Weekend Blooms 8/25 & 8/26

Magnifiques 1st bloom

5th Dimension

peach cap

Wild at Heart opening up. She is taking her mighty young time today.

red cap

Hi Cat, Very Nice!!! I love Magnifique i only wish mine would keep the buds and bloom more than once a month!!!

Here are Gator Pride, Big Easy, Hot Bikini, Yuletide & Forever Young

"Blueberry Hill" is new for me

Old Faithful "Blueberry Thrill"

"Lavender Lady"

Love that Wild at Heart and Blueberry Thrill. Nice pictures Cat and Robert.

Blueberry Thrill should be called 4th of July with that red, white and blue. The more I see the odd colors the more I like them.

Intense Passion was still blooming this morning, looks even a little better than it did yesterday

Hi Ardesia,

I agree with you. There is actually 1 called blue flags that is very similar to it.

Thanks for posting these pics, Robert! I've been looking up the ones you listed for me and I hadn't been able to find Lavender Lady, Blueberry Thrill or Hot Bikini. Adding those to the list of flower pics with the names you sent. I'll ask you questions about shrubs once I narrow the list down a lot more! Thanks!!

Not much for me today ... it's been raining a LOT so my pics kept getting more and more fuzzy with the humidity so .. here's a try! This one is one of the Breeze versions ... Belize Breeze? I don't remember.

And here's another Forever Young bloom ... this is the second bloom in 2 days. The other one is still on the plant but I'd already taken it's pic so I didn't take it again. :)

Amanda,
Forever young is a real knock out. Absolutely beautiful.

Robert,
You know that Blueberry Thrill is one of my favs.
And, by the way, all the girls are looking quite beautiful. The majority are rebudding again :)

WOW again!!! You guys are so good.

Thanks Kell For Today
Cosmic Dancer

Cest Bon

I have been robbed Robert. Look at my poor C'est Bon. Woe is me.

Kell, that one is beautiful! You and Robert have such different climates maybe that explains the difference. They are both beauties.

Hey Kell,
I am really suprised the cest bon even had color today. It cooled down a little and has been overcast. Most that have bloomed have been a very pale pink to white with no defining pattern. I just got lucky on this one! When it gets cooler in a couple of months they will be a beautiful lavender to pink when they open. And by the way, yours is still as pretty as any of them!!! Right now I just feel privileged to have some blooms to post with everyone because they are all so beautiful !!!

Nice blooms, everyone. Robert, your Cest Bon is gorgeous.

Cat, I really like your Wild at Heart pic, and congrats on your first Magnifique bloom - are you in love now?? Magnifique definitely is in my top few all time favorites.

Amanda, again that Forever Young is lovely :-)

Liz, that Intense Passion flower looks super bright. Does it have that same sort of "neonish" hue that Hot Bikini has?

Robert and Kell, I like both your C'est Bons - although they are different, they're both super pretty. I'm excited to see your pics on this one, as I picked up a little baby C'est Bon at the HVH show yesterday. Actually, my mom bought it for me as a gift to celebrate my upcoming return to work :-) I hope mine blooms as pretty!

I've got some to post, but I won't be able to until later tonight or tomorrow morning :-(

karen

Hi Brugie
Thanks so much.

Hey Karen,
Just going to leave us hanging? It's just not fair I tell you LOL

Hi Karen, I don't have Hot Bikini so I don't know how Intense Passion compares, but I don't think it's quite as bright as it looks in my pictures, I think that must have been the flash or something. It's a nice dark red with some yellow spots on it. Honestly when it first opened I had to check the tag because it looked a lot like Sunshowers which was blooming for me several days ago (except the flower is bigger). Mine doesn't really look like the pics of Intense Passion on the website where I got it from, it's supposed to be more ruffly and have more yellow on it, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the next bloom!

Thanks on the Forever Young compliments ... I just wish the shrub was more ... (shrubbier?) ... pretty. I keep saying I'm going to take it back but ... I've hung onto it for a while and the blooms are tremendous and last for 2 days so ... :)

Hey Karen & Ecrane3
Here is a "Hot Bikini" and you are right on the intense passion Mine has yet to look like the one on the site that mine came from. I think it will be blooming in a few days if the buds don't drop. When it does maybe we can compare them.

By the way Amanda very nice Forever young!!!

That does look a lot like Intense Passion...well, since you have them both, you get to make the call on whether they look alike or not when your IP blooms!

Hey Robert, your Hot Bikini pictures are consistently beautiful! Where do you have this one, is it in shade, sun, ? Mine starts out pretty, but when it's hot like this, my edges get really brown and crispy :-(

Okay, better late than never, right? Here's my weekend blooms.

A new bloom on Moonstruck.

Erin Rachael in the twilight.

Palm Springs.

Cinnamon Girl had faded a bit since I didn't take pictures until I got home from the HVH open house, but she's still pretty!

My favorite bloom Saturday is Black Dragon in the garden. When I got home early evening and went outside, this bloom was so large and beautiful, I just had to take a farther away than usual shot to show how outstanding she made my garden section look :-)

Woops, I left out Tsunami.

So that's what Tsunami looks like. Now I want one!

Here's my blooms from Sunday.

First is Palm Springs. Seems like I've had at least one bloom a day for a while now.

Voodoo Queen had two beautiful blooms Sunday morning. HVH had quite a few large Voodoo Queens for sale Saturday at the open house, and I was surprised that people weren't snapping them up right away.