Winter Garden Week #4

As you can see, the control plant has continued to thrive. The blue plant has lost what green it had. The magenta plant continues to do nothing at all. But when I touch the bulbs on the other two, they aren’t mushy which means they’re probably not dead yet. I’m going to give the colored bulbs one more week to try to grow, then I’ll pull them out and repot them in non-colored soil to see if they are truly dead or if they can be salvaged. So food coloring does not make plants happy.

You can see a few of the first flowers. Several more clusters are beginning to send up flower stalks. The daffodils continue to sit not doing much. The flowering plants are grape hyacinths. Outdoors they are a very dark purply-blue. These ones are a beautiful pale lavender. I suspect that the lack of direct sunlight is what is affecting the color of the bulbs.

In the far left of the picture you can see some of the poinsetta plant that I mentioned yesterday.