Gessie blooms #6 for February

Purple Panda

Yeah, I looked up Moonlight and just edited that out of my post. LOL They do look similar in pictures. I have Goose Egg and love it. ^_^

Ruffled Rose

Will always have at least one Salmon Sunset

Can't remember but she is either Semi Road or Semi Road Map (Jim, where are you? LOL)

Shenendoah Sugar Plum

Shenendoah Summer (very hot pink)

Spin Art has to be the easiest leaf to start.

Texas Hot Chili

New favorite bloom..........Upfield's Coral Dream..........a very intense coral color.....still a baby....

Look at Zoe starting to open with her one single leaf!

Got to get to work..............thanks

Upfield's Coral Dream is just beautiful, Gail! Love that white in the throat!

Isn't she a beauty............now I really have to go to work.......but love seeing you again, Rain!

Rain and Gail,what lovely pictures.That Codonatanthus is so sweet.And Branwen,and Cloud Nine,and Showstopper,and Purple Panda, and,and and...LOL

Lynn

Hi Raingazer! How wonderful to see you posting again...such beautiful flowers one after the other. I have thought of you so often. So glad your husband is back to health.

Gail...splendid as always. I can't wait for you to list on the marketplace.

What are you showing off, Goldleaf? She is wonderful!!

Rain, I'm so impressed that you have x codanthes Vista blooming. Mine just sits here happy doing nothing under the lights.

***edited to say that your leaves look thicker than mine. Kimscreations sent her from a cutting almost two years ago and said that was her name?????

This message was edited Feb 24, 2009 2:49 PM

Hi All;
Just got back from vacation, had a wonderful time, of course i met linda from daytona beach fl. we had a nice lunch & a wonderful visit,what a sweetheart she is. Was so nice to be able to meet someone from the group that i talk to.My sister took pictures on her camera, so i am waiting so i can post them. My dh took real good care of my plants & really did a good job.thank goodness.lolI did get to go to a flea market where they were selling orchids for 2.00 ea. i could not believe my eyes, all in bloom to.I did buy a few & the had to much stuff & not enough room to bring them back home. however i cna have my sister mail them to me.I bought one for linda & believe she posted a picture somewhere on here,any way it's so nice to go on vacation, but it's great to be home too.
mrsbonnie

Glad you are back home and had a great time, Bonnie!

welcome home Bonnie!!

Welcome back Bonnie!
Lynn

MrsBonnie: What is a vacation? I'm 63 and never had this what you call a vacation. :-(

believe me, you should try it. It's wonderful. I spent 7 days with my sister & her family in florida.was great.
mrsbonnie

I am verrrry excited over my left over orchid at the grocery store with no blooms last summer.

Also have a begonia blooming pale pink I want to share.

such a deal,,lol really pretty ^ _ ^
bonnie

oops, did not get the smiley face.lol

Welcome home Bonnie! Glad to have you back in the garden! It sure was great meeting you for lunch last week. It's so much fun finally getting to meet another DG'er in person ... sure wish some of us lived closer and could get together often. I adore the orchid you gave me, it is just the prettiest color! I sure hope to get to that flea market sometime soon. It is the one my neighbors told me about! They said his plants are so healthy and so reasonably priced! Wow! It is amazing to find an orchid for $2, I've never seen one for less than $15, anywhere! hmm .... I think I'm going to have to get some spring cleaning done and make space for a few more, LOL.

Hi, Gessie. I too want a begonia. I don't know a lot but I want them for the foliage, and small size. :-)

Gail, the photo show was amazing!!!

mortswife,
Maybe you are thinking of rex begonias as they tend to be smaller. I can't grow them because of our heat. Cane begonias do great in the fall and early spring here. I haven't posted any of the blooms yet........waiting until they are covered in blooms. I have to cut all my canes back to the base each winter so I can make room for them on the front porch during the winter. They can get humongous .

Here are a few pictures I took of the last Seguin trip.......of begonias

Another hanging basket of begonias. She blooms white when she blooms.

This is a small cane begonia.........they will get, in a pot on the ground, over 6 feet tall at least.

Hey Mortswife-- touch base with me in spring-- I have over 100 begonia varieties^_^ I have the B. bunchii in Gails photo too--also have this great mini--name is bigger than it is: Begonia bowerae nigramarga.

Hey Gran. I sure will. I even printed the post so I wouldn't forget [fibrofog, you know].

Oh, RainGazer, your AV's are going great!

Gail - as usual, your blooms are beautiful!

My plants are enduring so much neglect this week, I could almost cry.



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Gran, I forgot you are the begonia queen! They had so many beautiful begonias in Seguin.

Hey mortswife...I got fibro fog, too :) Fibromites unite! LOL Lots of good healing in gessies, gardening and all things green, don't you think?

Jacki

You got that right, Jacki. It's the one thing I enjoy doing that doesn't require a whole lot of thinking; assuming I never drop the plants. I make plenty of mess with potting soil!
Several days ago I turned around and fell into the corner of the cupboard. I have a dandy bruise right on the shoulder joint. Sound familiar?
We will not be defeated, right?

There really is a large group of people on the AV forum with fibromyalga (sp?). I only know one friend who is an acquaintance with this horrible disease. I agree with you that gardening and all things green help us all through any ailment.

Oh yeah, that sounds very familiar! Actually the way I lost virtually all of my av's was because of a wicked flare that just seemed to go on and on... I just couldn't keep up.

Used to be a lot of people with chronic health conditions were on DG's. I'm sure there still is. Growing flowers is such a joy and it can be as simple or as complicated (or as obsessive!) and you make it. A great antidote to feeling crappy. :) I always feel better with my hands in dirt and my eyes on a flower!