They take between three and five months to germinate – which seems like an inordinate amount of time to me. However, they need to be kept in a plastic bag in the fridge until they germinate. So I am capitalising on the cold weather and putting them outside without the bag for the time being until I can sneak them into the fridge.

Once the seedlings appear they have to be transplanted out which i am looking forward to as they grow to such beautiful plants.