Pass-Along Plants
My Mom, Alice, was a gardener. She owned a Flower Shop before us kids came along, and she had a true passion for flower arranging. Alice even taught a class on floral arranging at the local community college. She studied to become a certified flower show judge, and she did just that: judging the arrangements of her peers in the Tri-State area.So when you're a flower show judge, and a member of a couple of garden clubs, you tend to hang out with some folks with a real knack for growing things. And one thing you learn, is that they LOVE to share plants and seeds with each other. Any rarity, oddity, history or whimsy just makes a plant that much more interesting to share. They call them Pass-Along plants, and we sell quite a few of them.
Pregnant Onion (a Hyacinth, not an onion), is an old-timey favorite. It lives in a pot on the patio in Spring and Summer, then you treat it as a houseplant in the cooler months. Then, right in the middle of Winter- boom! It blooms. Not just any bloom- a splendid 6" flower spike on the end of a 4 foot stalk.
Now here's the Pass-Along part: the reason they call it "pregnant", is because the bulb reproduces by creating smaller bulblets under its paper-like skin on the sides of the bulb. These bulblets will each turn into a larger bulb in the not-so-distant future. You'll have plenty more of these bulblets, so why not give them to some of your gardening friends to try?
