quick ways to make winter plants into summer flowers

Most supermarkets have primrose plants for sale. They come in a wide variety of colors from purple to pale yellow or white. Buy a few - they cost from about $3 for two to about $2.50 a plant. Keep them watered and in a cool room. Indirect light on a diningroom table or by a northern or easterly facing window are best. If you keep watering them, just before they dry out, they will flower for up to six weeks. Even after they have stopped flowering, continue to water them. Then plant them out in the spring after frost, but before it gets hot. They may not bloom again that first spring, but they will continue to bloom the following spring and will, if happy, spread and bloom every year after that.