May Flower Photos of the Day

[Nievesgirl]

My HC is not blooming yet  I love that color Chris !

Here is a DARK and big midnightflyer

[Pachrian]

I love that Midnight Flyer, it's beautiful!

My Bridal Path opened with triplets today, quite an attention-getter in my yard on this overcast day

[Pachrian]

My triplets had a little visitor (a female Allen's Hummingbird) today. I was surprised she actually sat down to feed. Fortunately my camera was nearby:

[Charlie]

Uli - WOW! These are great!!!  I love watching the hummingbirds dart in and out of the hibiscus flowers, but photographing them is extra special. 3 Bridal Path flowers is pretty special, too. As it gets warmer the Bridal Path flowers will grow toward 10 inch size, a little too cold for that now but soon enough...

Thanks for sharing these photos.

Charlie

[helixturnhelix]

Pretty awesome!

[Charlie]

Kerry, I missed that Midnight Flyer photo somehow. You can almost make out the sheen on the surface of the bloom which is a feature of MidFlyer I like a lot.

Charlie

[roadrunner]

Uli, incredible photos of the hummer and Bridal Path triplets.

dave

[Darkhorse]

So, I just pulled this plant out of the box at about midnight last night, and voila!  Heavy Metal is AMAZING!  My camera couldn't pick up the color well enough, but the bloom is incredibly vibrant.  The petals are a little bruised from shipping and the bloom didn't quite open all the way, but there are tons more buds on this plant.

I'm thrilled... I've wanted this cv for the past year and a half and it has eluded me. 

[Charlie]

I'm surprised to see those white spots around the edge of Heavy Metal so early in the season. They are a hot weather feature of the bloom and will no doubt increase as your weather warms up even more. Heavy Metal is not a huge flower but the bright intensity of the flowers are very eye catching. It's also colorfast which is surprising since one of the parents is Fifth Dimension.

Charlie

[Charlie]

Well, it looks like the 2 gallon section of our greenhouse has finally come into bloom. We mostly have some of our tried and true like High Voltage and Belle du Jour plus several of the Dupont varieties that we grow to full size in the 2 gallon pots.

Today's tastiest treat from the 2 gallon area is Black Dream, first flowers of this one that I have seen in real life. It is more or less the red equivalent of Burnt Saffron, both shading to black toward the center of the bloom. Black Dream is not as dramatic as parent Black Dragon can be, but is a good sized flower at 8 inches and the red is dark and does shade toward black. It does not have as much white swirling as Black Dragon and both have less than Dragon's Breath, but the color is still quite impressive. The big news with Black Dream is that the bush is much, much better than Black Dragon.

We also have some Acadian Springs in full bloom now, huge flowers on pretty good bushes. Magic Moments, Eye of Kali, and others as well. There are about a dozen varieties in the 2 gallon size now in bud and bloom, all with big full bushes, that Cindy is putting in the online store today and tomorrow. Those include Black Dreams, still quite a rare variety in these parts.

Photos of Black Dream flower and bush are below. Also some Acadian Springs photos of flowering bushes that were too good to pass up this morning.

Hope everybody is having a very pleasant weekend break!

Charlie

[helixturnhelix]

Very nice flower!  I really like your Heavy Metal, Jordan. 

Black dream looks nice, makes me miss my black dragon

[Darkhorse]

Oh!  I had a Black Dream last year.  Good to see more photos of it.  It was my guinea pig in a pruning experiment and in learning how to give a mite bath.  Needless to say it very quickly kicked the bucket.  Or maybe it just comitted suicide.  lol


I was thinking about picking up a Stolen Kiss, but it would have to be smaller.  What does Eye of Kali look like, Charlie? 

Thanks Chris!  About the Heavy Metal flower... it wasn't warm here at the time it bloomed, either.  Maybe the box got warm in the UPS truck or something.  I wonder if that would cause the spotting so late in the bud's development.  Two more buds will open in the next few days on HM, too.  Monday/Tuesday is my weekend so perfect timing!

[motherof4]

charlie...will the 2 gallon selection you mentoned be available at your open house in june??

[Charlie]

Yes, the 2 gallons will be at the June Open House, minus any varieties that sell out in the meantime. We have quite a few of most of these so I expect they will still be available but sometimes we are surprised.

Thanks for asking,

Charlie

[Darkhorse]

Heavy Metal delighted me again this morning with twins!  I LOVE this cv!

The first photo was the blooms opening.  The flowers face opposite each other, so I couldn't really get both of them together.  The next photo shows a close up of the first flower-- you can really see the metallic sheen of this cv in this picture.  The next photo is the 2nd bloom, still opening.  A little splotching on this one too!