My first blooms

Night Runner! And she's getting more beautiful as the day progresses... ;-)

My first hardy to bloom, from the Luna Series (or I guess that's what it's called...a series).

Beautiful!

Beautiful "Night Runner" Debbie, looks like if it was "City Slickers" brother, very similar in appearance.

Wilfred

" City Slicker "

wow, i didn't notice the similarity until you just now pointed it out! The color of the ruffle being the main difference. Thanks Wilfred.

Nice blooms Debbie. Your "Night Runner" will put out blooms that can be very different in coloration each time. Sometimes you will have as many as 6 different color rings all in one bloom (white, pink, red, purple, orange, yellow).

Jon

You did it!!! Congratulations! Beautiful blooms, both of them!

Get to add a few more blooms now, here's a nice hardy...

and a bloom from one of my rose of sharon (althea) shrubs...

a new bloom for me, Dragon's Fire, among my Gingerland caldiums...

Nice blooms Debbie. Thanks for sharing them with us.

good going Debbie! nice to see that hibiscus can play nicely with those caladiums :-)

That is pretty; like the caladium/hibbie combination.

Patty

Just got a few more blooms, I'm down with a cold of some sort & my camera taking skills are definitely lacking (excuses, excuses, lol) but here's Sun Flower from Exotic Hibiscus, one of Curt Sinclairs' CV's...

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and the last one for today (sigh) is Exotic Sensation...in the morning it had a blue ring around a white eye area, then the remainder was pink...wish I'd of got that shot, this is still beautiful as is. Our weather has been rainy, hot & humid, must be effecting some of the blooms, as they aren't as bright.

Thanks for sharing your photos. Take care of yourself and hope you feel better.

Great blooms Debbie..

How do you like " Sunflower" from curt ?

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Sorry you're not feeling well deb, but even when you aren't you are still up and about checking on those flowers huh? ;-)

thanks for the well wishes & yes, I love these blooms so much, if I'm able, I'll go get a picture! I'm pretty sure that's part of any addiction! Jon, I love Curt's SunFlower & his Exotic Sensation, they were both much brighter than the picture showed. He sent some wonderfully large plants with bunches of buds & one was in bloom when I opened the box! I also got some plugs from him, he has a super packaging system for those. I'll definitely be going back! Check out Hot Bikini, French Maiden & Eye Shadow on his site, stunning in bloom.

Hope you get well soon Debbie, and your sure are a hib addict, even though your not feeling well you still go out and take photos of your wonderful hib to show us, thanks.

Wilfred

Debbie, so sorry to learn of your cold - just not fair to be sick in the summer when the flowers are blooming and the sky is blue. Hope you have a speedy recovery! You have a number of beauties there and I very much like the rose of sharon double bloom. Great color.

Tussee