"Green Goddess" shows her stuff.

The first one since a spring planting of a new bulb.

The plant and flower.

Closer.

they are blooming for you now? I love this plant. Mine bloom in early spring. In fact, they're pretty much dormant now.

Lucky you! It is late to get flowers, it looks good.

I bet it's been getting that water/food treatment, it works well!

Love that leaf shape.

Must be the love I've been beaming at it......

We've had a much "cooler" than normal August and now the days are in the 80sF and nights in the low 70sF or lower, on occasion. Maybe the more moderate temps spurred the bloom........

I have fed it several times over the summer, but nothing excessive--I didn't "push" it in any way.

It is an aethiopica and being constantly wet is just what it wants.

My "White Giant" (or Giant White-which has three babies coming) has nice large leaves, but a lot less than the GG ).

Corrected to give recognition to the Giant, not the Goddess, who's multiplying like mad)

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Nice, hunh?

Wow.

I like!

Gee those are high night temps for this time of year, we had 14C (57F) last night and today and tomorrow is going to 25C (77F), that is a good summer temp., not at all typical for this time.

Today's pic.

the cut flowers last forever in flower arrangements.

vossner~

Do I dare tempt fate by cutting the Goddess? Oh, the pain............

Wallaby~

This week we have days in the 80'sF and nights in the high 60sF, mostly about 68F.

It's fall already and I hate that.

Robert.

I didn't cut the first one, did not have the nerve. but liking it sooo much, I bought more bulbs from a B&B sale and last year I had several flowers. Then it was easy to cut.

and yes, it is "fallish" even in houston TX, lol

Gee what's your winter like!

If that is a hateable fall I daren't think, your night temps are like our day temps for now, and that's warm really for this time of year!

What I hate about fall is the end of summer, not the temps. I love the fall weather and the leaves changing color and the end of the torrid heat and lower humidity, the cool breezes etc. What I hate is the end of summer. I guess I should have said it that way.

I had such a wonderful time growing things and gardening and etc. that I just don't want it to end so soon (it seems.)

And now I have to figure out how to stack all the new plants and old indoors. I hate having to force them into dormancy "for their own good" because they'll just tire out in the low light if I try to keep them going.

A little bit more showing today.

Now that's what I call being cheeky, it's throwing it's green mane back at us in defiance.

Ditto to the above, I have had more fun this year than ever, taking part in DG, taking pics, it's going to be a long, frustrating winter.

I've had a lot of new butterflies the last day or two, the offspring of those I had earlier. Strangely they never seem to be as flighty as the parents started, even those I had this summer weren't worried about me like last year's were for a start. It makes me think they must have passed the message on to their young, 'she's OK kids'.

I'm worried about all the old + new plants I have to store inside, but I think a lot of them just go into dormancy naturally and slowly anyway. It's going to be a master stacking job!

And it all happens in a day, when the weather suddenly decides to change for the worse.

You have a good eye, wallaby!

You picked up on the insolent flip job the Goddess pulled since the day before. It was apparent when I went out and looked at Her Nibs. The bloom had moved to that sassy lateral position from the more upright (usual) stance for Zants.

I've been watching the proportion of green on the tip, tracking it from day to day. Not much change so far, but I think from maturity on, it will grow quickly.

Robert.

Well she's just about reached her maturity.

Lilting insolently, awash in her own fabulousness........

She draws you closer, lets you admire Her, but careful, your wings may burn........

These marks are Hers alone.

Another slave to GG,
Robert.

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Robert, the Goddess is lovely! And lucky you to have blooms now!

Is that huge, lovely plant with spots your giant white? Is that an aethiopica? LOVE IT!!
I've never seen one that big with spotted leaves- gorgeous with or without blooms.

Green Goddess, she is making me smile!

Thanks Robert for the entertainment!

It does look to have the same strong growth and leaf shape as Pink Mist, it is a X aethiopica.

What would we get if we crossed the Goddess with the Mist?

Green Mist?

gemini~

Yep that's my Z. aethiopica 'White Giant' pictured in the Sept. 5 posts above. I got it from PDN and it's listed as an aethiopica from the California garden of Sonny Garcia. Tony states that its "classic, large, creamy white" blooms were on 7 foot (!) stems. No word on where it was before Garcia grew it--local nursery perhaps--but only he would know.

The leaves are *super* thick, more so than GG, but like standard aethiopica--leathery-rubbery. It is very unusual for aethiopica to be as potted as in WG.

See: http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/Detail/03695.html

The largest leaf (the one I have my hand on above) is 16 inches L by 9.5 inches W at the widest point. Lush...........

