My neighbor, who moved here from California, gave me a small pot of Kalanchoe plants on my birthday in March last year. The flower heads were enormous and so colorful–the heads were made up of composite flowers all grouped together. There were three separate plants in the pot.
Kalanchoe are succulents, and they thrive in California. I knew nothing about them, as I had spent almost 20 years in Maine. The flowering heads stayed blooming for weeks and weeks before stopping.
Then, the plants started to…grow. So I repotted them sometime last summer.
Now look!
They are covered with blooms that are about to color up. They are little, not the big heads, but… How exciting!
This plant doesn’t like temps below 45 degrees, so I’m keeping a close eye on how cold it is getting at night. I will bring this big pot inside if temps drop into the high 40s.
When my neighbor comes over–often using the porch entrance–she stops to pet this plant and to exclaim over its size. It reminds her of California, of course.
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