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Flower/Plant for kitchen Windows Sill

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  • 07-03-2019 10:47am
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    briancarr82
    Registered Users Posts: 313 ✭✭


    Hi looking for recommendations for an indoor plant/flower (preferably with colour) for a small kitchen window sill. Something that lasts preferably!! Cheers


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    Day Lewin
    Registered Users Posts: 4,647 ✭✭✭Day Lewin


    Pelargonium: bright big flowers, tough, love bright light and heat, nearly impossible to kill.

    Traditional and hard to beat.

    They are the ones commonly known as "Geraniums" but the name is technically inaccurate.

    http://tinyurl.com/y5q3wrrp


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    worker bee
    Registered Users Posts: 97 ✭✭worker bee


    Ornamental peppers can look nice and last well in a dry, bright spot.
    They often have them in Aldi/Lidl for a few euro.

    https://www.google.com/search?q=ornamental+peppers&rlz=1C1GCEU_enIE820IE820&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwinxenj_-_gAhWEURUIHU2QAG8Q_AUIDigB&cshid=1551960731062728&biw=1680&bih=907


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    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,435 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    It does depend to some extent on which way your window faces. Is it south facing and gets a lot of sun, north facing or in a passageway that gets no sun, or a bit of both? I would not be too insistent on it lasting indefinitely, most things with colour tend not to have either a long life or not long colour. Also they get can dusty and sad looking in a kitchen, its a difficult enough environment for a plant.

    Having said all that you could try Kalanchoe, they will last a good while, the flowers do eventually go off - either wait for it to flower again or get a new one, they are not expensive and are readily available in supermarkets. An orchid - phalaenopsis - the usual ones you see in supermarkets - are much easier than people think, the flower spray will last for for months in the right situation - and will flower again if you are patient, at least once in the year, sometimes twice. They are the plants with the longest lasting flowers I can think of at the moment, if I think of any more I will get back to you!


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