with all the busy of today........I just glanced over at some nice chimeras and one Buckeye Cranapple
We might need a new thread for pics???
forgot to say that the first chimera was 'Blue Triumph'
this one is Victoria Ribbons............I have never seen such big blooms but then chimeras are new to me.........
Northern Reflections is so much prettier than the camera makes her with her fantasy bloom
The blooms on Buckeye Cranapple are so big and nice................
I should not have started a new thread..............begoniadude started a good one............let's go to his below my thread and finish...................
Gail: This is a good thread for new photo's. I think Begoniadude's thread was just looking for ID's for his plants?
OK...............let's go...............gotta go find something I can take pics of............everyone else, too!!!!!!!!! (LOL)
I know..................I have to show this chimera until you all are sick and tired of her!!!!!!!!!!
Harmony's Little Stinker...................
look how big she is getting...........and I am still afraid to cut the crown (LOL)
Chirita 'Stardust'.............a gift from Lin when I first started trading or she may just have given her to me...................
Wow! You are a great grower Gail! I am so excited to see the AV 'Harmony's Little Stinker'!! I got that one recently from Snow and just LOVE it! Can't wait to see blooms on mine!
Well ... I can't seem to take a good picture for anything but here is my AV 'Spring Kiss' in bloom:
Irish Kiss with just one bloom open but lots of buds:
I love both plants and foliage..............soooooooooo girly girl................where are you all finding these fantastic names? I have so much to learn about what to order..........think i am better off just copying you all and shopping at these av sales.................
I am excited that Snow sent you one of these..........i have to get brave enough to start cutting on mine............(boo hoo)
I got Spring Kiss from Bluebird's early this year and Irish Kiss came from a lady in my local AV club.
Here's my favorite Semi Mini Purple that you gave me Gail. I think I just posted a pic of this one a few days ago, but it is full of blooms now:
You know what......................love that plant and next spring I am going to ask for a leaf or two.............mine that has the double purple bloom is a different plant..............not as pretty and big as yours.................mine acts like a true mini...........yours is fabulous as a semi mini....................wow..........you have done great with her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lin.............you are really rocking and rolling with your plants.............congrats
Do either of you grow Alsobia? If so, are they easy/hard? Are Chirita's easy/hard?
I consider AV's hard so they would have to be easier and require less light. That is why I decided (with the help of Gail) to start with Streptocarpus :)
You girls are just the BEST! I am SO happy to have found you. Love ya lots!
Kim
My Alsobia Cygnet just bloomed for the first time.......................I had given up on her............she was sent to me last February from Allison who is no longer on DG............take a look............i stuck her out on the front porch, looked her straight in the eyes and told her she was getting some fertilizer and then she could either die or bloom.............less than 10 days later she started to bloom........
ooo I am just loving all these blooms! I went and made a collage of some I have blooming now so I think I will try and post it here.Only thing is there will be doubles of some.I hope I can remember what the names are....lol..ok..starting on top left going right...Row 1...Rainbows Quiet Riot,Ma's Winter Moon,dup of riot,Flashpoint,Row 2 flashpoint(again) Yellow Brug,Swedish mormors Mossa,Mormors Mossa bloom closeup.Row 3Concord Chimera,Rob's Whatever Chimera,Harmonys Surprise Chimera,White Strep From Amy.Row4Purple strep from Amy I call "Purple Rain"dup of quiet riot,dup of mas winter moon,dup of quiet riot again....LOL I don't know how to remove the duplicates so I just left them in : )
I have an Alsobia 'Cygnet' from Allison too. It was not growing at all ... someone said to put it outside which I did and it bloomed and began to growing a little too. Then, it kinda got hidden behind something else out on the deck and didn't get watered. I found it yesterday when I took all the orchids down to feed them. I am going to baby it so maybe it will perk up. I have a basket of Alsobia 'dianthiflora' that was looking soooo pretty a few weeks ago. it got left out in the rain and now looks pretty sad too. I think I read recently that Alsobia's like and can handle cooler temperature's too, so maybe I should move them back into the air conditioned house. Our temp's have been hovering at 89-90 degrees for quite a few weeks and the humidity is still horrible! I might move them inside tomorrow and see what happens.
Now, don't get me started on Chirita's .... I LOVE them. I have found them very easy and have a few:
C. 'Aiko' (Have 2 of these and a leaf with baby)
C. 'Betty'
C. 'Crossroads'
C. 'Diane Marie' (not doing well)
C. 'Kazu'
C. 'Kitaguni'
C. 'Linearifolia'
C. 'Little Dragon'
C. 'Periwinkle'
C. 'Silver Surfer'
C. 'Sinensis Hisako'
C. 'Stardust'
C. 'Vietnam'
I think my D. Marie started failing when I repotted it with a wick and put it on a reservoir. I think it's getting too wet. I need to repot a couple of things with more perlite in the mix!
There are so many more out there that I would like to add to my Chirita collection but am waiting until Spring to buy any more plants!
I think the Chirita's and Episcia's are ending up being my very favorites of the Gessie family! Maybe it's because I am so new to them. I have a feeling I might have a few more favorites in the next year or two. I have one Petrocosmea that I am really liking the looks of and next year may get a couple more of them. Gee, I may end up in a few years having as many Gessie's as I do common generic houseplants!
