Yup everyday at DG 's African Violets and Gesneriads Discussion Forum is Christmas !
Thank you Spider " Anna" You Spoil Us :)) for the wonderful box of goodies !
Anna sent me three beautiful Streptocarpus plants ! And a beautiful no named Optimara Girl plant full of pink rose flowers.Out of all Optimara Girl leaf plants and they sure have a lot I wish I had them all :))
Looks like Optimara Meg to me :))
Optimara Meg (6963) 11/19/1988 (Holtkamp) Semidouble pink two-tone/lighter center. Medium-dark green, glossy, wavy, serrated girl foliage. Standard
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Also Spider sent Precious a beautiful T-Shirt with a big beautiful bright cheery butterfly on the shoulder. Of course she put it on right away as soon as it came out of the package ! Dad took it off when he came home little after noon as it was so hot. I took a shower and we all went for nap so will take pictures tomorrow of her !I did take pictures of the plants.
Looks like it's late so pictures I've been taking for a few days till today will be tomorrow.
Thank You ! So very much !
Hugs, Allison and Precious !
Thank you Spider " Anna" You Spoil Us :))
It is a pleasure Allison. I got the shirt to match with her butterfly bonnet.
lots of love
Anna
Thank you ! It's really fancy :)) She loves it ! Many Hugs from both us us and Precious says lot's of kisses too :))
Pictures of the Pretty Streptocarpus plants Anna sent me :)) Thank you again so much Anna !
This is Jasom !
Jason showing off again ! I just love the deep colors.
beautiful strep!
Prettiest blue Strep
Thanks Nanna ! Good Morning. Anna sent me three beautiful Strep's ! The white one had no flowers yet .
I just bought strep for the first time about 3 weeks ago. They were in my local nursery. Can I divide the crowns?
Anna sent me a large beautiful Girl foliage Optimara plant. I think she is Optimara Meg !
She has the prettiest healthy leaves even before I cleaned her and sprayed with neem oil !
Strep's do not have crowns. If you want to divide you can. I like my plant to get large. A leaf will only live and flower so many times. So new growth is important. Trim old leaves and flowers. You can get flowers on a stump. I grow my Streps once mature enough in Pan Pots. They have shallow roots, like small pots and their roots close to the surface and never wet around them. They enjoy dry feet.
When Progated Streps by leaf each new leaf grown from Mom is a Plantlet and can be potted in their own pot. No crowns.
My meg
That's Meg alright. I have her as well. She was one of the first violets I bought. Mine like to be in a three inch pot and blooms best if the crown is above the rim of the pot. The outer leaves drop down and allow the new leaves to spread out a bit.
One more of her !
She is beautiful. Amazing size and nice and healthy girl foliage :))
Similar to my Vintage Sassy Shell BUT yet totally different .
I think she is so pretty !
Anna and Spider sent Precious a cute fancy T-Shirt with a pretty butterfly on it that matches her new sun hat !
She has been wearing them and loving her new Dress ! That's what she calls them. I still have to get pictures of her and her new Dress ! Soon :))
Allison thanks for the infor of strep. Here is a picture of my Meg
You can see, as the blooms get older they are lighter pink. I love Meg. One of the prettiest girl plants, I think.
She sure is pretty ! Optimara has many girl foliage plants ! Sure wish I could have more of them. I have one leaf coming of one of the Optimara girls !
Spider Anna did you see these !!!
Allison, I saw the ones you send me the link at Optimara.
:)) Did you get your box :))
How are you ? Hope you get a little rest :))
Hi Allison,
I think my box will be coming tomorrow. I am fine. I took some photos of my animals and will be posting them tomorrow.
Things are a bit easier at the moment as I do not have any young babies that need feeding in the middle of the night.
I found out that one of the squirrels has one blind eye. It will take longer to release her adn I will need to do a lot of work to make her independent. I posted her picutre a while ago when she was a little pink baby. she is big now. You will see her photo tomorrow.
I can't wait for tomorrow to arrive so I will have my beloved plants! Thank you, Allison!
I can't wait to see pictures of your sweet babies Anna. How were you able to tell one has a blind eye ?
Can't wait to see them !
Hope your plants arrive in perfect condition and you like everyone !
Allison, one of her eyes is blue/grey, instead of the usual black.
Oh you are so smart. :))