I shared my violets last week, but those aren’t my only indoor bloomers.

I have a fairly large Goldfish plant hanging in the bedroom window. It hasn’t bloomed since we moved, but I noticed the other day it has one small goldfish on it now! I see signs of a couple others, so I expect it will soon be covered. It’s been a pretty prolific bloomer in the past.

Last summer, I had all my Christmas cactuses on the porch, unfortunately in places where they didn’t get much light. Then over winter, a few of them got neglected due to over-crowding and as a result, not only did I not get any flowers last year, I’ve also had to nurse several of them back to health.

So I really wasn’t expected much by way of flowers this year. But then I noticed one of the little pieces I’d managed to save on the front window…

It’s got one pretty little bud. Since I did some repotting, I wasn’t sure what colours were where, but this one appears to be the pretty salmon one I had. I’m glad – because this one is my absolute favourite. I’ve never seen another one like it.

The other Christmas cactuses are all showing new growth, which is good, but I suspect this will be the only one to bloom this year.

When I was at Mom’s, I stopped at the big nursery by her place to get some little plants for the fun pots Sam brought me (more on those in a minute).

While there I got seduced by the orchids. I only planned to buy one… they had a beautiful striped one (I’ve never seen striped orchids before), but they didn’t have it in the smaller pots in my price range. So I opted for this one.

The markings reminded me of a pansy.

But then…. as I was on my way to the check out, I spied a clearance rack… and on it….

One of those striped orchids! And in a bigger size than the pricier ones I saw earlier! I have no idea why it was on the clearance table, but since it was such a good deal, I snapped it up! I don’t feel bad about buying TWO orchids either, because all of my other orchids are still alive. In fact, I just gave some fresh bark/soil stuff to a couple, and they seem even happier now.

And one of them…

Notice anything odd about that bloom stem. Back in March, I accidentally broke it off when trying to get a picture of the flower. (i was so upset!) I left the stem to dry before I cut it like you do when all the blooms are spent! But then a few months ago, I noticed, it was growing another stem off of it!!! I had no idea they would do that! It’s taken months to grow… but it’s pretty darn amazing!