Gesneriad Show and Sale, a Show and Tell =)

Here's an episcia 'Shaw Garden's' that I got, just because I fell in love with the hot pink flowers. Photo does not do them justice, that's for sure.

Here's a link to a mature Alsobia chiapas

http://www.aggs.org/conv2005/2005Winners/big%20pics/2005bestnewepiphytic.htm

now I'm excited! LOL.

looks like you had a blast!

love the S conspicua.

WHOAAA! Very cool! Glad you took a lot of pics for us...

Oh Lauri,looks like you had a great time . Thanks for the pictures.

I love streps and episcia and chiritas.There beautiful!

Hi Laurie,

They are lovely photos! TFS!

Joanne

Very beautiful palnts.

Beautiful ! Wow aesome plants ! Your 'Shaw Garden's'
has flowers just like my E. Teddy Bear and Pink Panther ! I love them !

ohhhhhhhh i would of had to have that lavendar strep with darker throat! my favorite color is purple and that one is amazing!

kelly

All of them are beautiful! Must have been difficult to make up your mind w/ all those lovely choices.

The plant Chatterbox looks like a lipsick plant I got recently. Are they related.

I love your plants. Beltane is extraordinary.

Yes, nanna, they are. Very similar but you probably know it better as 'Goldfish Plant'

here's some info copied from Lyndon Lyons home page

Nematanthus are commonly called "Goldfish" plants, having flowers that are pouch shaped. Blossoms come in shades of red-orange and yellow-orange. The varieties we offer are trailing plants and may be grown in hanging baskets. Grow in a south-west window, or under fluorescent lights, 14 hours daily for best growth and bloom. Let soil become slightly dry between waterings. Use a light porous potting mix. Feed plants regularly, using a well balanced fertilizer, at 1/4 tsp. per gallon of water, with every watering. Fertilizer may be increased to 1/2 to 1 full tsp. per gallon of water during spring and summer, when plants are actively growing, depending upon the size of the plant. (Larger plants can handle more fertilizer.)
here's the link where I copied the info http://www.lyndonlyon.com/CP%20List%20Nematanthus.html

Lorry sent me a big beauty a while back called 'Champagne Jam' that has huge leaves.

Isn't Beltane a beauty! And kohleria's are so easy to propagate too!

And just in case you wanted to read more, here's a great little blurb on them and codonanthe too (and intergenetic hybrids as well)

http://www.gesneriads.ca/genemcod.htm

here's their photo of 'Chatterbox' http://www.gesneriads.ca/nemata18.htm

here is the one I mentioned above that I had potted up lots of little starts at the greenhouse where I volunteer http://www.gesneriads.ca/nemata33.htm

And I did several cuttings of this one (LOVE LOVE LOVE the yellow flowers!) about two weeks ago so they should be getting ready to pot up soon. Nematanthus hirtellus http://www.gesneriads.ca/nemata11.htm and http://www.gesneriads.ca/nemata10.htm

That is almost like the one I just got. Here's a picture. Oops, forgot. Can't send pictures from this computer. I'll go to the other room.

This is my goldfish plant. It only has one bloom open right now, but there are many waiting to open. I have mind in a kinda west window. Will direct sunlight be too strong for this plant. The window is filtered with aragon gas between the panes so I think the sun is not too intense.

I just checked on line and I think this one is called Marianna.

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I would treat it like an AV, bright but not direct sun light. It's a beauty. Easy to propagate too. Just mix up some of your AV mix with at least 1/2 perlite and stick a cutting in!

You know, that is exactly what this plant looks like. Someone took some cuttings and stuck them in the pot.

hi nanna - it looks very well grown. It also looks like the standard Nematanthus wettsteinii, though I admit they all look too similar to me..... I grew mine on a SE facing windowsill with no obstruction and it did fine. The afternoon sun in a west window might be a bit too much - but any obstruction might be enough to lessen the light somewhat. I would just keep an eye on it.

Thanks Keyring. I am such a new comer. Everything looks the same to me. I love the little "goldfish" looking blooms. They actually look like Peperidge Farm goldfish crackers and the exact same size.

Laurie, Have you gone to any more monthly meetings? I remember reading the thread about Rejuvenating a violet and alot of other helpful hints. You posted pictures. It was very helpful. Linda

Hi Linda, I missed this last month's meeting (Memorial weekend) because I was ripping out my old garden and had DH for three days to help. I ran into another of our members at this sale and she said that we basically discussed AV varieties to sell at our own AV sale.

If we do any more tutorials, I'll be sure to take photos. I should have taken photos when Gary Beck was showing us how to hybridize. (how to take the pollen etc.)

But otherwise I have made all the meetings.

Thanks for the update. I will be looking forward to them.

I am busy outside too so I understand the need for the extra pair of hands!!. Linda