I just picked up this cute pink strep. Cheap but no name. Does anyone recognize it?
Quick ID on a new strep
Here's a close up.
That's sure pretty, but I don't know enough about Strep's to identify them! Love that pink flower!
I'm sure someone will come along soon to give you a possible name for that Beauty!
I don't know names well enough.........you could go to www.robsvioletbarn.com and look at his Bristol series....
Some of my nicest ones are just hybrid seedlings............
It is a beauty!!!!!
Rob's really does have some Beautiful Strep's! Wow! Don't know why I never looked at these on his website .... guess I'm always too busy looking at the Violets and Chirita's!
http://www.robsviolet.com/streptocarpus.htm
Oh Man ... I had to go back and look at some of those individual pic's on Rob's site .... I just love Bristol's Tie Dyed, Ribbon Candy & Rhubarb and another named Iced Pink Flamingo! Wow! Those are so Beautiful, but they all are! Makes me want to try to get better at growing Strep's! :) I need more room!
Doesn't he have wonderful Bristol series...........some of them have great blooms but stay a little compact for my liking...........I have the Iced Pink Flamingo..........it is the prettiest strep I have...............have to go back and look at the others you mentioned as i don't have those........
Oh how I wish I had room to grow a lot of these!
I guess there is no such thing as a quick ID. There must be dozens of pink streps out there!
Has anyone read the short story by M. Shayne Bell called "The thing about Benny"? I won't give the story away but it features a streptocarpus. I bet you didn't know there were any sci-fi stories about houseplants.
J
"sci-fi stories about houseplants...."
Little Shop of Horrors!
I've given you sunshine
I've given you rain
All you ever give me
Is heartache and pain....
Won't you pleeeeeeaase
Grow for meeeeee!
Also, I'm thinking that "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" comes close. And I can't quite remember the name of a book in which a blue orchid figured prominantly... got it! _The Nanoflower_, by Peter F. Hamilton
The Nanoflower, huh? I'll have to find that one. I've read Little Shop but had thought of it more as fiction or musical than sci-fi. I like the new a different plants that authors invent for the future but it was fun to read about common houseplants like philodendron and goldfish plant and streps. I guess I should have written streps instead of houseplants because there's probably a sci-fi story out there about spider plants or aloe vera :)
Of course it's Sci Fi... the Audrey II came from outer space, remember? During a "total eclipse of the sun" LOL.
Hmmm, a story with streps in it... I'll have to work on that one!
I like the Peter Hamilton that I've read. I think _A Quantum Murder_ is in the same series... part sci fi, part mystery novel.
I had forgotten about Audrey's origins; it's been a long time. Isn't it funny how you remember parts of a story and forget the beginning or the end. Sometimes I pick up a book and it takes me a couple of chapters ot realize I've already read it :)
I'll have to look up Peter Hamilton. Mystery and sci-fi are two of my favorites (after gardening books, of course!)
:-) If you're ever out this way, you'll have to drop in (of course).... and then you'll have to take a browse through the "book room." Most of the books filling the shelves (on all walls) are SFF, which DH has been collecting for years (I've added a few too)... and I have a couple of mystery authors that I enjoy also (Lindsey Davis, Diane Mott Davidson). We've had friends/relatives pack up a big box of books they wanted to borrow, and when they're done they just mail the box back. :-)
Boy, if this weren't your thread to start with, Kat, I'd have to apologize for going waaaay O/T! LOL