New MG's for me #5 2008

Joseph, thought this one looked pretty with a little bit of a ruffle.

CMG

It has a nice color and form, Helena!

Wonderful blooms Helena. Impossible to pick a favorite, your's have
all been special.

More amazing blooms, Helena! With so few MGs blooming for me currently, I am soooo enjoying your photos! :-) I could never get enough ... :-)

Thanks Joseph, Jackie and Becky. Now if the storm stays away I'll be getting more blooms soon.

Helena - How close to the Gulf water are you? Stay safe. The plants will have to fend for themselves if that storm comes too close to you! Just get to a safe place. They are predicting a catergory 5 storm, which I think it already is one as it is crossing over Cuba.

Helena, stay safe. You are in our prayers.

Elsa

Ditto to Becky and Elsa - take care of you first. Am hoping both you and some of my family down there come through the storm safe.

Looks like I'm not the only one bringing up the flower caboose, here. Until (or if - critters/deer) our MGs bloom, I've been enjoying yours so much.

Karen

Thank you Becky, Elsa and Karen for your conserns. We are doing fine, getting a bit of wind and rain. I think the worse is over even my mg's got to bloom this morning.

A little rain didn't hurt them in the begining.

And a little more.

Other hide under leaves. I'm really glad that it's almost over & I'm looking forward to getting more blooms soon.

I am so glad to hear you are fine! Having never experienced any of the forces of nature, I can't even begin to think what it must be like to be caught up in what we have seen on TV.

Elsa

Helena, they're all lovely, but this one is breathtaking.

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Thanks Elsa & Jackie.

I have a few new blooms this morning.

Brazilian MG.

A new bloom not sure from where. All this blooms seem to be a little imperfect hopefully it they will get better as the plant matures.

This one is from Onalees mix large form blooms.

It's prettier seeing in person, don't think my camera captured the light blue rays and the bloom is imperfect too.

Another from Onalee mix. Don't know if the rains caused blooms to be damaged.

Maybe something in the atmosphere is causing some of this.

CMG

And this one too growing with blizzard.

Helena, The big, bold, deep blue from Onalee looks like Berlin Blue.
Regardless, it's a beauty.

Helena - Love those deep colors! Looks like satin! I hope you didn't get any flooding. Is the rain finally letting up or is the storm still sitting on top of you? I'd heard there have been a number of tornadoes sighted in the storm areas. Stay safe.

Thanks Jackie and Becky. I was hoping it wasn't Berlin Blue but it was really pretty. Hope the blooms get better too.

Becky, Gautier fared pretty well. There was some flooding in the lower areas but not around my house. I do live maybe have a mile from the gulf 10-15 min walk. We got 2-3 days of rain, before & after the storm.

I hope you don't get any of those storm either. It gets kind of hard to take. Stay safe too.

This is the first bloom on this vine that is growing with a few other pink & fuchsia vines.

Another bloom from the same pot of vines from last years seeds.

Growing in the same big pot, this bloom. Sorry it's a repeat. Maybe in a couple of days there'll be new blooms.

I liked the scalloped edge on the last flower, Helena, very nice one!

Joseph

I like the scalloped edge too and with the white border, it really stands out.

Helena -

Asuka possibly...
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This one
http://pics.davesgarden.com/pics/helenahkh_1220448678_511.jpg
is an excellent example of

You no Tsuki
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Helena,please enter your photo into the PlantFiles...

TTY,...

Ron

Thanks Jackie & Joseph. I like that scalloped bloom too!

Ron I sent you a D-mail. Thanks for the info.

A much better bloom from this one today.

And another from the same vine!

Also from Onalees mix large blooms this new bloom today. Don't know why my camera makes them look like shimmering, maybe reflection of the sun? The edges looked a bit of lavender gray.

Helena - These are beautiful!!!! What is the name? I may have missed it somewhere in your posts. Are the leaves variegated. (Forgive me if I am asking the same questions again.)

Thanks Becky. I got 2 packages. 1 said JMG Seeds Giant Bloom Mixture, the other said JMG Seeds Shibori Asagao LG Bloom MX.
I forgot to look to see if the leaves are variegated but I think most are. Not sure but I think I only sowed 5 seeds from each. That's why I don't know their names but am hoping for ID's.

I hope you get lots of seeds from that one! I love it! Please keep me in mind for some if you do. I am really starting to love those particular blues. Not too dark and not too light of a blue, but just really attractive ... almost sky blue blooms! And the stripes are really the icing on the cake for that one!

I hope you are all prepared for Hanna. You will get some gusts. Hopely the eye and storm wall will hit you from the east side of the storm. Less chance of tornadoes. I am thinking of you and praying that you (& your family) and your garden beds and plants weather the storm just fine! It's probably only going to be a category 1, so that isn't too bad. I'll take a category 1 any day over a much stronger hurricane! :-) Hang in there! Let us know as soon as you can how you are doing afterwards! Hang tight!

Becky, it will be easier to get seeds from the new plants since I'm only growing one of each and separate either in pots or in the ground. I''ll save you some seeds too.

I haven't watched the news lately about Hanna but if I have to my young plants in pots will be coming inside the house & bigger pots into the shed. Hopefully it won't be a bad storm.

Too many blooms today didn't look good for pictures.



This message was edited Sep 6, 2008 8:33 AM

3-7 inches of rain today predicted for Wilmington, with 35-40 mph winds gusting to 50+. Whee!

Joseph - Ya gotta stand out on your porch briefly (and safely) to experience this force of nature! I love the wind and the rain, so I am living in the right state! LOL!

Helena - I don't think you are going to get much but possibly some rain from Hanna. Maybe not even that. :-) I don't know why ... I was thinking you were in NC when I wrote the above post. You'd think I would've look at your location before I wrote that ... Ha,ha! I hope I didn't alarm you! LOL! The crazy weather forecasters are predicting that Ike might go into the Gulf. I don't believe their forecasts until I see the storm actually moving there beyond any doubt. Hurricanes are unpredictable and can do some very interesting paths, so I am one of those folks that say ... let's wait and see what the storm is really going to do. And I am prepared as best as you can for such weather conditions. I'm hoping it will die down once it hits some of the Atlantic Islands. Though I sure don't wish it on them!

Thanks for the offer of seeds! I look forward to growing them next year! :-)

Blooms from today have the wrong date, will reset later.

Another light & dark blue.