Great looking plants! Let us see Sinningia muscicola when she blooms. Lou
May pictures and chit chat
Thanks Lou! I sure will.
Sinningia 'Yma':
Closeup:
Turns out that everything mith a micro mini parent doesn't have to be a miniature. My plant is about a foot tall now. It produces one or two flowers per axil. Jim Steuerlein created this cool hybrid. It's Sinningia muscicola ("Rio Das Pedras") x bullata ("Florianopolis"). The leaves look like oversized muscicola leaves. Young leaves have a bit of the bright green of the bullata parent and are also slightly pebbled. A very easy grower and constant bloomer. Doesn't need as much light as other Sinningias.
Whole plant:
Sinningia 'Country Crocus':
Ok, 'cause it's so perty . . .
Olaf,your Sinns. and other Gessies are always so pretty.
Nichole,I just don't know how you get the species AVs to grow so beautifully.
Lynn
Thanks Lynn! :)
Wow! That species AV is just off the chain, Nichole!
Olaf
That species av is just a wild bouquet!
S.
Sinningia 'Country Tiger' x self. Finally!
Kohleria 'Peridots Potlach':
Kohleria 'Green Goblin':
Sinningia 'Flair':
Sinningia 'Country Tiger' x self:
Sinningia 'Country Tiger' x self. One more time.
Sinningia 'Flair'. Not fully open but already pretty.
Sinningia 'Seminole':
Sinningia eumorpha 'Saltao':
Sinningia 'Snowbird':
Sinningia 'Mighty Mouse':
Olaf It looks lke you have "Selby Gardens #2" beautiful
Wow! Now, that's quite a compliment there. Thanks so much Helene!
BTW: All the Episcia cuttings are doing great and I actually am talking to the creator of 'Genevieve'. She was taken aback that someone is still growing it. :)
Olaf,
With all those buds you will soon have a bouquet!
The Genevieve you have is from seed and our. Own lillipad grew it and named it after her mother which she could do as it flowered true
That makes it even more special.
If any one wants stolons I can send after I get back to fl I am in nj right now..
That is if it's still alive. I was counting on rain there and not happening
This is such a wonderful story and shows once again what a tight-knit community we plant people are! :)
Helene: If your plant shouldn't have made it, I'd be glad to send you some stolons back!
Helene, I'd like a stolon of Genevieve, please. It should be grown more widely.
Exactly! It's a very nice looking plant so far. The cool thing about it is just like it is for one of its parents 'Suomi': Looking like a million of other Episcias until it blooms... I love it! :) Thanks so much, Helene!
beautiful plant when groomed properly. not fussy and then tish shared it with us. I too love it good grower. my old lady had lots of stolons. lets see when i get back
Fortunately, Episcias are on the easier-to-groom side and literally everything that you cut off can be shared. Especially when it is such a beautiful plant that deserves to be circulated more widely. I feel reminded of Ingrid Lindskog's stories of how she got her first Kohlerias way back when, over there in Sweden. Well, and of course, I feel reminded of what my grandmother always told me: growing plants is all about sharing!
Olaf
Sinningia 'Seminole'. First flower.
Sinningia 'Seminole'. I love the spotted throat.
It's a beautiful color!
Lynn
And it's a FAST grower. I got the tuber two months ago...
Wow,that is fast.
The only thing that went wrong this time is that the plant is too big for under lights. It wants to grow in the open in a window. Next growth cycle... :)
Sinningia eumorpha 'Saltao'. Well, another day or two...
Ooh, those yellow blossoms will look great against that dark foliage!
How many of you have reached that point - at one time or another - that you decide your collection needs an overhaul, and just have to fight the urge to have a pitching party?