July Pictures and Chit Chat

Kohleria 'Green Goblin':

Kohleria 'Peridots Potlach':

Love your flowers Olaf!!! My sinn. 's are all resting. I sure hope they come to life soon. I really think they are precious.Lou

Thanks Lou!

That's kind of unusual that they should be resting now...

And I agree: Those little gems are precious! :)

Sinningia 'Chippewa Twilight':

Sinningia 'Seminole'. Putting on quite a show... :)

Streptocarpus 'Bristol's Party Boy':

Kohleria 'Green Goblin'. Blooming and blooming...

Kohleria 'Mother's Lipstick':

And from the side:

Kohleria 'Peridots Kitlope' x 'Pink Shadows':

Side view:

Alsobia sp. "Chiapas":

Sinningia 'Ozark Scentimental Journey':

Sinningia 'Freckles'. Putting on a show today.

Sinningia 'Freckles'. One more time with a darker background.

Sinningia muscicola aka. "Rio Das Pedras". Enjoying the heat wave. Grown unenclosed.

Sinningia pusilla. Also unenclosed. Grown from seed.

Great Olaf! Mother's Lipstick is outstanding.

Thanks Lynn! It's an older variety. Pretty tall but with a very sturdy stem. Doesn't flop over easily. :)

Kohleria 'Strawberry Fields'. I can't get enough of this one! Great work by Patrick Worley.

Hi folks,

I thought I would get a picture up of one of my favorite violets which is flowering this month. It is 'Champagne Taste' and has flowers fully 2 inches across.

Earle G

Love the pictures Olaf and Earle! I need to dig my camera out too.

Lynn

I have some terrarium plants ready to bloom. Achimenes Rio Rita, and some sinningias.

Lovin' everyone's lovely gessie blooms for July. Working on plants today and decided to take a few photos of what's blooming now.
First in streptocarpus 'Spin Art'. I never tire of these vibrant fantasy blossoms.
My house lost AC for a few days and the temps got into the 90's inside...whew! I was sure the streps were gonners but cooler air and they revived and look now like nothing ever happened to them. So resilient fortunately.

Heidi

Strep 'Party Pinafore' is a David Thompson beauty. I would love to know if it has 'Sylvia' in it's parentage.

I continue to grow strep 'Something Special'...so sweet.

Strep 'Hototogisu' has a unique flower shape.

Ramblin' Amethyst (trailer) gets much nicer in the variegation as it matures.

Heidi,
Your plants and your photos are just gorgeous!

Lynn

Thank you, Lynn. I can't tell you how much I enjoy growing them. LOL...the rest of my life gets in the way sometimes.

Heidi

So does mine....sigh.
What an absolutely darling picture!!

Lynn

Wonderful pictures, Heidi!

And the whole "life sometimes gets in the way"-kind-of-thing sounds awfully familiar... :)

Olaf

clap,clap,clap!!! What a awesome month of photo's.Thanks so much for sharing your pictures with us.

Earle,your av is beautiful.

Olaf,beautiful as always.Love the speciosa's.My favorites.

Hi Heidi! Beautiful pictures! Love the rodent the best.LOL

Celene and Lynn,these still a few days left,please post your blooming beauties.

Jan

Heidi, what beautiful plants. I love them all. I wish I knew the trick to growing Streps. I've killed all that I received in trades from an old member, GessieGail, a few years back. She sent me a dozen leaves, with instructions. I think now that I may have overwatered them. They started off as nice little plantlets, then took a nose dive. Your other gessies are also georgeous.. You have a green, green, thumb. Great growing!!!

Kohleria 'Strawberry Fields'. One more time...

Nautilocalyx sp. 'Burle Marx'. This time for the foliage...

Most of these are first time bloomers.
Maverick's Faded Jeans

LE-Prekrasnia

Sora Addison Rose