Hello everyone welcome back to the epic gardening podcast we're doing some house plant appreciation this week with Lisa Steinkov of the

house plant guru and the author of multiple books. Her most recent is house plant party, fun projects and growing tips for epic indoor plants. So today we're going to be talking about flowering house plants that bloom indoors which I definitely think is sort of an

anomaly because you think of a house plant you don't really think of it

flowering too much maybe I guess peacefully the rare snake plant African violet but are there some

that you think are a little bit underrated and how do you actually make a

house plant flower indoors because usually you would think they maybe they need

more light right Lisa?

That is correct and that's very good because so many people that have a, let's say an African

violet and they can't get it to bloom.

And I'm like the only thing that can make a plant bloom is light. So they tell me, oh, I've fertilized it, I've, you know, I give it water, I'm talking to it if it isn't blooming and within a year

because plants are cyclical because you know they're not going to be in bloom

all the time just like plants outside they're only going to bloom for a certain

amount of time. Plants only bloom, you know, at certain times quite often. There are some that

bloom all year. So if it hasn't bloom within a a year, then there's a problem where there's something

needs to be changed and usually it's light because light is food for your plant and it's

the only thing that's going to make it flower.

Yep, I would agree.

Yeah, I mean, there's certain things you can't really fake.

I mean, it needs to, it needs that sort of biological signal to be told that it's time to do something different.

Right.

So, and you know, there's some plants that bloom, you know, like we have the short day plants, like Poinsettias,

holiday cactus, like the Thanksgiving cactus, the Christmas

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