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First bloom this year

"Mango"

Grown in a pot for 3 years- don't know it's name.

Your mango is a neat color.

Good for you Ghia, this thread is a must!

Sadly I don't yet have mango, it looks to have a violet flush, lovely!

Yours looks very healthy jmorth, lovely whatever it is.

I have a few new ones this year, one I got from a supermarket was supposed to be Pink Persuasion but it looks like Z. rehmannii, possibly 'superba'. It has at least 7 flowers on, most now opening. This was a week ago with the first open,

Z. aeothipca 'Crowborough' I had in the ground a few years, but it dwindled to nearly nothing so I dug it and found many small bulbs. After at least 3 years in the greenhouse I have 3 pots with flowers in each, even the smallest ones are producing. Even though they came from the same tuber, all look to have different shape flowers.

They started 2 weeks ago,

This one is nearly flat, it's in the pot with the smaller bulbs so could be just immaturity,

Jmorth - Very pretty - three year? that is awsome! What do you do with it in the winter?

Wallaby - I love light/whites - planted ten this year in two pots can't wait.

So far mango has been fun, it started out yellow and has changed to a bright reddish yellow. This is today new bloom on "Mango"

This pic show the difference.

I have this one - taken a few days ago.

Here are some in the garden

HI Wallaby!!!!!!

Hi Steve!

Would it be true to say you like yellow! I remember you ordering those! You have one of those funny shaped blooms, I like them!

Nice setting you have, daylilies, calla lilies, lilies.......

Mmmmmmm, I have two Black Star! Both making a spathe.....

I bought a ton of Calls from the Pacific Calla co op. Planted them right away. I see nothing. Should I see something? Shouldn't there be a sprout or something? Or do I have to wait until next year for any results?
I'm Depserate!

dwerland if you got them late they will take a little while longer to appear, I planted some late and they are just starting to show. They need to make roots and establish first, my rehmannii I started inside in January. The others, which I already had, started in growth in the greenhouse in March. Some are just making some spathes now.

Give them time, they will grow!

Thanks for the encouragment!

ghiagirl,
The Calla in pots are taken to basement to overwinter. I just leave them thus till the next spring. Before returned to the elements, I usually repot or top dress. I might dash the pot with water once or twice during their basement confinement, but basically they're stored dry. The pots used to grow them are 10 or 12 inches with styrofoam drainage.

Here is a couple of mine. this one is Summer Sunrise and the leaf and the flower are on the same stalk.

This is Blaze

This one is Solar Flare, very bright yellow.

I don't remember the name of this but it is pretty, it is a very pale yellow.

Last one, pale pink not sure of the name.

They are all pretty Vi, I love the colour of Summer Sunrise!

While we are waiting for the flood of pics, here's one I took of my 'rehmannii superba' (Pink Persuasion subs.)

I have never grown Calla.In zone 6 do I have to dig & store the bulbs in the winter.

Here is a green calla that found me and my wallet back in April. It was just sitting there in a shopping cart full of potted blooming callas waiting for me to come by and adopt. It was actually even greener than the picture shows. Today it is full of fat little seeds.

first bloom on "Cameo"

ctindell, I left several callas in the ground last fall and all survived the winter just fine. Several people from this area (zone 6) had told me of similar experiences with them and that gave me the guts to try. Another DGr in zone 5 reported that hers have overwintered several years in a row in a protected courtyard.

Nice green pard, I wonder how it will turn out next year.

ghia, your Cameo looks white, mine start a green-yellow and turn to apricot with a tangerine flush.

Neal, good to 'see you'! I guess you have been busy.......

Vermeer was nearly there last night, closer today....

Wow love the mango.
Pardalinum and Ghia_Girl never seen callas like that before, very nice

Wallaby, that is a nice calla, with the lady bug and all :o))
It will be interesting how it look like when it opens.

“Picaso”


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Lovely Picasso zest, it's a little more 'fuchsia' than I have seen, I wonder if it will darken?

Vermeer is very dark, some say it's the same as Picasso but I think it's different, the shape is also different.

It's possibly a little darker than shows.

Been looking through the plant file, and they do look darker than mine.
It actually went a bit greenish, the photo is frm the first flower.


I agree it does not look the same to me at all.

The trube on Picasso looks very long, Vermeer is squat, very different!

My Majestic Red looks different this year, it started fairly light but has darkened, still a different burgundy to last year. The bright red comes later with a heavy pollen set as it did last year.

It has been in a hot greenhouse, that is when the sun has shone and the temps have been above 12C! Now it's outside, the tubes are creamy this year (so far) too. I wonder if the hot weather last year 'preformed' the colour for this year!

This is from two separate bulbs, which are from the one originally.

Very pretty ;o))
That is right very different looking.
It actually would be interesting if hot conditions has something to do with it. Seems as it does.

oh goody. I was hoping vermeer and picasso were indeed diff. My Picasso has been blooming like crazy, no action on Vermeer yet.

nice pics everyone.

Thanks Gemini_sage I appreciate that info. I will try one. They are so beautiful.

This is Cameo before it gets the flush, it was raining all day yesterday so I took this in the evening when it was dull in a short break from rain.

First year growing these beauties. Why didnt I try them earlier???

This is the cameo first flower from above, it's a double. Color is light pink or pink blush.

How odd, I've never seen one like that. Very pretty though.

Cameo

Red Galaxy has came up.

Couple of strange looking ones, this is Schwartwalder

This is Summer Sunset, kinda spotty.