Aw.........Jan, how cute are you and your sisters!!!!!!! So glad you are still having fun. Thanks for sharing........
Nancy, I got bored and the batteries were down on my camera so I started posting pics from a file I found from April (LOL)
July Blooms, Part 3
Wow Jan, that is cool car!!! I would love to have something like that to parade around Atlanta!
Hi girls,
lovely lovely flowers!
Gail, Your photo's are really awesome! Beautiful plants! I don't care how old the photo's are, they are just as gorgeous the second or third time around. I could sit and scroll through them all day!
Jan: Sounds like you and your Sis had a fabulous time! Wow! Neat car! Did you win it? Hope your sister had some luck at the slot machines! I love slot machines ... and they like to take and keep all my coins!
Great pictures Jan! Looks like fun!
I have to give credit for the following blooms to Dave's Violets who sold them to me and to mrs.bonnie for one of her crosses in which she sent me seed, Rain for a cutting of Martha Lemke now blooming and Jan for Sky High Seeds.
Sinningia Colorado Sunset from Dave's Violets
Should have taken it out from under the lights. This HCY's Lady Lady came from Dave back the end of March.
I love Dale Marten's Heartland Double Dilly (from Dave)
Dave also sent Dale Marten's Sinningia Los Angeles
I just am amazed that Rain can cram that many cuttings in one box. This is Martha Lemke already blooming.
Dave's own Ozark Fireworks is still blooming.
I just love Dave's Ozark Pink Kittens
Ozark Red Lightening is bright!
I never get tired of Yes by Belisle's but I bought it from David Harris
This is mrsbonnie's seed of Caitland (sp?) x Ozark Fireworks. She is pretty , Bonnie
David Harris's Ozark First Born
mrsbonnie, Jan or anyone, I lost the tag on this one........she needs her rightful name
Good ole standbye......Mackenzie
Hi girls!
Well my dollar didn't win that cool car (I'm not a gambler),to bad I would have looked good driving it...LOL..So I sat around people watching till my sister was done playing the machines.
We are having fun,Sister beth took my car this morning to meet up with her friends in Fla,there going to the beach then dinner, shes staying overnight then back to my house something tommorow afternoon.So I have the day to rest,all this excitmet as worn me out.LOL.
Gail,your sinningia are beautiful! Sorry I don't know the name of the one that has no name,My sister was so excited when she saw the streps.She said to pass on a huge Thank you to you.
My family can wear me out , too, Jan........even if we are having a blast. Glad you get to rest for one day (LOL).........
I can always send the picture to David Harris and he will know if Bonnie doesn't come along. I don't know where everyone has been yesterday and today???????
Gail your sinns are amazing..love them all..I still get confused by the different sizes..lol..I love my micro minis but what are some ones that are larger than the micro minis yet smallish so they don't take up an entire plant shelf? Shelf space here is getting pretty slim....I understand some of the sinningias can get pretty large?..beautiful blooms!!!
These I posted are all small ones...........quite small..........I have the bigger ones, but you are right. They take up a whole shelf. I have these in 2/12 " rounds and they could be in smaller pots.
My goal this summer and fall is to start all new plants from cuttings so I can share with everyone. I have about 10 cuttings rooting right now, but these I showed just aren't big enough yet to take cuttings.
Let me take a picture of how big they look from further away.
Thanks Gaill..those look great..just look at all those blooms! Amazes me and I can see they don't take up near as much space as I was thinking..I will just need to remember I guess to stick with the smaller growers!
Gail, what sweet blooms and plants, so pretty!
I have decided that I really don't like putting plants on the Marketplace...........is much more fun trading........just sent out 3 boxes...............now it is nap time (LOL)
You will love sinningias......
Oh darn,I liked buying your plants from the marketplace....LOL.
The unknown sinningia growing in the garden bloomed.Naps are a good thing Gail.I just got up from mine.
wow...........look at that! I need to study and find out which ones are hardy. We had this discussion and then I didn't study up at the time.
I keep looking at all the cuttings that you, Rain and Bonnie sent me...........that is better than ordering...........let me take a picture of two trays.........nothing but baby cuttings sent and now I have a wealth of plants. You sent me things that are already out of the tray and growing big...........can't beat that.......
There are episcias, sinningias and even baby tiny streps..........every weird plant you can think of are in these trays or are already out and growing big.
Propagating is just the best of all worlds.
