Well, you should get a discount rate for booking in advance, right? LOL!! ^_^
Seriously, I'd really like to meet everyone on the forum!
May Flowers
Everyones pictures are so pretty... Nic, you grow girl and I am so happy for you in all your wins..... My computer went crazy last week and I really did not have the money to put in shop and I still don't know what the heck was wrong with it but it came down to reformatting the hard drive... I lost all of my pictures and learned a very good thing as to not hold them on my puter like I have been... I lost my GKs birthdays,xmas,easter... I was heart broken over this... I did cry but what are you going to do??? So I will now download my pictures on to disc's more often.....
Ok have to go find some of my programs I use on the web... Once again Great Jobs ladies on growing...
Hugs,
Susan
Oh Susan,what a shame!! I guess I should back up my pictures more often too.Hopefully someone might have extra copies.
Nichole,if I ever do get there I will look you up.
Lynn
Apache Primrose
E. Pink Haga.
Thanks,Tommie!
Can anyone who had my real email please email me so I can put you all in the book please... Thank you....
Sue
Pretty, Dimmer! How do you like your new house?
ibrabec...lovely plants. Pink blossoms and variegated foliage I love.
Susan,
I will email you later tonight!
GL,That picture really doesn't do the plant justice.It has green,pink and white foliage.The blooms are pink with more of a rose edge.
violet...Ramblin' Dots...first blooms for this trailer. I've grown it in the past years ago and have always liked it.
ibrabec...you and I would get along great as I love variegated violets.
No flowers now but pretty leaves on Wrangler's Swinging Blues grown from a leaf.
Wrangler's Swinging Blues (W. Smith) Double blue frilled/variable green edge. Variegated pink, quilted. Standard
Cool! I just got a baby plug of Ramblin dots and now I know what it will look like when it grows up! Very pretty!
The pink variegation on the violet is gorgeous!
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Seems I'm all about foliage today...sorry no blooms.
Champagne Pink (7945) 10/08/1993 (S. Sorano) Double light pink pansy. Crown variegated green, white and pink, plain, ovate. Semiminiature trailer
Thanks, phoebesviolets. You will like it. I grew RD from a leaf. Easy growing and shapes well. Glad to have it back again to enjoy.
hmmm love trailers,anyone got stormy trail?just lost mine,but all in all the violetts are liking being on the grid
JIM
GL,
Ramblin Dots is a cutie! I have a trailer that looks just like Champagne Pink (I haven't seen any blooms yet),but the foliage is very white and pink with just a little green.It's a very vigorous grower and probably a semi.Susan sent it to me,but we were not sure of it's name.It should set buds before long.
Yes,I think you,I and Phoebe would get along fine with violets ^_^.
Actually my favorite colors are oranges,corals,peaches,reds and yellows and very dark foliage,but I can't seem to resist some of those pinks and purples...LOL.
Lynn
Sorry Jim,I don't have that one.
Gracious, y'all are killing me with those gorgeous variegated violets! I LOVE variegated foliage! I don't know when or if I will ever get back into growing AV's, but I keep looking at pictures of my stands from two years ago and sometimes think I should make a list ... then I realize I just don't have the time and patience right now, LOL. I have a couple of Episcia's that I found out in my Florida room ... thought they were dead but they've re-sprouted. No labels anymore so I'm not sure which ones they are, they are looking pretty good so maybe I will get blooms in time. I still have Chirita's and some of them need re-potting desperately. One in particular has a very long neck. The leaves look pretty ratty on Chirita 'Dreamtime' but it has two buds. This will be a first bloom for me on that one. I got it in a trade with KimsKreations early last year. One of the other Chirita's has a bud too but I don't remember which one it is and am too lazy to go look, LOL.
Well, if we're talking variegated violets, here is the one plant I bought at the show/sale Saturday . . .
Shirl's Grape Lollipop
Shirl's Grape Lollipop (9155) 12/24/2002 (S. Sanders) Single grape sticktite pansy. Variegated dark green and pink, plain. Semiminiature (TX Hyb)
Love it! Are the blooms gonna be purple like a Grape Lollipop? ^_^ Yep ... I had to go to the AVSA site and check! Purple blooms.
