My husband has a special way with houseplants. One of the many plants that thrive in our home under his care is the jade. Almost 25 years after receiving a jade plant from a friend, we now have numerous "baby" jade plants around the house. The biggest one recently decided it was time to bloom:
This plant is about six years old and has never bloomed before. We've been excited to watch these buds develop and open:
Every summer, Jim puts all his potted jades outside on the deck where they get a lot of sun. The jades love this and their leaf edges turn crimson from all the wonderful sunlight:
When the temperatures start to dip in fall, it's time for them all to come inside again:
Pretty, huh?:
*Very* pretty.
ReplyDeleteMy husband loves houseplants also. I've only recently relented because we're at the stage where it won't get pulled out and dumped on the floor ...
Flowers from a real plant in December! And it isn't a Poinsetta! Although I have to say, Roxy outshines the Jade plant just by a hair!!
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a jade plant bloom...do the blossom's smell? They are lovely, like little stars! My hubby has a way with houseplants too...me not so much!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! Next year I will be brave and put mine in the sun too. Love the tease of the full blooms on the Christmas Cactus in the upper right corner of the photo!
ReplyDeleteWow! I have NEVER seen a jade plant in bloom and I've seen plenty of jade plants! Almost makes me want to have one.....course you probably have to wait 25 years to see them bloom.....lets see...I'm 51 now.....
ReplyDeleteWow! Those are beautiful. I'm not very good with house plants.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a jade plant bloom, beautiful! I wish I had the knack for potted plants. I do better when they're in the ground.
ReplyDeleteMy Mom had jade plants that bloomed, but mine never have. Yours are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteJust beautiful! It looks so healthy. Do you use any compost in the soil?
ReplyDeleteI had one a long time ago and forgot to bring it in from our porch. A cold night got it. Turned it black. Wrong color for these beautiful plants.
Yours is just lovely.
Just beautiful! We used to have a couple large ones planted outside in our So. California home. Seeing your pictures makes me wish we had brought some plantings with us in this new life of ours. But then again, they probably wouldn't do well outside here because of the colder winters. Hmmmm . . . Farmer Jen must keep hers inside?
ReplyDeleteCA Grammy: Yup. I only have one left. It's in a pot, sitting on a north facing windowsill in my dining room. It grew from a cutting I got from a friend in southern Cal.
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful! Great joy Jim! And Roxy you're lovely as ever!
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely. We had an aloe once that up and bloomed on us. Surprised the heck out of us 'cause we didn't know they would bloom!
ReplyDeleteI'm not familiar with this type of house plant, but I like it. I might have to look for one sometime.
ReplyDeletevery lovely! I didn't even know that Jade plants bloom!!
ReplyDeleteI had no idea these things bloomed!!! Wow. Somebody is totally Mr. GreenJeans. (bonus points for reference)
ReplyDeleteMy Grammy brought several MONSTER Jades to Oregon when she moved here from California. I always loved it when they would bloom - it's so beautiful. What lovely photos! Reminds me of Grammy and definitely made me smile! :)
ReplyDeleteWow, I don't think I've ever seen jade in bloom. Thty look so pretty! Your husband obviously has the proverbial green thumb!
ReplyDeleteNice! I have never had one bloom, what a treat!
ReplyDeleteEnjoying your blog, glad you got to move to the country!!!!! It is wonderful. I live on a farm. It is wonderful that you are living your dream.
ReplyDeleteBlessings, Linda
Prairie Flower
Beautiful! I didn't even know that Jade blooms :-)
ReplyDeleteHeyyyy...I know that plant. HI Jade plant that had buds when I was there last and was so kind to share some of its offspring with me.
ReplyDeleteThe open flowers are just beautiful. I hope one day that I, too, will be lucky enough to have blooms on my plants. Even if they are little bitty right now....they are sending out some roots! :-)