Blooms week of June 23rd

I've got a couple pretties to share today :-)

Here's Rum Runner - I know the shot is kinda pointed down, but I thought the colors were prettier in this one than my other shots at a better angle.

Hot Bikini before she got all crispy from the heat.

This is my first "pretty" bloom on Delta Dawn - the two prior blooms were just plain homely!

Cinnamon Girl had six new lovely blooms today - here's two of them.

This is the first time Fall Harvest's colors have been so light. Probably the heat?

The coloration on Butter Cup is beautiful - but, I think all my flowers were afraid to open all the way this morning. Finally, it's cooled back down into the mid-90's, but the plants are still recovering from last week's extreme shock of heat.

Key Largo.

Allure was much lighter in color today too.

I had blooms on Party Hound, Paint Pot, and Jazz too, but the flowers just didn't open enough :-( I'm bummed about Jazz, because I've been waiting and waiting for this one to open. When I first joined DG a couple years ago, one of the first pictures I saw was Jazz, I think (?) taken by Kell, and I wanted it ever since. When Matt had it on his January for sale list, I jumped on it :-)

Have a beautiful, bloom-filled week!

karen

This message was edited Jun 23, 2008 10:01 PM

All gorgeous as usual! I especially like Buttercup--I think I might have that one too, I have a Butter something that I got recently from HVH, probably the same one! And Allure is always one of my fav's.

Oh Liz, I hope you did get Buttercup - that plant is a little bloom machine!!! I'm going to try and go to the HVH open house this weekend - crossing my fingers for a "feel okay" day to sneak out of the bubble for a while ;-) Shhhhhhh, don't tell my Doctors...

Your secret is safe with me! I hope you're able to find yourself some goodies! Whenever I do get in a trip to SoCal I'm definitely going to try and do it around a weekend when they're having an open house, that's definitely something I'd love to go to!

Really nice blooms. Rum Runner and Cinnamon Girl are my favorites now. You know, my favorites change almost daily.

Hi Karen,
All are beautiful! Hard to pick a favorite when there are so many to choose from. I did take the time for a few pics today.

First up is "Midnight Madness"

5th Dimension

6th Dimension

Voodoo Magic

Molten Lava trying to open

Smokey Mountain

Nightmare

Eye Shadow

Yoda

Culture Shock

Pride of Acadiana

Mutant

Sorry I haven't been on. Been busy redoing patio area.

Karen,
I'm loving your rum runner and cinnamon girls. Both outstanding.
Robert,
Midnight Madness is "to die for"! My Nightmare has never looked so pretty as yours. What's your secret?

I have a few blooms from this past week. First one: Chocolate High

Crazy Horse being eaten by a darned caterpillar! Funny how it made it's designs to blend holes into the flower. Arg!!!

Curly Top

An unusual DaVinci

Fall Harvest in Florida

Fire & Ice

Hot Ross

Mon Cher

Nightfire

Silver Memories

Snow Queen

Stolen Kiss

Susan Schlueter

Dragons Lair

Tomahawk

last for today, Wild at Heart