Found another nice one ... Check out Shirl's Grape Ice! Beautiful! http://www.avsa.org/Photographs/Shirl'sGrapeIceLrg.jpg#http://../Photographs/Shirl'sGrapeIceLrg.jpg%23
No, I don't have Stormy Trail...sorry, Jim. Since I can't grow everything ;( I am going to stick with my favs the variegated ones.
Laughing at you, ibrabec! I think it would be easier for you to say you like them all ^_^. Just teasing you. I do agree though that I like the very dark red reverse leaves, glossy is preferred and of course variegated is most liked by me as I can enjoy the plant all of the time. Looking forward to your mystery violet.
Lin, all you have to say if and when you are ready to start growing again. I can understand with your lovely Florida climate wanting to be outdoors tending to all the beautiful plants you have outside.
Nichole.............who in Texas hybridized that plant? I will look at first class under the Shirls and see what i can find.
Shirley was a member of my club before I joined. She passed away. This is one of the plants she hybridized. I got two other Shirl plants this weekend . . . I'll have to go see which ones.
I love that violet, syrumani.
That's a real purty violet Syru!
What a great thread this is...I missed it before for some reason. Love all the pictures of your show, Syrumani! Congratulations :)
I'm crazy about those pink and white variegated violets! I've got a couple leaves coming this week of Handmade, Flashy Angel, DECELLE'S ARCTICA (just white and green leaves), Apache Daydream and Champagne Halo.
NUMMY!!
I think my favorite violets are trailers,wasps,mosiac ,chimeras but maybe not in that order,ive got a really neat witch doctor that i adore,
its really looking good since ive transplanted it and put it on wicking and matting,ive got a few others too,
JIM
GL--I just found Champagne Pink in the new LLG catalog--Hmmmm.......
Just wondering--what do you plant you trailers in? I've got several that are about to outgrow their Solo cups and I know they prefer shallow containers--but don't have anything like that, I think.
Chirita 'Dreamtime' with ratty leaves
Close up of bloom on Dreamtime
I remember Dreamtime and love her!
Ummm....can I use your pool? Pleeeeze?
(lol)
LOL, Someone should use it! I'm not much of a swimmer and it doesn't get used much anymore. My nieces and nephews swam all the time when they were young and my Mom loved it when she came to visit. Now all the kids are grown and gone. I think I went in once last year and we went swimming a lot after the 2004 Hurricanes when we were without power for a week! No air conditioning and it was so hot and humid, the pool was a relief! At that time I called it my bathtub. ^_^ My husband took pictures of me in my bathing suit, sitting on the top step of the pool, shaving my legs! I hope all those pic's have been destroyed!
The area surrounding the pool I call my playground!
The other end of the pool area that is also part of my playground
OOOH,can I come over and play LOL? It looks like a little slice of heaven.
OK,GL,go ahead and laugh ^_^. I confess I am a hopeless plant junkie and I am not interested in kicking the habit!!
Syru,That's a very pretty violet!!
Gotta go take a picture of the baby that looks like Champagne Pink.
Lynn
I am looking forward to blooms on it! I think it looks like a semi mini.
I love variegation in any plant! That is nice, Lynn.
Here is a new bloom from some hybridizing of Sherry Burtchette in Bonnie's av club............so glad Bonnie offered these on DG
This is King Henry!!! CAn't wait for the others to bloom again.....
Lots of wonderful pictures to see today, getting caught up.
Gail,
That's a really nice Strep.I have been looking on the marketplace,but I must be looking under the wrong section??
Lynn
Lynn - when you go to the Marketplace, just type in Strep in the search box, and the results will pop up . . . ^_^
There was only one result when I did that, and here is the link: http://davesgarden.com/products/market/view/6624/
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Thanks,Syru!! I found only that one listing also,but several of them I already have.Although I don't have babies yet,I have 50 some different cultivars of leaves down,so it's hard to know what I will have in another month.So for right now I am trying to find leaves or babies that I know I don't have.I also have many Episcia stolons that are rooting or rooted,as well as AV leaves,so until I see what they do I am hesitant to order the same ones!
Lynn