Beautiful Double Poinsettia's

The new Pink is colouring up better now:



I like the Cream:



But this huge Red flower is my favourite:



Still waiting on the red single

Just wondering if there is something wrong with these flowers or photo's I posted on Monday
They have had a few views but no replies..

Don't you girls like different coloured Poinsettia's they are looking so much more colourful than the first lot of pics I posted

sorry I must have missed this post MA, you know I always love your piccies and say something nice

Awww Thanks Cheryl I know that but I was starting to feel no one liked these beautiful flowers..

That red one is so big, easy a ruler across that a 30cm ruler and the flowers last for months they put a lift into a dull day, not that we have many up here in the winter mind you..

unlike the pathetic mini bushes they flog out down here at Xmas time

Forced and out of season that's Greed for you Cheryl..

I agree but they do dress up a nice Xmas table

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True, but that's from the Northern Hemisphere where its cold at Christmas
Well being Summer here in OZ I would rather some white flowers like roses for instant to give that table a cool look

www a white Xmas MA ,,,, a few gum leaves and a nice BBQ

Sorry Mary-Anne I didn't see it either. I've had the odd one that no one has replied to also... easy to miss sometimes

Yes A White Christmas with all the Prawns and Crays they eat up here..
White flowers look better with Seafood..

Oh well not to worry Gail just thought I would bump it up as not much on this afternoon..

MA .I do love them, the ones you sent are too small to flower this years ,I think,its the lovely double red one. That new pink is lovely and of course any white bloom help to show up other colours.
I have some things in the garden I'd like pics of but this week Faye is so busy at the Art Gallery, they are hanging all the art works , they have well over 100 entries.
Maybe next week after the opening of the Exhibition [sat night] I'll ask Faye to take some shots.

Autumn is neary over

Gwen are your little cuttings going darker like towards the red colour at all, they usually grow very quick.
Down here they do maybe its not cold enough yet for them that is, not you.

I will be looking forward to next week then when Faye is not so busy..

Yes it is..

Oh WOW!! I've just been too busy to look, and the tropical threads come last(no offence) because I know they'll be beautiful and I can't grow them. I thought the pink was lovely but that red is a knock-out!
Okay, so I'm suitably depressed that I can't grow them, happy are we?? (Joking.) Good luck to you. Are they hard or easy to grow up there?

They are all very nice ...but...yes "red one" is my pick.

MA i did notice today the stems at the top of the plant look reddish .so maybe when it cools down more they will flower.I hope so.

Thanks Marlene yes its a winner.

Betty there is nothing stopping you from growing any plant providing you are happy to share your lovely warm house with them I am so jealous of your Roses, Autumn Leaves, Maples sigh, clematis tulips lilac, prunus, malus hyacinths, magnolia, cant even grow daisies here they hate our wet season now I am getting depressed.

I used to have a tall pink weeping cherry, and a stellata rosa magnolia and very tall rhododendrons in the front garden there was a Daphne near the front door and a Laburnum vossi near the side fence, and hanging baskets of fuchsia, tree ferns in the corners , a Claret Ash, Golden Ash, Maple and a Golden Elm down the back, mauve clematis with a burgandy stripes and a yellow banksia rose on the pergola, wisteria on the brick garage wall and a Scarlet O Hara boug on the house wall and some roses out the front too, there was more but now I am getting even more depressed.

And yes its easy to grow those big red double poinsettia I just break off a branch and stick it in the ground and its grows...

Sorry Gwen I missed your reply.. Ahhh that is good news sounds like the red is coming..

I love them, Mary-Anne. I love the brilliant splash of the red.. very vivid... a no nonsense colour.

Sorry I missed this thread.. .... lately I have been head down, bum up trying to get all my gardening up to scratch before the next batch of poison.

I have a spindly P. in a pot, I may release it and hope it grows beautifully, the poor pet.

Mary-Anne, don't think my area is like Melbourne. Chalk and cheese. We are verging on semi arid up here north of the Divide. Of those things you've mentioned I can grow roses(hopefully) and lilacs, although mine are just white, have been here since we shifted here, and they just struggle on. I miss Melbourne too. Don't think I can share my house with a poinsettia, no way!

Not to worry Fay.. I can understand you wanting to get the gardening done before the next lot of ...
Fay if you prune your poinsettia about three or four times in the spring/summer it will thicken up real good.

Betty I had no idea where you live was so arid so sorry about that..
Oh well roses and lilac are gorgeous anyway do you have a wisteria they like it on the dry side yes I actually got three vines here two lilac and one white, after many years one of the lilac ones flowered last year..