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: Gessie- last month I posted a picture of a strep labeled "Midnight Flame". No one corrected me, but I recieved a logee's catalog today and I see that Midnight Flame is a dark red. Do you know the real name of this one , or is it a Midnight flame and Logee's has their's labeled wrong? Thanks, Lou
This message was edited Feb 6, 2008 7:31 PM
Very pretty flower.
Midnight Flame is a very dark red. I had bought a lot of streps in the beginning from Gary Mitika and on the plant he put a label marked like this: Midnight Flame ????
Sorry about that.........google Streptocarpus and you will find the strep pages by A, b, c,etc...........and try to identify what you have. I recently was able to identify 2 old ones I had that didn't have a marker on them. I sent them to bmedel and now we have a name for each...............
Someone is going to recognize her as she is so familiar............purple with the yellow center...............
This message was edited Feb 6, 2008 8:08 PM
Ok, I'm snooping way back here trying to catch up on what I missed while I was on hiatus!!
Lou if you haven't found out yet ..... the strep in your picture has got to be Party Girl!! It matches mine perfectly with the purple fantasy bloom and the yellow throat! Each fantasy is different but the purple and white fantasy with the yellow throat is a giveaway.
Gail I am assuming that the beautiful red one you sent me is then Midnight Flame!! I saw a picture of Midnight Flame online recently and thought it was a dead ringer for mine! LOL I'm writing it down so I can stick it on my plant now.
~Brenda
Brenda, I think you are right in the Midnight Flame................
The one I call Stawberry Froth turns out to be Poochie.........
Here is the one I sent you and I kept a leaf so I have a baby.
OMG Gail! I love that color!!! So it's called Poochie?
That is what Jim King told me and he has over 300 cultivars of streps.
Gail both Poochie and Midnight Flame that I got from you have been taking a break from blooming recently. They are getting ready to start again soon though. I love them both but Poochie is truly a beauty!
The big Iced Pink Flamingo from you just sent up beautiful bloom. I had moved it from the prime spot in the front window and it pouted for awhile but now I have moved it back and she is happy again! :)) I am going to divide her soon as she is so big. My cousin is anxious for piece of her. LOL
Here is Midnight Flame from the last bloom that was up, and I harvested a bunch of seeds from her too. I'll have to tell Kim that the "red velvet" seeds I sent her are Midnight Flame!
~Brenda
Brenda, I have recently divided all my big ones and now they all look horrible (LOL)..........yours looks great...........and they do love to be divided........I just took the knife and whacked them into 3 pieces..........not doing that again as the ones I did carefully divide crowns are doing much better................and look a heck of a lot better...........
Ack! Your scaring me! I hope I have the courage when my Strep gets big enough...My little Jules sure is growing - larger leaves and looks like it's about to put on a new one.
Ohhh, Jules!!! I am so envious Diane!! I've wanted to get one but it's been too cold to ship here since I saw it for the first time this past winter! Can I ask where you got yours? Has it bloomed yet?
Gail here is a picture of a Maassens White I cut apart last November, I didn't think it would make it.....but check out the next picture I'll post!
~Brenda
Here is that same plant from this morning. It took a solid month for it to re coup from surgery but it has done very well ever since and the mom plant didn't miss a lick!
Now see, if I had your camera you would see the beautiful blush of the yellow throat on this white bloom! ^_^
~Brenda
Since I was commenting here on plants I had received from you Gail here is a picture of Black Gardenia from this morning, gorgeous isn't she??
~Brenda
Wow the Maassens White looks so great! Cutting apart one still scares me though!
And the Black Gardenia!! Amazing color! WOW Gotta love it!
My Jules is just a baby so no blooms yet. She's my first Strep ever and I got her from Susan51 about a month ago, I think it was. Can't wait for her to bloom- the pics are gorgeous! I was so afraid something would happen to her (i.e. me kill her!) but so far so good! LOL
Wow is all I can say Brenda about your ability to grow those streps. I have lost my 'magic' and am a little encouraged seeing that Maasen's White took a while to recover from surgery!!!!!!!!!!!!
That Black Gardenia must have 15 or more blooms on her.....such a beauty!
Black Gardenia is gorgeous! I am so glad the M.White is all better now!
Sally, you weren't on DG when I started selling plants in the classified ads.........Brenda bought these from me.........but I tried to swipe a leaf from each plant before they left to the post office(LOL)
They are really nice plants! Good that you remembered, you forget to do that sometimes, right?