****I love naps but I have to get down before 2 o'clock or I get wound up again..........
This message was edited Jul 14, 2008 3:27 PM
Sorry I've been a little missing in action ladies. I'm here but there is just SO much going on right now.
Our well went dry and we haven't had water since Friday. The bank says 2 WEEKS before we can have access to our home equity money.
Showered in a tupperware bowl this morning. Needless to say, I could use another tupperware treatment right now as I type. It's been So hot here and NO sign of rain. I am literally watching my pots of annuals wither up and turn to dust and there isn't a thing I can do as I have no water to water them :(
Gail, those sinningias are simply amazing! You sure can grow girlfriend! They are all so beautiful!
This is going to be a very hectic week so I don't know how much I will be around but I will try to post as often as I can. I can always try to write from work too :) It's just I can't post pictures from work *lol*
Stinky Kim
Kim, how close is your nearest neighbor? I would hook up hoses to save my plants..........
3 acres away *lol*
They have offered us to take showers there but I'm a little too modest. I won't even go to my Gram's *lol* We'll get through this. Making memories I say *lol*
Too far to run hoses :( Only the toughest survive is my motto now :)
XO
Kim
Hi kim,Sorry to hear about your well
When I was growing up our well went dry every summer.Do you or your hubby have a truck or acsess to a pick-up.My mom went out and bought new plastic garbage cans and we would go to a aunts house to fill them up.
Do you have any of the natural springs around your area?That would be good for your drinking water.cooking water.
Your motto is almost the same as mine."Only the strong survive" LOL.
I can't think of two tougher women than you two! Good for you. At least you have the assurance that you can pull through anything life throws your way. We make our choices and I want to be in the same group as you (but don't think many other people would think I am tough enough to be without water for two weeks) (LOL)
Oh Wow, Kim ... I am so sorry to hear about your situation with the lack of water! We have wells and septic systems here too. We are in a little unincorporated area of the county and just got city water a few months ago! I am so glad. We didn't have to hook up to it but I really wanted it so we went ahead and paid for getting city water. My husband dug the trench and laid the pipes to connect from the street to the house. The city will only bring the water up to your property line and install the meter, you have to pay for that and then pay for a plumber or somebody to do it the rest of the way inside your property. He hired a couple of students to help dig the trench ... worked out great, then he laid the pipe and did the connection himself. So, we sure saved a lot of money. I remember the hurricanes of 2004 (we had 3 canes come through within a 5 week period!) Our power was off for a week, which meant no water because the pumps need electricity to power the wells. We are lucky to have the pool. Lived in a bathing suit for a week ... it was so hot and without electricity it was miserable with no AC in the hottest part of the summer! My DH took a couple of pictures of me shaving my legs in the swimming pool but I would never in a million years, for any amount of money post them the way I looked! We at least had the pool to bathe in! I kept a rack with towels and wash cloth's and a bar of soap right next to the pool. We had bottled water to drink and brush our teeth with.
I don't even want to think of going through that again, for even 2 or 3 days! No fun! We sure spoiled with our electricity, running water and air conditioning! I think if it ever happens again I will take a vacation and go visit my sister in Georgia ... or go stay in a motel somewhere that has electricity! I hope you get a new well dug soon. And, you know we still love ya, stinky or sweet smelling! ^_^
Hi everyone,
sorry to hear that you don't have water, Kim. It never happened to me but I have been living in the US for only 3 years.
I never had any problem with water in England. Too wet, too much rain. the only problem was the fear of having the house flooded.
For anyone's interest, David Harris has shared his mix for growing sinnigias. I copied and pasted it on my notepad.
Re: David's Sinningia potting mix
A part is 5" az. pot this make about 5+ gallon of mix
15 parts Pro Mix "BX"
7-8 parts of Perlite
3 parts Vermiculite
2- 2 1/4" square pot of gypsum
1- 2 1/4" square pot of charcoal
"Gypsum" is a calcium product that can applied to soils to help
remove toxic levels of sodium and
loosen heavy clay soils for better water penetration. Gypsum is
used mainly as an additional
source of calcium for field and pot crops.
Everytime I think I am through with African violets because i can't grow the, I find a few new blooms and perk up!
I got 3 new chimeras and got the tags all mixed up (but I have the tags). When the last one blooms I will be able to tell which name goes with which.
Wrangler's Green Pastures
Another chimera blooming
Wrangler's Ghost Riders
Yesterday's Valentine, a standard trailer
