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helixturnhelix
Seattle, WA

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« Reply #30 on: July 10, 2010, 09:05:35 AM »
Great display Ulli!

A bunch of my friends in Southern California have been complaining about where is summer?!  The weather is really bizarre all over the country, cold and raining in Southern California, Triple digits on the east coast, High nineties in the Pacific Northwest!  Here in Colorado it was the coldest week of July ever recorded, 55 and raining and dipping into the 40's at night.  Good thing its warming up, sunny and mid eighties this weekend.  

I think El Nino may play some role, bringing warmer than average water temps and therefore more tropical storms, but there is something more here.  A sense of foreboding as the weather spirals out of control, hopefully its not too late Sad  
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motherof4

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« Reply #31 on: July 10, 2010, 09:29:14 AM »
It wasn't armstrongs it was another nursery called thompsons...my husband and I were there to buy some rock for our backyard and I wandered to look at there hibiscus...you know being an addict..haha...and there was flash dance Cheesy...oh well it made my day ..being when I saw it on hvh it was already snatced up...lynette...ps.... last year I went to armstongs...and there hibiscus did look terrible...all eaten up by something
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Charlie
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« Reply #32 on: July 10, 2010, 09:41:52 AM »
Well, if it turns out to be a real Flash Dancer, that nursery probably bought it from Armstrong Growers (wholesale only, no public outlet except the stores they supply). They supply the Armstrong Garden Centers but also other independent nurseries in California and out of state buy from them, too. They have a big operation in Oceanside with close to 100 acres of all sorts of plants growing. It's also possible that some other grower acquired a Flash Dancer and managed to propagate it and is selling them but this is the first I have heard of it. Unless a hybridizer patents a new variety, other growers can also propagate and grow it for sale. 

I'm glad you found it - it's really pretty! One guy in TX bought one from us earlier this year and wrote to say it had become his favorite flower this summer.

Charlie
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motherof4

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« Reply #33 on: July 10, 2010, 10:04:32 AM »
ya I had seen it on daves garden...and it named you as the hybrinizer...and I thought it was really pretty....so when I seen it on your store and then gone ..I was disapointed...so I was very excited to find it
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Charlie
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« Reply #34 on: July 10, 2010, 04:35:12 PM »
Does the one you got have buds yet? Once it starts blooming you should get a lot of flowers!

Charlie
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motherof4

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« Reply #35 on: July 10, 2010, 05:09:24 PM »
YES IT HAS QUITE A FEW...IT WAS A NICE FULL BUSH
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helixturnhelix
Seattle, WA

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« Reply #36 on: August 01, 2010, 04:00:10 PM »
Geronimo and Snowy Sky this time, damage wasnt too bad Tongue 
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