Yesterday I went out on a long drive and as I passed the garden shop, the car stopped. Nope not really, I yelped and made hubs stop the car.
When I went in I was informed that we have some new type of flowers by the shop assistant. That was my cue for a pleasant surprise. There were these star shaped flowers on 6 inch plants. They guy had no clue what it was called. They were cute so I had to buy them.
When I reached home I searched the internet and found that they were called balloon flowers, Japanese Bell flowers or Chinese Bell flowers. I bought them in pinks whites and blues. You might see the pinks in the background.
The buds are like balloons before they burst open. that is where they get their name from. These look like artificial plants though.
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Question of
Have you seen these flowers before?
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Yes
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No
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Do you like them?
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Yes
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No
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Beautiful flowers. I haven’t seen them yet
Thanks Vidocka, neither had I seen them before I bought them.
I am enjoying them and took a couple of cutting from the mother plant and potted them to see if they can be propagated.
Monday is a Muslim holiday so we have a long weekend. I hope the sun shines.
We have ha very little sunshine the last couple of days, but at least it wasn’t a splashy, mucky weekend.
My neighbor has these I believe.
Does your neighbor have other colors? I went hunting for deeper pinks but didn’t find any.
Those are very cool. 🙂
They do look so pretty, I hope they take well to our kind of weather.