Flower Shows

Winter 2026

There’s a heavy layer of snow and frost over all of our gardens but that doesn’t mean we aren’t enjoying some greenery in our lives. Houseplants are a simple way of keeping your green thumb active throughout the year. We’d love to have a look at the greenery in your homes, please share photos of your houseplants for our virtual winter flower show. It’s easy!

Take a picture of your favourite houseplant and share it with our club. Send your photo to ptbohortsoc@gmail.com, the pictures will be posted on our website and on social media, and we will vote in person on our favourites at our April 22 meeting.

There are very few rules: the plant must ‘live’ in your house, it’s not a seedling that’s just germinated or a cutting you are hoping will root. We also need the name of the plant.

All entries are to be submitted by March 31, 2026.

Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, so we have included two categories to meet all possibilities:

The House Special – it’s alive, it thrives, and you love it.
The Nonconformist – it’s alive – barely, not thriving, but still holds a place in your heart.

Entries for “The House Special”

Frizzle Sizzle

House plant that I bought on one of our Horticultural Bus trips 3 years ago. It has bloomed at least four times in that period of time. If you look closely there’s a second bloom coming. When the flowers open they have a vanilla scent.
Very unusual plant. Bye the way it is a bulb that has divided since I got it (that is the second bloom).Also it spends every summer outside.

Amarillis

What I’m proud of is that the red one is from last year and the pink and white one is resurrected from two years ago. I really didn’t know what I was doing but planted both these bulbs in my garden for the growing season, let the leaves do their work, then cut back the foliage in the fall and let the bulbs rest in a cool corner of my crawlspace for a couple of months. I pulled out both bulbs and repotted them in late November and really didn’t have high hopes that they would bloom again – well was I wrong!