I included some photos in today's article, http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/886/, but I know some of you make a point of collecting African violets with green in their blooms.
This is the day to show them off!
Let's see some photos of lovely GREEN African violets!
:-)
Here's Optimara Little Crystal, not a speck of green in her blooms but I love the bright green foliage, and of course the pot seemed appropriate...
Really cute AV and nice pot she is in. I don't have one blooming AV and haven't had for a while.
Mine were looking pretty sad over the winter also, but I've got a few flowering now... It doesn't have to be one that's blooming today! :-)
I've never really noticed much green in 'Cloud Puff' (although it's mentioned in the description), but you can see some green on the buds in this photo.
SO pretty!! Happy St. Patrick's Day!
What a great image! That pup of yours is just precious.
Happy St. Pat's!
I don't have any green AV's but happy Saint Patty's Day to you all.
Well, I am really lateon this thread, but here is a green violet that is on its last leg...it is literally about to fall off, but it is a neat and unusual "green violet"
HARMONY'S FRILLY DEALY
That's a really gorgeous green edge on that bloom -- wow!
I'm not sure, but looking at the center of that flower I wonder if you've got a seedpod or two forming... ? If so, that would be a fun one to grow out!
I don't now what the seeds look like, but the new flowers coming up(they should be up and blooming in a few more days) have those same sort of globs in the middle.
That picture is of a very old bloom. A newer bloom is pure white with lime green edging(with none of that pinky~brown color).
I guess it is possible they are seeds, since it very well could have been pollinated at the nursery. I will set those on the soil, just in case.
Thanks for pointing that out
Just don't pick the flower off... If there's a seed pod, you'll see it after the bloom drops off. That bloom just looked a little "different" to me in the center, but since I don't think I've ever had a seed pod on mine, I don't really know. :-)
I really love the frilly dilly.
oops...:0(
The flower has already been pricked off. :0(
Don't worry... try it with another one, if you're curious! You could probably play "bee" and hand pollinate the blooms, even.
it was in a nursery with a lot of really neat african violets,so if it were crossed, it could have been special. ...I probably just made a real boo-boo by snipping that off...lol
*sigh