And wallaby~

Giant White x Pink Mist (or vice versa)? Lots of possible variations there...........Yes........

We'll *have* to see what can be done about that! Will have to see how long Zant pollen keeps.........

What was the height (and age) of your Pink Mist when it bloomed earlier this year?

Robert.

The height I have just measured to the top of the seed pod, it's 36" but is a shorter head this year, add the extra height of the spathe...I don't remember if I did measure it, I think I may have somewhere in the thread of callas.

You may be able to freeze the pollen.

The age is difficult, as I got it as a thick stem division around late August/Sept 04. Last year it grew well and flowered early in June, I kept it in the greenhouse over winter and it goes dormant.

It is very quick growing, a cross with the Giant White should be interesting!

Still looking fresh as a (coff) daisy........

Cool curves.

Is that the same bloom? Beautiful!

Now you're boasting! Cool curves indeed!

I must obey the Goddess, I must obey the Goddess......

She *made* me do it, I swear, cause she caught me making pix of White Giant .

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/652566/

She *will not* be upstaged, She cannot be denied, I must obey the Goddess, I must obey...........

Do I dare make pix of "Captain Chelsea" which is still blooming and just threw out a spathe-leaf?



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Ok Robert, what's your secret? You seem to be the only one who still has callas blooming!

Oh yes definitely boasting!

Go on then, we WANT to see pics of Captain Chelsea too!

I agree with Neal, you ARE the only one with callas still blooming, what is your secret?

Bragging? Boasting? You say that like it's a bad thing. :-)

Ok Here ya' go.

All of 'Capt. Chelsea'. The old bloom on the right is about 2 feet tall.

Bloom coming.

The upper edge is really a golden color--camera just hates yellows......

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Spathe-leaf.

What *is* the real word for that?

New leaf and bloom coming. Seems to be a new division.

If I knew the secret I'd tell you.

Seriously folks, the Green Goddess and White Giant are aethiopicas and so this would be their early spring south of the equator....so I just expected it....maybe later, but hey, if they want to bloom now, who am I to argue?

Don't know about Capt. Chelsea. Planted that one very late and thought it wasn't going to make it.....then, boom!

Shamless bragging:

I have a scape of Tuberose coming............

Robert.

Mmmmmmmmmm. Capt. chelsea is, is, is, just amazing! keep boasting and bragging please, that's what we all do! We're just jealous!

I think they call it a leaf-spathe, first a leaf, then trying to be a spathe. I might be wrong!

It could be a late planting that brought on new flowers, along with your extended season. I find that some plants have a certain life span, if planted early they will finish early. Planted late they finish late. But your are right about aethiopicas, Pink Mist is a cross but they say if in a mild climate and kept evergreen it can flower all year.

Just watch that Goddess, she WILL be jealous!

Is Polyanthes tuberosa hardy? I haven't really looked much into them. They are very scented aren't they?

The Polianthes is said to be "borderline" hardy here, and I just left them in pots all winter anyway (no protection etc. as I did with the pink rehmanniis in another thread) and they come back. I think the winter dry did the trick. They were in soilless mix under a tree, so they didn't get a lot of rain in the winter and the mix dries quickly.

They sprouted early this year and I think late frosts got a few of them before I could transplant them out of the large tub they had been in with other perennials.

But I did get them into a pot of their own. A good number of small bulbs that didn't bloom this year, er, until now...... (Somewhere along the way, I put them in the ground--too hard to keep up on thew water--they were overcrowded.)

The place I have them now isn't the best, not now that the sun's angle is changing so rapidly, and they've been a bit overwatered by the rains--that's why they are a bit "floppy" just now.

I'll prolly dig them and store over the winter and plant in a better site in the spring and let them stay in the ground.

And yes, they smell *gooo-oooo-ooood!*

Definitely worth planting!

I'll post pix if they don't get cut by the cold.

If I was *really* going to brag, I'd ask if you want to see tha last of my daffodils blooming.........

Whhhhaaaaaaaaaatttttttttttttt?????????????

Now you're teasing!

Have you got some of those autumn flowering ones? I'm sure I've seen them around somewhere...........

Tee-hee.

Yes, I'm just kidding. LOL.

I went out to check the foliage on Capt. Chelsea and it's *very* thick...... alot like the aethiopicas I have............does albomac have really thick foliage?

I'm new with Zants, so I'm just learning about the variations in foliage.....

Just wondering where the Cap'n got his spots and going on this late, maybe there some aethiopica in there.

Robert.