So Pretty! I have buds now on my old reliable Strictum. I am happy I never got around to cutting it back.
Pics of 2014 blooming season
New blooms but repeats of earlier posts
Microb, what is the name of that yellow? I would love to find one like that.
new blooms this morning. Nice feathering on the inner petals of Dracula.
Morocco
Dracula
Charlies Angel
We call him #3
Missed this one this morning - Grace Ann
Dracula.... Be still my heart!
Lol
My Dracula has been slow to mature. I don't know what's going on with it. I love your Morocco. I don't know why so many of our hybrids are shades of pink and look so much alike. Looking at the crosses I still don't see a reason for this. bob
Plenty of blooms this year, over 100 this month. Mostly repeats but there were two new ones this morning. First one is Snow Leopard and the second is a NOID
Two New ones - Irette and Bayou Belle
These are all so inspiring!
This evenings new blooms.
Went into one greenhouse today and to my dismay there was this limp Queen of the Night bloom. I MISSED IT! Oh no.
So going through Epi postings this evening I see a note from Linda asking a question about my Queen of the Night. Flash of aging memory, of course, better check on the two buds hanging off the front deck. Rushed out and sure enough they came out this evening. If it was not for Linda's question I would have missed two more. Where is my brain!
So here are the pics, one has its back to me and I cannot turn it around. I had to rappel over the side of the balcony railing to get the best shot I could of the other one and it turned out to be "not too bad". Pouring with rain at the time.
These are early. I think I see some micro buds on another branch so hoping for more in a few weeks.
Momlady - I obviously have my head buried so deep in my Epi plants that I must have missed the point in Gourd's comment. I thought Gourd liked the bloom and it made the heart race, or is there a more sinister twist.
Please enlighten me as to the cleverness. I don't got it! :)
I just love the bloom, and it is beautiful, and it did stop me in my tracks. I have a morning glory I named Dracula, it is a really gorgeous flower to go with a great essence, and thus flower you posted fits the bill. I just got a couple of cuttings of this EPI from a great generous DGer that saw my want list. Dracula will live forever in name and legend, whether sinister or in wonder..
Nothing sinister meant by it.
Well, I just figured that since, once bitten by Dracula, you become one of the undead, thus you have no heartbeat, and thus "Be still my heart!" But maybe I saw more than was intended. :-)
Read Bram Stoker's Dracula as a teenager and it scared the he!! out of me. I wonder if it would do the same now.
I might find that book .. I love anything to do with Dracula. I remember the old Bella legaucci (I spelled this wrong). films and used to feel that scared to death feeling. I think once we get older it still there kind of. I haven't kept up with the more current vampire movies but just got some books from another DGer and it's amazing what we have in common here in this garden site besides flowers. I love it here, that's one reason I never leave, the variety of friends and their likes is so varied, that here is no reason for me to look else where.
I like your thinking though..it makes sense if you get bit.. That's what happens. That's a neat analogy ..
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Yes, It is amazing how much we DGers have in common. I'd love to hear from you if you read Dracula - it'd be fun to get your verdict. I like the old classics where they can scare you without the graphic violence...they just leave it to your imagination...
It's just amazing how different people have a different take while looking at the same thing.
Show me a picture of a horse in a field. My wife sees the horse, I see the trees - what horse?
Me: what classic car? DH: what garden? :-)
I love all your blooms. I hope that one of those large epi plants has at least one bloom. Do these bloom through sept? I might have a chance if they do. In California I think I had blooms all year, I really don't remember it has been so long.
I find that most blooms come May, June, and July then taper off. I think I had a bloom in October last year and then I had a bloom in January this year and some in April. I'll take what I can get to make that gap in between as short as possible.
This year I'm keeping a record of # of blooms by variety by month. I know I had no blooms in February this year, November or December last year .
Recent new blooms, first timers for me
First one is a NOID
Second is Mary Betty
Well, these aren't blooms but I thought you'd like to see what I did with my new cuttings. They looked kind of stark so I bought a six pack of lobelia and a six pack of allysum and jazzed up the pots a little. They'll probably only last in these pots two or three years but it's a way to get them into a good morning sun spot.
Forgot to post this one. I went to the farmers market this morning and there on a table marked for $5 was this Epi I didn't have. After a rugby tackle to three people ahead of me and a quick elbow to a guy twice my size I was at the front of the line, threw down the five dollars, grabbed the pot and I was away before people picked them selves up.
Nah, all that stuff about rugby tackles and elbows is a fantasy.
I know the guy at the plant table and there were no other customers anywhere in site. But it was $5. When the blooms finish I will cut off the top 8 inches and make two. It was a fresh cutting just two months ago and it was pure luck it bloomed
Wow, I had that almost same fight with 3 women at lowes yesterday over an echinopsis dominoes with a huge bud on it and 5 more to come.! and I too won that fight. ( alas, in the real world the 3 women were only my darling hubby saying, are you going to buy that too?) Still, I won that fight. LOL
Congrats on the find!
A beautiful Epi morning in the Hawaiian sunshine
Where did everybody go. No postings for about a week
Today Vista Sun and Bagdad opened up
Never seen Vista Sun before. What a white.
Next two are a couple of my cutting benches
Hee hee - I don't post because I have nothing to contribute, but I come here every day for some eye candy!!
Mike, I just had to let you know. The yellow cuttings you sent, have buds on them. I am doing the happy dance!
Here are a couple of blooms.
Dracula and King Midus.
Hi Linda,
Nice to hear about the buds. Keep dancing but don't break out the champagne just yet. To get a better root system we are supposed to remove the buds from cuttings, but I'm like you, I want to see blooms. The cuttings will do just great over the long term. I've also discovered multiple times this year that if the cutting cannot support the bud they will drop off anyway.
on my end, your cuttings are doing fine.
Good Luck.
Mike
HI Dee,
Nice pics,
Your cuttings are looking good, no growth yet but early days.
Mike
They are beautiful.
Oh, Mike, in my heart, I know you are right. I should pull off the buds. I really want to see the flowers though, so I may let them stay and see if they survive till blooming. I might just pull of 1 of the buds and see what happens.
I am still potting up some more noids if anyone wants them.
Glad to hear the plants I sent are doing well.
Check this one out. I haven't a clue what it's called but the flowers only lasted one day. What a shame they were gorgeous.
Wow, what would we do without our camera's. I don't the name but maybe Bob will take a look and give us some ideas. Sure is beautiful
Just had to come back and take another look. I love white blooms.
Deehomedee, did it bloom during the day, or at night. It looks a lot like my epi strictum.
I could be very wrong though. I can never identify them after they bloom. I will post my newest epi strictum and oxypetalum flowers and let you decide.
It blooms during the day. There's another one out there today. It just so "spidery", I love it. I would like to know what it is. I'm still getting blooms on the "Dracula" too. I'm going to redo the potted area behind my pond soon. I may even rethink the epi display area. I keep getting more of them and I'm going to need more space as they grow.
The white appears to be Strictum which is a native epie just like Oxy-Queen of the Night. From these natives all hybrids were developed. The first picture is my strictum which I love. The second picture is a hybrid I'm trying to identify. It was sold to me as Vista Sun but obviously isn't. I wanted Vista Sun and have waited for four years to discover a no ID. This bloom is beautiful and I would love to identify it if possible. bob
