optimara rita ..new pic

i have been taken with optimara rita...looks like a pansy to me

and the purple..blue optimara...like this one a lot

oops..here's the pic

and this collage of both

you are right Bob - it is pansy like - how simply lovely!

Oh I LOVE the blue one! I got an Optimara yesterday similar to your pink one, but not quite the same. They're both very pretty! Had to broaden my search and go somewhere besides Walmart. Lowe's came through for me!

Their beautiful Bob ! Great pictures :))

thanks everyone...have a great day...

They take my breath away.

Can you believe that anything can be this beautiful. I just love flowers.

so glad you folks enjoying them

Very Very pretty Bob :)
I really like the multicolor flowers a lot..:)
always have...actually I guess I have not seen an AV I don't like!

I like Av's with patches some people call them thumb prints !
How about pretty Rhapsodie Rosalie

I think Optimara Degas 11 is cool it only has thumb prints on lower petals !

FC has two picture of Optimara Degas 11 . Though I think the one above is so cool this pic is pretty too !

oh allison i really like that "degas....wow such pretty ones...now i will have to watch for those...and love that rhapsodie....thanks for sharing

yes - I agree!!

Hey Bob- I just wanted to let you know that one Taxodium seedling is in my garage in a perfect dormant state (good terminal buds, robust) and one in my room has green growth just beginning. Thank you!
Kenton

Oh wowowowowow..I would LOVE to get my hands on thumbprint! Simply stunning!
Rosalie is stunning also...Allison..you are bad for my addiction! :)

well Kenton..as i've been working in my front jungle..i am finding more and more of those Baldy cypress seedlings....glad there doing well...it is impossible to kill those buggars and their roots go so deep.....you should see the mother tree...our heavy winds took practically all the leaves off...and the squirrels nest!!...

Oh yeah, Bob. I continue to successfully forget to ask you this: Does the Cypress tree affect the soil around it, (i.e. acidifying, poisoning, etc) and do other things grow well below it? I also was curious (I'm completely insane now...) if the seeds are collectible. If they are adaptable to our climate, I would like to be able to supply my gardening clients with trees that 1. Other Coloradans find novel but is not invasive, and 2. is not an ash tree. Planting a million clones of that ash tree is very bad for biodiversity and pests... but everyone does it anyway. Oh yes: 3. Aren't they pretty!?

Kenton

And I have a song that makes me think of you and I in this forum, Bob. Next time.
I also have some other plants for you, but that will have to wait 'till spring.
Kenton

well KEnton...it feels like spring here..lol..and didn't i see on news that denver is at 50's today...crazy....i would be very cautious about the baldy cypress..as there roots are everyplace..under sidewalks etc..and i can't plant things where they are as the "knees" are so big....guess one could spend his lifetime chopping out the roots with an ax..it is a nice tree...but for open spaces with water i think.