Just thought this was gorgeous!

Couldn't take my eyes from it this morning....luckily it was a nice overcast morning and I could get a good pic of it. So hard to get a good pic when that AZ sun is out lol

That's a wonderful chocolate color!

Oooooooooooooooh! That is very pretty! Love the frosting on the tips, too! :-)

That is a nice looking chocolate...

OOOH I ♥♥♥ it!!!

Nice dark color.

I love that one. : ) Save the seeds. : )
~Lucy

Very nice and very frilly.,.....
A.

Thanks everyone! You can bet I'll be looking for seeds on that one.

I can't quit looking at it. It's soooooo pretty. It doesn't even look real. It looks like a painting. : )
~Lucy

I'm telling you, I was doing the same thing this morning, was a shame when it finally wilted.

Ditto! .. lovely!

X

Very nice! They are one of my favorites also. - Arlan

Thanks! Here it is again this morning, just lovely.

Hi,
Is that 'Rose Silk'? I got some seeds from EmmaGrace a couple of years ago and it looks pretty much like yours.

Mine would be chocolate. There's a whole thread on here somewhere discussing the differences between the two. Even as "chocolate", this particular plant sems to have some very nice qualities that I would like to keep going.

They favor Yuzuuki(spelling?). The Japanese names give me trouble until I memorize them and that takes time.

To me Yuzuuki and also your flower looks just like Heian No Akathuki exept it is chocolate. It also favors a type of Akatsuki in chocolate. So I feel pretty accurate to say your flower is a large flowered chocolate.

Some of the Yuzuuki right out of the commercial packet throw wider white picotee than this picture shows. Some of the flowers show increase of the white on the vine with each flower. Karen

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BTW, That picture does make the flower look lighter and rosier than it was in person. These are definitely very brown or choclolate in color and not at all rose or mauve. Karen

One more showing some of the increased white. The average flower size was 5 inches but there was a range from 4 to 6 just like the advertisement for the seeds said. Karen


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azreno, I just love that nice, wide, white border it has. : ) Very lovely.

~Lucy

Just beautiful Karen!

Lucy, I do, too, just love it.

azreno, Yours is exeptional. I hope you get plenty of seeds! Karen

Thanks karen, me, too! I'd love to send you some :o)

I`d love some of those. Thanks! Karen

Cool! I've been wanting to send some seeds to you........these pink blizzards are my first and I'm so pleased to have them. Just never knew what I might have that you'd like LOL

that mg just keeps putting out gorgeous flowers...
Brittany

Thanks for the comments. I will try to find the other thread discussing the differences between chocolate and rose MG. The one I have makes very large flowers, but a lot of them are so full they look weird. Also, they tear very easily, and need deadheaded to look good. Very pretty nevertheless with the variegated japanese-type foliage.

Azreno. . .

Wow!
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4042182

Unbelievable. . .
If you get enough seeds to share, please count me in.

I grew an interesting 'Brown Silk' this year for the first time. Unfortunantly it got tangled up with other vines as I had to be away for a period of time. I did manage to get a couple or so seeds and want to grow it out again next year. PURE SOLID with no picotee edge. A real keeper.

Actually, I grew several types of Rose Silks/Chocolate Silks this year . . . and even Rose Silk Blizzard that is incredible!

Emma

Emma, I'm glad you bumped this back up. I love looking at these chocolate MGs. Now just look at yours. : ) So pretty. : )
~Lucy

You said it! All are amazingly gorgeous!!! WOWZER!!!

arreno, if you have any seeds I could send you whatever you want for them. Dmail me if you can. Thanks.

Judith

Thanks Emma :) I grew one like that last year, came from the same batch of seeds, funny the variataion you can get from these "chocolates".

Sadly this darn thing is not setting seed yet, it's a small vine :( If it doesn't soon I may lose it. We're pegged to have a warmer than normal winter though so we'll see!