We've been in our house for a year now. And, for almost a year I've been trying to coax my African violets to bloom. I was pretty sure that the new house had the kind of exposure that violets would like so I rescued a few scragglers from the death bin at Lowe's for a quarter each.
Slowly, they regained strength. I knew they would live after a month or so but I wasn't so certain they would ever bloom again. I thought that they might have been too far gone to recover that much.
I shouldn't have doubted. All they really needed was a nice long period of quiet and to be taken care of while they rested. Yesterday I was rewarded with this.
Notice the color of the underside of the leaves on the first photo. Don't they look like little umbrellas that might shelter a fairy during a rainstorm?
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