Lovely flowers!!! I love waking up to new pictures of beautiful blooms. As always Olaf that Sinningia is amazing love the color contrast and the spots and stripes is like it's calling my name. I also really like both of the AVs. I will be adding them to my have to get list...LOL. I need to revisit that list and see what I already got from there.
January Pictures and Chit Chat
Good Sunday morning friends.Great pictures!
Jamie, I love your mixed bowl of plants,which chirita is on the front right? Very pretty leaves.
Roly,your AV are very pretty,
sister connie,Love your Kei Yoki.I'm a sucker for ruffles
Olaf,look at your mixed box of gessie,what the plant in the middle with the green leaves/white veins? Your sinningia cross is pretty too!
For the episcia lovers,I was window shopping on ebay this morning and nocticed a awesome sale on episcia cutting/stolens with great shipping price.Check it out ^_^
Thanks, Jan!
Are you talking about the plant in the middle of the top row? That's Pearcea hypocyrtiflora. Needs a terrarium and also needs to be restarted every once in a while because the old leaves aren't particularly attractive and the plants can get quite leggy. Other than that, it's an easy and fast grower.
Olaf
Alsobia 'Cygnet'
xCodonatanthus 'Vista'
xCodonatanthus 'Vista' - leaf backsides.
Okay, here's the final result of the first flower on Sinningia 'Country Bumpkin' x 'HCY's Fairy Weather'.
And one O/T because it's blooming and it's a classic and it's pretty and it's tough as nails... LOL Billbergia nutans aka. "Queen's Tears":
And the picture...
And one more with a Tradescantia as a backdrop
My Bibergia just finished its bloom too. It is gorgeous. Does it die back now and produce babies? I think I remember it that way. My 'Vista' is blooming now, is yours? and cygnet is going through its winter die back.
Thanks Jan. That's 'nimbus' in the front.
Great pictures everyone. Olaf, that Queens Tears is AWESOME. I had one a few years back, but never saw it bloom. It was outside all year long along screen enclosure. It just disappeared. My hubby may have thought it was just grass or a weed and pulled it out. He says no, but sometimes the leaves on plants look like the type of grass that grows here, if it's not mowed. LOL
Thanks everyone!
Jamie: Billbergias, just like a lot of other Bromeliads produce one flower spike per rosette, and start dying back while making pups after they're done. Once the old rosettes are dry, just remove them. I have been so busy pinching the xCodonatanthus that I'm not exactly surprised that it hasn't bloomed for me yet. I am actually quite surprised that both my Alsobias are still looking as good as they do. Poor things! They always look so pitiful through Winter...
Eileen: Queen's Tears are tough as nails and can cope with (almost) everything you throw at them. However, being pulled out or mowed over isn't on that list... LOL
They have a tendency to bloom in mid winter but you can force the rosettes just like you would force a lot of other Bromeliads: by enclosing them in a plastic bag together with a ripe apple for a couple of weeks. That usually helps even the stubborn ones to send up a bloom spike. :)
Columnea 'Alladin's Lamp' putting out a bloom this winter.
Cool, Jamie!
At least one piece of it survived... LOL
That's a pretty one Jamie!
Lynn
Kohleria 'Peppermint'. I am in love with this Kohleria... :)
Kohleria 'Peridots Kitlope' x 'Pink Shadows'. Second growth cycle. Already making buds at 2-3 inches tall...
Codonanthe carnosa. Took many months to get started but now, this plant is hardly ever without flowers...
Saintpaulia 'Honeysuckle Rose'
Olaf, love that 'Peppermint' very cute and your violet 'Honeysuckle Rose' is AWESOME. The petals look irridecent. have to add it to my list. It is such a beauty!
Thanks Eileen!
I think that the iridescence is a trick that the camera played on me... Anyhow, the flower is definitely one of the "glitter"-type. 'Honeysuckle Rose' is a standard trailer and a very vigorous one for that matter... :)
I should definitely have enough leaves to include in the RR!
Olaf
Sinningia pusilla, muscicola and concinna. The three original micro miniature Sinningia species side by side. Primarily pusilla and concinna are the ancestors of all the other micro and miniature hybrids and cultivars. Sinningia muscicola has only been discovered a few years ago but seems to begin taking hold as a parent for hybridizing micros ('Lil Georgie') and miniatures ('Yma').
Box-o-micro mini Sinningias:
Sinningia cardinalis. The second tuber has decided to make buds. Plenty of them... :)
Saintpaulia 'Lucky Lady Bug'. She had a rough start but now she's doing fine and even has some buds coming up. Thanks so much for this little cutie, Lynn! :)
You are welcome.Why did she have a rough start? Was it my packing?Love your pictures BTW.
Lynn
Thanks, Lynn!
The rough start was entirely my fault. A mixture of high temps and a little bit of neglect on my part made her grow a real tight crown which I decided to simply pinch out and start over. Now she's happy and that's the result. :)
I'm glad you were able to save it.I seem to run into tight crowns sometimes too.
Lynn
I get the tight crown issue in the smaller ones when I don't wick them and I let them dry out one too many times particularly in Summer... Bad parent! LOL
Olaf
Olaf, I never get tired of seeing your pictures. Those tiny sinningia are so adorable.
Thanks, Eileen! :)
I seem to get the tight crown issue off and on all year.I think it's partly my erratic watering and partly water ph.It even happens to those on wicks.
Lynn
Olaf, do the micro-minni sinningias form tubers too?
They sure do, Jamie! :)
Here's two one year old Sinningia pusilla tubers, for example, with a quarter for scale:
Kohleria 'HCY's Jardin De Monet'. This shoot was finished at forty two inches tall... :)
And a closeup with the tape measure...
Episcia 'Silver Pink'
Episcia 'Silver Sheen'. Still looking decent in this rather mild Chicago Winter... :)
Alsobia dianthiflora. Semi dormant and ratty looking. One year old plants, grown from seed from the seed fund.
