Most of my friends here on 365 know the story and know how much we love our purple Irish shamrock.
I explain everything again for my newer friends who might be interested in reading the following:
'How do we keep these gorgeous flowering plants year after year.
It started out with just one small Irish Shamrock I bought. over the years from this small one they multiplied into what we have today, three super large size plants. How do we do it? when it's getting below freezing (and we had a few days of night frost). Hans takes them upstairs into a spare room where they'll slowly start wilting and the soil will dry out. That's when he takes one plant at a time, removes the soil and harvest the tubers. In preparation for the tubers to overwinter, he puts them into brown paper bags covered with peat moss. A lot of work, but we love these plants. We can't remember when we first started it.'
@jernst1779 Thank you, Jean, I'll tell Hans. they look a lot better when spread out underneath our kitchen overhang with lots of white tiny flowers in the summer.
