Gardening Glory

I've had this plant for about 10 years and it has often looked like it would bloom, but this is the first year the blooms actually matured.
It's a Chirita, in the Gesneriad family of plants. There were 4 stalks and each stalk had 3 - 5 blooms on it. The stalks emerged one-by-one and the blooms lasted about a week, so there has been about a month of continuous bloom

I photographed it outside, but it's really a houseplant.

It's sitting beside a little poinsettia that I bought last November!






Below is a pineapple lily, Eucomis. I've had it for a couple years and have tried to grow it in a pot in the summer, but up til now it has only grown larger - no bloom. Every winter the bulb goes into the cold room and then in the spring it gets put outside. This year I put it right in the ground and lo and behold, it bloomed in late August.

Here's the view from above -