Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My last pics before overwintering .......I think, 1 by bettydee

bettydee wrote:
Hi Frank and Joyce, It's good to see you posting again.

Frank, I'm jealous of you being able to grow B. sanguinea. I fell in love with it before all other Brugs and I can't grow it here either. Too hot also. Yours looks gorgeous!

I've seen not only a color difference in my MM between seasons making it look, as indiana_lily says, like two difference plants, but also a change in the size of the calx exposing the corolla neck more. This shorter calx appeared in a flush in the dead of winter though and not in the fall. Maybe Joyce can clarify this. I had attributed the shorter calx to the drastic temperature fluxuations we get here in central Texas or to a physical injury. The thing is that the shorter calx didn't appear on other blooms later in the flush. Joyce have you seen this shorter calx on your MM at this time of year? Or is there a possibility that is not MM?

Here's a photo of my MM taken in the greenhouse early in February. The bud in the photo as well as other buds that opened later in the flush produced normal blooms.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/29409/