Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Varigated brugs?, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
SOOOO--
The amount of bloom it came up with last year might have been a carry-over from all that fertilizing....

It had FOUR huge flushes--starting in June. Each one bigger as the plant grew--but the amount of blooms for each flush was jus as amazing as the final one that I posted above....just proportionately bigger as the plant grew bigger as well.

What I think is most amazing about the "Maya" blooms is the 3 distinct phases of color the blooms go through.
They open yellow---proceed to a creamy white as the bloom opens---and then, slowly turn peach as it matures and fades....This may take 4-5 days total.

This hows pretty well all the 3 color stages of the "Maya" bloom.

edited to say that his sequence really represents the "peaches and cream" coloration.....

I also wanted to ad that all this phenomenal bloom in 2009 might have been, also, as a result of how root-bound this plant was. As you can see in the picture where it is dug up and awaiting p/u--the pot is dwarfed by the whole plant....Like--the "Swan Song".....

This message was edited Apr 11, 2010 8:09 PM