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Protea is a large genus of flowering plants known colloquially as Sugar bushes. About 92% of the species occurs only in the Cape Floristic Region, a narrow belt of mountainous coastal land from Clanwilliam to Grahamstown, South Africa. The extraordinary richness and diversity of species characteristic of the Cape flora are thought to be caused in part by the diverse landscape, where populations can become isolated from each other and in time develop into separate species.
germinating Protea can be straight forward but keeping Them alive requires a bit of a green thumb, seeds germinate best at around 12C. Proteas thrive in low nutrient soil consisting of 2 parts coarse sand and 2 parts peat and, if available, with added rotted and decomposed leaves. They do not thrive in any medium with high levels of phosphates. Smoke can stimulate germination. Roll up some scrap paper or newspaper, then light it up. Beat it out when half burned away. Shake off the burned portions and mix into into the substrate. Smoke primer discs should be used if available
Proteas require extremely well drained soil which is both acidic and very low in nutrients, fertiliser containing excess phosphates or nitrates may kill them.
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There are MANY amazing edible and medicinal plants which can be grown as a houseplant during these cooler months without the assistance of any fancy lighting set up, such as the stimulating succulent Kanna, pungent lavender, Hardy Tobacum, Sweet sugarcane, lovely love-lies-bleeding, elegant nigella, ect. These all make for excellent low maintenance houseplants! Still many other plants are actually very cold hardy and can withstand being grown outdoors in a mild winter climate, such as brassiscas.
Winter is a great time to consider starting plants which require a period of “afterripening” or cold stratification, ginseng comes to mind: Sow these seeds directly into pots/seed flats and leave them outdoors during these frigid months and simply let nature take its course, leave them in a shady spot and place a screen protector overtop of them to keep out birds and other varmints. This method of germinating Ginseng will yield results by the second winter.
Did you know the best time to plant poppies (papavar somniferum) is late fall/early winter? Poppy seeds will lay dormant during the winter, these glorious flowers will be some of your first crops to emerge early spring.
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