Tropicals & Tender Perennials: It's an "Easter Cactus"......well not really, but, 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Wow, beautiful pictures, Ursula. Both Gitti Paetz and Edna Stoddard are beautiful, but I definitely see what you mean that Gitty looks more red with a pink center than lilac. Cultivar names can be so confusing, and I haven't even learned about all the shapes yet. Last night, as I was reading the descriptions of the forms, I saw "cup and saucer" and "basket" and "bowl." I clearly need to study the forms and have a lot to learn yet. I wish I could be more helpful to you, but being a relative newbie, I don't have the answers, but I think that mistakes in naming are probably made quite frequently. I know how upsetting it is to pay a lot of money for one cultivar only to find out years later when it blooms that it is something else. It is disappointing to say the least.

In the winter and cooler months, my brugmansias and plumerias are a light shade than they normally would be in the heat of summer. The greenhouse heat will bring out intense color and make reds much darker. That is the extent of the color change that I have observed in those flowers.

Here is Tel Star today: