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Okay, so now the category of house plants. We've got the flowering guys. Yeah. These flowering guys. So let's talk a little bit about some of these quickly. Here's a nice little mini cyclamen. Yeah, cyclamens are wonderful and especially for the cooler temps. So when you get into October through about March, this plant is going to be blooming for you inside. Doesn't like a hot house though. So keep your room a little cooler and we get a lot of calls about this stuff like this. These shamrocks. Yeah, the Shamrock Oxalis. And they'll come and this color. They'll also come in and just playing ring me. And then one that's like an iron cross. It's green with sort of a red center in the leaf. And these are, these are great as far as that goes and we get some standard ones. But these are still pretty, these Gerbera daisies.
I like Gerbera daisies, the flowers last for a long time, either attached to the plant or even if you want to take the, put 'em out, put 'em off in a little bud vase. The flowers lasts a nice long time. Make a good cut flower. They really do get the Streptocarpus here. If you can grow an African violet and you can Streptocarpus, right. These are great. Have a nice and easy, very showy plants. We've got a classic one here, the Rieger begonia and great colors that they come in. They come in red and pink and white and, and a lot of like neon shocking colors. So very cool. Moderate to bright light inside, outside. They can actually grow nice and shaded Yeah, they'll grow in a shady area. You can take these out. Yup. And they would have good some. We still have interest in things like gardenias for example.
Yeah. We find, we do a lot. We do okay with these, but the standard, the trees that are grafted and everything seem to last people a lot longer, so they go lot to that. But you can't dislike citrus. He just said can't beat it for the fragrance and the fragrances. Fantastic. Yeah, that's it. That's a great, and then look at these. These are, these are really popular right now. These Bromeliads. So we've got all kinds of varieties here and colors and so forth, right in their freezer. A little different. So you might want to talk about how we water these and. There's not that, there's just not a lot of root to them. So a lot of the cups will fill out with water. And that's fine. You do want a moisten the soil, but it doesn't want to be real, real wet.
Or like orchids, you know, they're EpiFix that don't really need a lot of water like that. They're gonna give you this color for months at a time. These things last forever. Yeah. And even when they're finished, they'll send out little pups of the send that little side shoots on the bottom of either of these, cut those off. They become your plant for next year. Right. And we've got like even some smaller ones, so yeah. And then here's your little pup that you're talking about. Exactly. So that just took, came off a mama plant, and even this pup has a little pup in it. So it's coming on too. Yeah, absolutely. Well, thank you.
