Winter here with a little snow each day. My garden beds are under several inches of snow but I have welcome flowers in bloom in the house.....African Violets.

Beautiful!! I love African Violets!
With 8cats in the house though I can't have them...they're cat hair magnets!

Excellent and so pretty. Glad I clicked on this! The first one is especially amazing, never seen one that pretty color. What kind of light exposure do these plants have?

Opp.....I grow some of them in an east facing picture window and also have some under gro-lites. Both do well. Lee Anne....I had a bird and the AV's were magnets for feathers and dandruff so the bird went.

LOL - we have our priorities, huh?

Aha, those east windows are magical, aren't they?! Thanks!

Callisia fragrans has some flower stalks but they don't open every day... not much to look at, but smells GOOD!



A gangly, unruly plant...

Paul: Your African Violets are gorgeous! What a colorful display and I imagine a very welcome one during the winter months!

Purple: My Callisia fragrans plants are all outside but they're all putting up bloom stalks now too ... the fragrance is really nice!

Purple: I submitted a proposal for both of your great photo's to be added to the database!

I learn something here every day!! I watch my neighbors house because they don't live here and we stuck what I now know is Callisia fragrans in the back because it grows like wild and doesn't need watering or much care. It took over the small bed (luckily it is surrounded by concrete and a pool) in a few months. It actually looks really good but I've never noticed it blooming. I get it cut back and pulled out a couple times a year when it starts to look ratty and it comes back quickly. Anyway, I didn't know what it was but I recognized it on this thread so I went over and took some pics.



hmmm, ignore that weed over on the left. I'll get that tomorrow.


I'm happy to know what it is, thank you.

Jonna: Wow, that's a gorgeous bed of Callisia fragrans! I have lots of it in containers and I'm thinking of using it as a ground cover behind my deck. I like the reddish color the foliage takes on when it's exposed to more sun. There's a variegated variety also. I received one pup of the variegated form in a trade about 5 years ago; it doesn't seem to grow and spread as quickly as the solid green version and it's never bloomed but I still like it: