Jannich, Your babies are beautiful. How proud you must be of them. I love them! Lou
MAY BLOOMS
Jan, I just LOVE your Baby Blues :)
You do SUCH an awesome job growing from seed (which has proven to be quite difficult for me). I admire your ability immensely!
I just LOVE the throat on Baby Blues :)
Be sure to save me some pollen *lol*
Always,
Kim
Thank you Lou,I'm very proud ^_^ Did you kohleria ever bloom?
Thanks Kim,I'll be getting the pollen for you today!
No, I still have a nice healthy looking plant with pretty foliage , but no blooms. LOL
Those pics are beautiful!!! Come on Sistas Jan and Lynn...I know you have more to share :)
Connie
LOL....Okay twist my arm LOL.
Aly's Cupid Kiss
Iced Amethyst Show-off we think,but not a sign of variegation in the leaves.
Prestige
Tattoo
Very Pretty Lynn! Great Growing!
Kim
Love those Streps!
Thank you.^_^ These are first bloom,so the plants are small.
Lynn
Now that's what I'm talkin' about, Lynn!!!! Thanks for making my day :)
Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!
Oh, Kim!!!! Delete that one off until I get one!!! I have wanted that for awhile. Did you get it from DT? Where did you find her?
Okay, all kidding aside, that bloom is gorgeous!
It's not blooming but take a look at the Aeschynanthus Pink Wave (which I believe to be Thai Pink) I picked up at Lowe's last weekend. I sure do hope I get to see blooms this summer :)
You got that at Lowes? We just don't get much of a choice here. Looks so nice and healthy, Kim. Please post some pics of those blooms this summer :)
I'm going to put a leaf down of Merry Christmas like Jannich instructed me to. I have put a leaf of Sinningia 1503 that Jan sent me down and it's already rooted so I KNOW I can do it with Merry Christmas too :) By fall I'm hoping to FINALLY have some nice things to offer everyone in trade. I'm trying ladies :)
I purchased my baby from Dave's Violets. I am especially fond of the larger and species sinningia rather than the minis. I love the larger growers and the micros the most. I'm having SUCH a blast with the micros.........take a look at the bubble gum machine I have Mighty Mouse planted in. So far so good..........he really seems to love it in there. Got the little bubble gum machine for $.15 or something like that after Easter *lol*
Again, not blooming yet but we were talking about fuzzy babies.
I am just LOVING this Petrocosmea Shortnin' Bread! I get up in the morning, pick it up, give it a soft little pat and talk to her *lol*. Don't laugh ladies..........I know you are *lol*
Oh, Kim...how cleaver. I would have never thought about something like that. You can find the deals and creativity!
Jan sure knows what she is doing. I love those Florist Gloxinias too. I have Jean, Samantha, Nancy and...and...(DUH) another one that I forgot LOL! If you want leaves, let me know. Samantha is setting buds and will "hopefully" be blooming before long.
Thanks for the info on Merry Christmas. Didn't know Dave's Violets had it.
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And take a look at the 4 pet babies I'm nursing along.......
There are also 5 sinningia White Sprite that I grew from seed. I am SO proud of that!
All of this is possible because of a dear dear friend that helped get me started again that I will forever be grateful for :)
The little pots they are in is an herb garden I bought at Lowe's for $5.00.
I gave my friend the herb packets and planted the little pots up.
It has a dome too so it's a great little terrarium :)
Kim, good going on the growing!!!! LOL
Do the larger sinn.s just bloom once and go dormant, or do they continue to bloom? I want one and hope there might be one in the RR box. I have given up on all the beautiful streps. They don't like my atmosphere apparently. I just love them, but can't grow them. I'm hoping I can do better with sinns. Lou
Wow,Kim how pretty!! That little bubblegum machine is adorable.I never think of things like that.Your Aeschynanthus is such a find.
Lou,Don't give up.I know you can master Streps.^_^.
This is a lovely Sinn. Jannich grew from seed.It's not in bloom right now,but still growing strong.
Lou, I'll agree with you. Streps and me are like oil and water....we don't mix! LOL!! No matter how hard I try, they die.
Melanie
I received a BEAUTIFUL order from Lyndon Lyon yesterday.
A real mix of plants. Some chirita, a codonanthe, couple of x-codonanthus, a couple nematanthus and 1 strep
Here is a closeup of the strep I received. I was tickled it was in bloom. I have already stolen the pollen and crossed with 2 Goose Egg flowers *lol*. I will pollinate it with Goose Egg pollen once it's ready :)
Oh, and don't you know I broke a leaf off unwrapping it. Darn it; hate that when that happens. Had to put the leaf down for babies *lol*
Roulette Azure
Hey Kim;
They sure do look great, really nice looking plants.Good for you, have fun with them lol
mrsbonnie
Nice healthy looking mix of plants. So...you got a package in the mail too, huh? LOL!!!!
Connie
mrs Bonnie..I fell in love with your party hat it's beautiful
thanks, it is a beauty.
mrsbonnie
by the way, my friend is the one who hybridized party hat & does sell some of hers on ebay, or here is her email add. you can probably buy direct from her, her name is Sherry Burtchett, hsburtchett@cybersol.net She has some real beauties.
Mrsbonnie
What is her ebay user name? Thanks, Lou
Now that's a bunch of nice looking plants Kim!
Thank you SO much Jan, I am really looking forward to doing some propagating with them :)
Right now I have 60 tomato plants on the 1 light shelf that I have so I have to limit my gessie propagating a bit......
HOWEVER, there IS the bathroom window *lol* which I put the petrocosmea graveyard in today (I received leaves from a Cedar Creek order today). Where there is a will.........there is a way :)
Not alot of blooms right now but lots of buds everywhere.
However, this little guy was calling to have his picture taken.
Here is Mighty Mouse from my dear friend Bonnie.
For anyone that is new, this little guy is in a ketchup cup only about an inch in diameter.
Picture of the whole plant to follow:
Here is a picture of the whole plant.
The tiniest plant ever imagined!
And here he is in his little terrarium home (they LOVE terrariums). His siblings reside in the bubble gum machine posted above.
I am SO enjoying these little micros!!!
Can ya tell?
Morning Kim,Ummm fresh tomatoes. I love them! My plants are full of flowers but no fruit yet.
L@@k at all those pets! I can see some trading going on this fall.Hey,a bathroom window 'works for me'.LOL.Those mirco mini are cuties!
Forgot the picture! One of Kims baby's is starting to flower again
That's the goal Jan, to have SOMETHING someone wants this fall *lol*
Of course the 2 pets I wanted the most are the 2 that they "substituted" with ones I didn't order :(
That's the way it goes sometimes I guess. Oh well.
I can't wait to get the tomatoes off the shelf and outside!
Tomorrow I'm going to do some propagating. Today I think it's an "outside" day.
Kim