OH, my two leaves from my Sunlit Sugar Plum have babies!
Well if they had missing leaves you sure couldn't tell, they were huge!! ^_^
I also got 4 AV trailers at the same time! So far this one is my favorite because of the multi layered pink bloom it has! But the others with the pink in their foliage are beautiful to look at flowers or not, I've been so happy with them!
Here is Trail Along with the first blooms it produced for me, there are more now.
~Brenda
Hi Brenda,My trail along is blooming too! I love the flowers,they look like roses to me.
Don't you just love the trailers? I like all the trailers!
My trailers are just now getting buds on them. They are being slow bloomers.
Oh my, Brenda! Black Gardenia is just spectacular!! I love it!
Gail, Poochie is absolutely beautiful! I love the way the blooms are so high up!
Trail Along is gorgeous, too. Ahh, the AVs I'd grow if I could grow AVs! LOL
Strep 'Spin Art' has developed her colors in the last few days. Much more vibrant now. You still can't see how pretty and bright the yellow throat is, though. Darn camera...
Strep Bristol's Tropical Twister is showing off again, too. This one blooms so often! I wish I could get a dozen or more blooms at once like all of you do, though.
Strep Cherry Pie She needed to be repotted, and I didn't notice until I was repotting her that she had a bloom stalk caught under her leaves. It made the flower sort of crinkled and without good form, but the color is still so pretty.
Gail, Strep Shenandoah Shooting Star is shooting up babies! ^_^
I hit send too soon. I meant to say that when I put down Strep leaves, I cut the leaf at an angle so that several veins go down into the potting mix. That way I get more than just one baby plant. Sort of like cutting out the midvein and putting them down sideways, but they always die on me that way. This is a nice middle ground for me.
I've also got a couple of Orchids blooming that I'm thrilled about! And let me say, this is what I love about our little forum here - we can post pictures of any plant we want to and nobody gets all mad about it. Hugs to all of you! ^_^
This is Dendrobium unicum. I have watched these buds grow and grow and grow... and I didn't think they would EVER open! LOL Finally they did, and I simply could not be happier! ^_^
Here's a closeup of one of those blooms. I think they're lovely! UT Vols orange! LOL
And finally Dendrobium Bohemian Rhapsody. Really, with a name like that, I had to get it! LOL
Oh Amy!! What some beauties..That Spin Art is amazing..I have a baby of that coming in a trade box from Gail this week and I am.. to put it mildly..Excited!!..LOL...Tropical Twister has always been a favorite of mine..a regular blooming machine..and oooo your Cherry Pie looks delicious..You sure can grow those Orchids..Absolutely Stunning..The colors in that Orange are so pretty and..well you did it now..LOL..I am going to be singing that song in my head the rest of the day^_^
Thanks, Nancy! You'll love Spin Art! The fantasy Streps are some of my favorites, but the colors in this one are just amazing! Hopefully Cherry Pie will put up another bloom stalk soon so we can see some non-scrunched flowers.
I have discovered that Orchids are not at all as difficult as I always thought they were. Very similar to Gessie care, really. The pot of the orange-flowered one is only about 1.25 inches across. Very tiny!
And that song...I've been singing it since I took the picture. LOL We're such goofballs around here - we call one of our dogs "Moose" (her name is really Rain) because of her enormous ears. So we sing that song to her and instead of saying
"I see a little silhouetto of a man
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango"
we say "Scare a Moose" as we tickle her sides. LOL She loves it and gets all riled up to play. Here's a picture of her and her enormous ears - 4 inches top to bottom! LOL Wish I had this in color...
oh thats funny Amy..such a cute dog..looks like shes crossed with a bunny....LOL...I love her big ears!!
Oh my goodness ... how did I miss this thread?! I guess I need to actually click on the main AV forum once in awhile to see if there's anything new along with the threads I'm watching and posting on!
Well ... now that I'm posting on this one it will show up in my watch list whenever anyone posts anything here!
Love all the beautiful photo's ... great growing ladies!
.... now, what can I say about "Moose"?? He is sooo handsome! My next favorite thing to plants is animals. I miss having a dog so much. I get to visit my sisters and all their dogs but for now we are a 4 cat family. I do look forward to the day when we can have another dog come live with us.
aaah ... Moose, what a great name ... that would be fitting for my nephew's dog "Bubba" who weighs over 200 lbs! An English Mastiff ... a huge, slow moving ... gentle giant! This photo was taken at Christmas ... he's put on a few pounds since then.
