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Recommend me a plant for a present

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  • 26-06-2011 5:32pm
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    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,858 CMod ✭✭✭✭


    Hey, I have to get a friend a birthday present and thought I'd get her a cheap enough plant since she has become big into gardening. I haven't a clue what to buy though. Some recommendations would be nice. It would have to grow well in a pot since it's all she can grow things in outside and some nice flowers when it blooms would be nice.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Corsendonk


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Hey, I have to get a friend a birthday present and thought I'd get her a cheap enough plant since she has become big into gardening. I haven't a clue what to buy though. Some recommendations would be nice. It would have to grow well in a pot since it's all she can grow things in outside and some nice flowers when it blooms would be nice.

    Begonia


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 12,108 CMod ✭✭✭✭Dizzyblonde


    New Guinea busy lizzy is gorgeous too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,834 ✭✭✭Sonnenblumen


    LOts of choices but for something a little different and one which looks good all year round and hot in winter: Leucothe Red Lips :D


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,534 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Hey, I have to get a friend a birthday present and thought I'd get her a cheap enough plant since she has become big into gardening. I haven't a clue what to buy though. Some recommendations would be nice. It would have to grow well in a pot since it's all she can grow things in outside and some nice flowers when it blooms would be nice.

    So this is what you get up to when you wander off on your own...

    Actually, I may have the very plant you might want, it's a bizzy lizzy variant with flowers that look like parrots!
    Was quite rare when a friend passed it to my wife and since then my better half has been passing the plant around to everyone who is interested, and now there are a good few about.
    It's a great grower and seems really easy to take cuttings from, or so I'm told.
    Here's a pic but it's far more impressive in "the flesh" so to speak.
    7kcjnd-210x158-bg.jpg

    Here's a link for more info:
    http://www.strangewonderfulthings.com/102.htm


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Ophiopogon


    ^^any chance you know the name of this variety...looks interesting


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