We need some fun while we work........pics please.....

How beautiful 'Black Gardenia' is, Gail! I've got 'Bristol's Blackbird' and can only hope that the blooms on it will be as dark. :o)

Awesome photos everyone! I love the strep.Spiritual Corridor.

Bless her little heart..............everyone loves her...........she is down to 3 leaves.............so just giving her a rest to put on more leaves before I share her again.............

She is one of the very prettiest Streps there is, I think. I understand why everyone loves her! :o)

Gail,look sweeie I have 2 Sinn MacKenie getting ready to bloom.Ones mom plant and the other is a cutting I took off!

Scarlet Red,mom and cutting.No sign of blooms but growing good.Can't wait till it cools down to send it back to you.

Those look wonderful, Jan! Don't you just love Sinningias? Can't wait to see the blooms! :o)

Rain, I loved it so much I sent it to jannich for fear of it dying......................she propagated it for me.................here is a picture.............she is a little dynamo................

That's just too pretty! Such a bright color! You knew Jan would grow it well. :o)

Scarlet Red is really that bright of a red!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! amazing color

I love bright colored blooms! Look at this one! :o) Episcia 'Chocolate Soldier' I think. This is the SAME one I keep posting a picture of, but the bloom has opened now. I'm completely in love with this one!

Tah Daaaah!!!

I am only announcing my birthday today to the Av forum................guess what i wanted for my birthday today?? .................just to have the day to take pictures and work on my plants plus I know I have 4 boxes at the post office from a fellow DGer............
What more could a girl want?.....................nothing else...................

This beauty is Ek-Lesnaia Ezhevika

***********I have some pics to post that i took today............sorry I don't have an editing program yet.......just to crop and that is all............(I have one, but don't know how to use it)

Buckeye Cranapple

closeup of Buckeye Cranapple bloom

closeup of Heartland's Lime Sherbet

GAIL!!!!! You've gotta give us little notice!!!

Well....

♫Happy Birthday to you!
Happy Birthday to you!
Haaappy Biiiirrrthday dear Gaaaiiilllll
Happy Birthday to yooooooouuuuuu!!!!
(And many moooooorrrreeee!)♫

Big birthday hugs to you!!! :oD

That picture you posted whose name I can't spell is gorgeous!! It looks huge!

if she has a name, I have lost it! (LOL)

How neat that you can type the way it is sung.......................thanks..............that is another of those Russian from Bluebird.........am dying to study up on them.................the man in Boerne who has the AV nursery says that Russian Avs are going to be a hot thing at the state convention.......................can't wait until November...........

just marked a hybrid seedling

another hybrid seedling

Happy Happy Birthday Gail!! Hope you have a great..FUN.. day : ))
Nancy

'Kim'

That pink hybrid seedling with the yellow stripes is one of the prettiest Streps I've ever seen! You need to propagate that one, even if it isn't named. :o)

You read my mind Amy.Thats the one I love too..oh wait a minute..Kim is a knockout too..looks velvety: )

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The problem is I lose the names................so when I can't find a name..........I call it a hybrid seedling(LOL)

I am too lazy to go back to the back room and see who this one is...........

Well make a note to check the next time you go in there. I'll trade whatever you want for a leaf of that one and the pink hybrid!

Kim's blooms are gorgeous but her foliage lays flat.........I like the big foliage standing up......

Isn't it gorgeous, Nancy!

Gail, I only have one Russian left. The mom plant died, but I managed to save a leaf and it's putting up babies now. It is Kofeyniy Aromat - Coffee Aroma. It's the big red one on the left in this picture. http://www.avsa.org/Russian/Pictures/Makouni'sCoffeAromaAndreeva.jpg Do you have that one?

OMG thats another gorgeous one Gail! how many streps do you have girl?? WOW!!

Very pretty russian Amy.I have..... bear with me... I know I am going to butcher this name roznov zelmchug?? LOL I am too lazy to go look at the tag!

Nancy, Rozoviyi Zhemchug has a wonderful pink and white bloom..........let me find a picture of her............I have new blooms today also...................blooming for the second time........the blooms are even prettier than they were the first time...........She is the pink one in the middle of this group.

Amy, I like that one but I love the purple and white on the right of it..............what is that??????????

I should have made very clear, that is not my picture! LOL None of my Russians ever got that big! I sure hope I can grow this one I've got left to look like that one, though. I'm trying to look yours up...

I didn't know it was your birthday, Gail. Very Happy Birthday to you! Have a wonderful day.

Beautiful plants and great growing on this thread...love seeing them all.


Buckeye Cranberry Sparkler (8745) 07/27/1998 (P. Hancock) Semidouble bright pink ruffled pansy/variable raspberry fantasy; raspberry edge. Variegated dark green, cream and pink, plain, glossy/red back. Large

I saw that in the plant files..........and I made a note to order that leaf.............she is too pretty.............in fact, I found several Buckeyes I decided I wanted to grow............i was disappointed with several I did grow..........but now finding some real winners in that series.....

I wondered the same thing, Gail!! That little blue and white one is a doll! We'll have to do some searching... It looks like a semimini.

That RZ is a beautiful one!

And Snowrose, my goodness how gorgeous is that?

Goodbye Ladies...................going to first go the post office and come home and play with my begonias..........

Have a great birthday, Gail!! :o)

HAPPY, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU MISS GAIL!


Today is my hubby's Birthday too!! Good people born on the 29th of August!


Hope you have a Beautiful Day!

No need to order BCS...I have leaves.

I will say it is one of the best Buckeye's I have ever grown. It is just a good variety. Grows so nicely...symmetrical and nice even variegation. The blossoms are beautiful and complimentary to the foliage.

Thanks for the correct spelling of my russian gail...lol.. told you I wouldn't spell it right!

Snow your BCS is awesome.The foliage is so cool : )