Mornin' All! Love the dogs! Amy yours are beuatiful ears and all. ^_^ My middle daughter wants some type of Mastiff so badly!! She is a dog lover but I can not see all 105 pounds of my daughter dealing with a 200 pound dog!! She is determined to get one though!! LOL
Jannich your Trail Along is much more sedate and pretty than mine right now! I adore the blooms but it's time to take my plant apart and share on of the crowns I think.
Spin Art is fabulous and I will end up with one eventually!! Rain the Tropical Twister leaf you sent me produced two very nice babies that I just potted up so I'm looking forward to my first blooms!
I like the idea of cutting the leaf the way your saying. I succeeded with the vein out lengthwise cut but the sheer abundance of babies and their tiny size and slow growing was just too much work for me! A few nice sized babies is much better I have found.
The orchids are beautiful, I can't believe that one is growing from such a tiny pot, amazing!
Rain remember the little piece of Beefsteak Begonia with a small baby growing from it that you sent me last June?? Check it out......
~Brenda
Nancy, when you get your Spin Art and Remembering JOhn, don't panic when you see that I had to swipe some leaves from you. I meant to take a leaf from Lin's Remembering John and didn't. I am now down to one Spin Art and two Remembering John's so Brenda, give me a little time to make some new Spin Arts and Remembering John. They are two of my favorites.
Brenda: Mastiff's are huge dogs. I know there are a couple of different ones. The English Mastiff that my nephew has is the larger of the Mastiffs. Bubba's daddy weighed 280 lbs and mama weighed 240 ... he will be somewhere in between. I don't know about the intelligence of the breed ... just know Bubba kinda goes where he wants to go and is so big, he walks over, backs up and sits on the couch ... sometimes on your lap! As a puppy he was all legs and it was so funny, he couldn't seem to get out of his own way.
Lurking as usual!! I tried to start a new thread in Feb and didn't know how. LOL
Bmedel--Thanks for id ing my strep! I really liked it whatever it's name was. It is doing well, just not blooming at the moment.
Thanks to all for all the beautiful posted pictures. I check this thread daily because I learn so much and love to see the pictures.
Be Well and grow well!
Lou
Lou ... looks like you succeeded in starting this thread back in February ... some of us just now found it!
I think Bmedel said your strep is Bristol's Party Girl and she is very pretty! I am just amazed at some of the colors in the blooms of these streps. Gail just sent me two "Remembering John" and "Spiritual Corridor" ... I hope I can do well with them and keep them alive for a long time! I have not had much luck with streps yet. I am trying to find the coolest location in the house by a window where they will get enough light. I figured the ones I had before may have died from the heat from the lights on the plant stands. This time I will try them in natural light from a window and see how they do.
I so love seeing all the beautiful pictures that everyone posts. It's the next best thing to visiting a botanical garden in person! Sooo many really pretty blooms!
Lou, I love that saying you have there: "Be Well and Grow Well" ... and I wish the same for all of you too!
Awww Lin! I love Bubba! Those eyes! He's beautiful!
I'd like to have a Mastiff, too, Brenda. And a Great Dane, Dutch Shepherd, Tervuren, German Shepherd, etc... LOL Basically, if it's a big dog, I'd like to have one! We have two Belgian Malinois, and my daughter has a little Chihuahua mix. I call her a mini pit bull. LOL She looks like a mini pit bull to me!
Brenda, I will send you a leaf of Spin Art. I don't think I have a baby of it. I put down some leaves last fall and several only put up one baby and I think Spin Art was one of those. But anyway, I'll send you a leaf so you can at least get started with it.
That beefsteak begonia looks fabulous! It grows so fast, doesn't it? The rhizome climbs right out of the pot. LOL Mine did the same thing.
As with the Gessies, I have a special love for the mini Orchids. I've got several others that are quite small, just growing on a little hunk of tree fern or wood. I guess I'm just weird, but I don't have to have flowers to be mesmerized by a plant. Fat green roots, tiny little leaves, watching a bud develop day by day. A flower is the bow on top of the package for me. ^_^
And just so I will have given equal time to all, here are all three of our dogs. ^_^
I am moving over to the doggie thread (LOL) because the other thread has more than 206 posts.........
I took closeups of the plants..........I can see that one is that kind of lipstick plant that Lin named...........won't be very pretty blooms but the foliage is nice.
