28th, 2017  
How beautiful!
March 28th, 2017  
what a lot of care and work. and an amazing result I have never seen purple Shamrocks in fact I have never seen a real Shamrock
April 2nd, 2017  
What a beautiful plant. I have never seen anything like this. A wonderful collage Bruni.
April 3rd, 2017  
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