lol your all making me laugh :))
February Bingo Game..Please join our game!!!!
hey... googling the names to find photos of the AVs so you can make a better guess isn't "cheating!" It's research! LOL
True Jill, PLUS it really is fun when you actually can identify some of them....lol
I like the challenge of just looking at the descriptions of ones you don't know and trying to match to the photo... Although even if you google to find a photo, it won't necessarily be an exact match to the one posted, so it's still good to go by the description... keeps us on our toes, brushing up on recognizing girl leaves or wasp blooms etc.
:-)
I don't have a clue as to what is girl foliage or boy foliage and I'm assuming a wasp bloom means it sorta looks like a flying wasp? I'm so bad, I can't even figure out on the Optimara ID website which one I have by looking at pictures!
So, alas .... I will most likely have to wait until she posts the name! With the exception of my own photo and one other I remember cause I loved it so much! :)
Can someone give us a link to a pictorial of AV's? Optimara Id website? I'd like to bookmark it for future reference. While I'm in question mode, is it true that once an AV's name marker is lost it is forever nameless as in a NOID forever?
Deborah♥
My favorite site for finding pics is the AVSA (African Violet Society of America) photo gallery. Here's a link below. I almost always find what I'm looking for there.
http://www.avsa.org/photographs.asp
K
Yes and you will find a lot of them one vendors sights like violet gallery, Bluebirds and so on.
Thank you K, I've book marked the AVSA site!
Ooh, I want to play, just for fun-looks like ya'll are having fun over here!
Get yout card in :))
Got my card in, but should've read the rules first (always was pretty good at disregarding those!)--I don't know the first thing about AV's other than how to kill them, I'll never be able to figure out the calls! LOL!!!
Oh, don't worry about knowing them, most of us don't...I will tell you the names...after I post the pictures....LOL You will be fine!
Oh That's Ok you don't need to know anything about Av's to play ! But you'll have fun and learn about them and see pretty pictures !
Thanks for the support-these things have some cool names-Fickle Flirt, , Irish Flirt, Makin Romance....Is there a Spiced Rum AV?
Well there are
Spiced Burgundy (2702) 05/31/1975 (E. Kiesling) Double light pink. Plain, quilted. Standard
and
Spiced Peach (Baker) Semidouble peach two-tone frilled. Variegated, ruffled. Standard
and
Spiced Wine (5583) 11/14/1983 (S. Lang) Single bright pink star/lavender fantasy. Dark green, plain, pointed, quilted/red back. Standard
Guess you could add your own Rum :))
-A few for the Rum Lovers :))
Rum Collins (I. Fredette) Double rose-pink/violet marking. Variegated dark green, rose, and cream. Standard
and
Rum Punch (S. Sorano) Semidouble-double medium pink star/mauve tips. Dark green. Standard
and
Raspberry Rum (B. Elkin) Single raspberry-red two-tone large star. Dark green, round. Standard
I missed one :))
Hot Buttered Rum (S. Sorano) Double white and yellow/pale fuchsia edge. Variegated medium green and white. Semiminiature
So if you crossed Spiced Wine with Rum Punch...
Boy, you guys sure know how to party over here!
That would be neat someone should try that ! I wonder what the flower would look like ! I wanted to post pictures of these two but FC has no pictures.
32 cards!!!!!!!!!! already wow this will be so excitting @ when we get close to bingo,i can sit back and laugh lol this is going to be hallaris(sp?) lol
keep them coming
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sorry. even though i never win at bingo i just wanted a practice run.
Mamajack: You are a hoot! I can see that this is gonna be a fun game!
Darn i missed bingo AGAIN mama how did you beat me lol?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOODLUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOW I bet we top off at 40 or more Bingoers !
I bet you get Bingo Mama
I think Janet might be planning a booby loser prize too :))
Janet: Will you be starting a new thread on Feb 5th when you begin the calls?
I think she said yes new thread !
Thanks Allison .... I've been busy and haven't read through this long thread in a couple of days. I must have missed where she said it.
Can't wait for the game to begin!
Oh my, are we going to have some fun!!! Yes, new thread when we begin....I will post the thread link here on the 4th...okay...Allison, I would love to see Hot Buttered Rum....WOW that one sounds delicious!!! LOL
He everyone get your Bingo cards in :))
Here is a picture of Artic Echoes....I imagine a lot of people feel rather ARTIC today...
One more Artic Frost....also very sweet!!! I have the blooms picture and the plant I will post both...just warming everyone up for the game...LOL
The beautiful plant....I will be posting more than one picture of the calls, if I have them...like the bloom, and the plant...or even different pictures of the plants....and/or blooms....for you to see as much as you can....I am getting really excited....crazy, huh!
Allison, is it normal for the flowers to be so varied on one little plant...that is just so beautiful to me..to have of those variations of the flower on one plant...cool! Artic..coool...lol
Your right on, Janet. That IS an amazing AV.
Arctic Frost (S. Sorano) Semidouble white large star/variable blue-marked eye, edge. Medium green. Standard
I've seen it a lot. . I have seen it most often in fantasy bloomers, though my Morning Thunder and other plants always did it ! I love it. I think they are trying to be like one of their other parents ?
Another picture of this one in FC
So Pretty!
Here's two Noids I just had to buy at Wal-Mart the other day!
Allsion, that bloom is magnificent!!! It looks like it it a triple bloom....I guess it is like a sibling, they favor but aren't twins...LOL Jill, I tell you the truth, looking at so many pictures, made me want to remove a wall so I could have enough light to grow hundreds of them!!! There is such an assortment...I just had no idea... I would venture to say there is most likely few plants that have so many different forms and names...does anyone know? I mean are AVs like the most variable plants there is....surely there aren't this many varieties of too many plants....well, I guess maybe daylilies....but how about house plants, are they the KING of house plants as far as how many different ones they have?
Those are both beautiful! I am such a sucker for the violet looking flowers too...the red is very pretty too..but I just love those blues/purples!
Love 'Arctic Frost' .... the color and the ruffled flowers! It just makes me want so many more AV's.
Janet: I'm LOL about you knocking out a wall ... sounds like me, I've been talking about one room inside the house for just plants! Wouldn't it be amazing to have an indoor garden room, with hundreds and hundreds of AV's blooming all at once?! If I were to win the Lotto, I would HAVE to make that one of my Priorities! AND, it would be a VERY LARGE GARDEN ROOM! :)
Lin
I really would love to make my deck a GARDEN room...if I had the money!!! A huge Florida room with the roll out windows and shelves everywhere....just would love it!!! Then I could make a small bricked patio below that on the area that is now grass and have more garden areas around the patio..just do away with most all of the grass in the back yard...I would love it! BUT it would cost a lot of money I think...I don't know much about those things, but I did get an estimate on my basement and I could almost build a small home for what they wanted to finish it...of course it is 2600 sqare feet...so it would be like another house inside this one...LOL...I also have a very high roof with Dormer windows in the attic space..have thought about making a room up there and putting in sky lights...but when I get really old I may not be able to climb the steps (no steps at this time)....LOL DREAMING on all counts!
If you want more now, just wait till you see some of the ones on our list..they will have you drooling for sure!!!