Oh, Nancy, your collage of blossoms is sooo pretty! I love that Collage thing! One of these days I'm gonna download the software and learn how to do that!
Thanks Lin you would love making collages I am sure!.., You know..It never ceases to amaze me how plants some people find so easy to grow..I can't grow to save me! LOL Like Chiritas for instance! For me they just sit taking up space without blooming.I have seen pics of some of yours in bloom and they are so gorgeous! Please!! tell me what secret you use to grow them so well?
Gail looks like the talk you had with your Alsobia Cygnet paid off.Love that bloom! I know after I finally set mine outside this summer it really took off and bloomed so nice with alot of new growth.I kind of hate to think of bringing it back inside for the winter for fear it will go downhill again.
cedarnest your collage is just beautiful and I have now added the Concord Chimera and Rob's Whatever chimera to my want list, they are just beautiful!!
Lin your Irish Kiss is another I'd love to have some day! And Gail that Harmony's Little Stinker is always great to see!
The prettiest AV I have blooming right now is Thunder Surprise and it is just full of blossoms!! My camera doesn't do the colors justice on it.....
~Brenda
Gail here is the little Teddy Bear stolon you sent me in my bingo box back in June, it's ready to pop some blooms any day now and is such a pretty little plant now. I've even started a little stolon off of it....
~Brenda
My computer hiccuped on me and had me double posting so I'll just get rid of this one...LOL
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I have some other blooms happening right now but what I was totally taken with today was the foliage on my Kholerias ....they are just beautiful even without blooms......although I still want some!! LOL
Here is Peridots Kitalope...
And here is Brimstone...
Emily Roberts....
Marquies de Sade....
Here is Tane.....and it looks like I'll get some blooms soon from this one!!
This is another pretty gray one.....Snakeskin
And Warszewiczii ....
Now I have a question I hope one of you can answer..... When I re potted these Kholerias awhile back I found rhizomes that I took out so I can start new plants or share them. I read Keyrings advice in the stickies about keeping them in moist perlite and in baggies until you see them start to grow but I want to know how much perlite, should they be buried and hidden in it?? And should keep blowing air into the baggies if they go flat???
Here is a picture of what they look like right now and I'm wondering if this is OK or if I should do something different??
~Brenda
First of all.................nancy i have concord...............she is fantastic looking.............all your plants look great...................mine is new so she has never bloomed............
Everyone is having better luck with their Kohlerias and Episicas than i do...........i have them wicked and i am going to have to add more perlite (like Lin suggested) if I am going to grow them as well as Brenda is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is disgusting to see those Kohleria foliages that pretty without bloom......................
Yours look great, Brenda.............
Seeing everyone's pictures is one of my very favorite parts of DG...............what happy campers we are with our babies..................what one can grow another can't........i am about to give up totally on episicas.........and Brenda is showing one ready to bloom and mine has died (LOL)
Brenda..............i guess everyone has a different way of growing those Kohleria rhizomes..........Snow told me to use my regular mix......cover the rhizomes about 11/2 ".........I did that a week ago................just wicked it out in the open.........no cover at all............let me take a picture...........(but i have to say that when i saw some green plants coming up today, I panicked and put her under glass)...................
be right back............
If you strain your eyes you will see that there are 4 little green thingys coming up............I quickly put her under a dome when i saw that........
Wow, that didn't take long at all, you just buried them it a week ago??....I have some little tiny guys like that just poking up with the big plants over in the window but nothing happening with these other rhizomes I took out of the pots.
Hmmm, I may have to go with your method here....
~Brenda
I had no idea what i was doing...................and didn't even think that she should have been under a dome............just wicked her and left her under the lights.........until today when I noticed those little plants coming up..........she said 11/2" covered up but mine is a 3" pot with 3 rhizomes from 'Laura' that snow gave me as a baby and I let her die...........she did have some good rhizomes................
Snow told me that 3 rhizomes to a 3" pot would make a beautiful plant?????????????
It doesn't hurt to try this way and see what happens.........
Remember Keyring works so hard and gone a lot of the time and can't check all the time like you and i do..................so she finds a way that works for her...........
**************'me thinks' Ki is never in as big of a hurry as i am in wanting plants immediately...........(LOL)
What a wonderful way to start the morning with lots of beautiful plants. Lin, I love your purple mini and Spring Kiss.....Gail your chimeras a so pretty, you have such great plants. Nancy, I have always thought Concord was very pretty, your picture convinced me to order one from LL. Thanks Ladies.
Forgot to ask ---Nancy where on earth did you find the Swedish plant Mormors Mosa? I just love the way it holds that bloom straight up.
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good morning, Susan.....................on my first cup of coffee and moving slowly...............
Good Morning Ladies .... I've been lurking a bit but need to go out and do yard work before the rains come in!
Catch up with y'all later!
This is the first time this has happened to me!!!!!!!!! Check out the mother leaf on the back of the little plantlet that has not been separated from the mother........................the baby is blooming......................just fascinating to me........
That is sooo pretty Gail. Now isn't that just like kids? They want to grow up and bloom before Mama is ready to let them go!