Blooms for 08-17-07

I only have 2 today:

Plum Crazy

High Voltage

Only a handfull here

Lavender Lady

"heartbeat"

"moonlight Madness"

You 2 are so spoiled. Spoiled rotten! LOL

Just so pretty!

"Mon Ami"

Thanks Kell,

As are yours!!!

"Erin Rachael"

This message was edited Aug 17, 2007 1:51 PM

Great pics all :-) I particularly like Lavender Lady.

I don't have a whole lot here either, weather is just too yucky I think.

First up is another new hidden Belle de Jour.

Cajun Blue doesn't want to come out to play, and I can't blame her ;0)

Black Dragon is always beautiful until it gets to 100.

Erin Rachael has triplets.

Palm Springs has bloomed a lot less than last year, but has quite a few buds now. Hopefully they won't all drop off...

Strawberry Fields Forever with a bizarre bloom, apparently undecided as to be a single or a double.

Brugie, I said I wanted more yellow in my Tangerine Dream, right? Well, I think this is a case of "be careful what you wish for". Apparently I should have qualified my request with a "more yellow, but not too much". I can see that this is going to be a cultivar that looks a little different each bloom.

Have a beautiful day!

karen

LOL! That was a good dose of yellow, for sure.

I didn't have much blooming today. This one was new tho... Happy Days

This one doesn't have a name.

Everything that has bloomed to date....I think.

I finally have a few more! This is Fragile Moment when it started blooming on Wednesday (I'm a few days behind on uploading pics from the camera!) Please ignore all the stupid little black bug things on it.

And this is Fragile Moment today, this is the 3rd day for this particular bloom. The colors have faded, but the bloom has lasted surprisingly well!

And the new one for today...Simple Pleasures

To give you some perspective on the huge size of the bloom, here's a shot of the whole plant in its 6" pot:

Brugie, your collage is great! I like the ruffly edges on Happy Days too.

Ecrane, I see your Simple Pleasures is back to normal - what a large and beautiful bloom!! It's as big as the plant :-) I also really like your Fragile Moment. Mine has only bloomed once but it's been growing really quickly, and I'm hoping for new buds soon!

karen

Simple Pleasures is a great looking hibiscus. Gosh, I really like Fragile Moment, too.

I'm surprised the teeny little plant can hold up that giant bloom, when I saw how big the bud was yesterday I thought for sure when it opened it would tip the plant right over! I'm sure once the plant grows a bit the bloom will look a little more normal, right now it sort of looks like some sort of freak of nature! A very pretty freak of nature of course....

Some of my best friends (or alternate personalities, lol) are freaks of nature ;-)

I'm not really into yellows, but Happy Days is a winner!
Fragile Moment is quite gorgeous.

And Strawberry Fields Forever would have a home here forever more. WOW what a bright bloom. I already want more than I could even fit here. I am going to start pollinating mine. I might as well grow out a few seedlings just for fun! Seeing all these combos really gets me going.