Wednesday 22 December 2010

A pot plant for the festive season

We have an ancient cymbidium, bought as a small plant from Swain's in the High Street maybe 10 years ago, or was it 15?  Anyway, it has been repotted a few times and has now grown into a large plant with many growing points.  It is so easy to please.  It spends the summer months under a tree in the garden and survives mostly on rain.  It comes inside in September and already has  flower spikes.  It gets a feed when I can remember of anything that's going.  But it is now a biennial flowerer, a sure sign that it needs more room so I plan to divide it in maybe 4 and repot in the Spring.