August flowers of the day.

[helixturnhelix]

I am hoping for a good bloom season too, hopefully it blooms well getting overcast western exposure light. 

Dave after seeing how beautiful your Cherry Appaloosa bush was, there is no doubt in my mind that you can grow DB and have a bush that blows our minds

Charlie,  I am really really happy that you stuck that one.  Does it have a name yet?  Cuz I have a few in mind

[Charlie]

Kristin, Voodoo Magic is one of the best for branching out with lots of side branches and, since each stem can bloom it also makes a lot of flowers!

Chris, CG x CDLC is just a number so far. Name suggestions are welcome. When we think of a potential name the first thing we do is check the 2 databases of existing names. Sadly, many thousands of names have been used in the past and although many varieties are extinct the names are not supposed to be used again. Something will have to be done about that at some point but for now we try to follow the standard naming practices. The American list of names can be searched at http://www2.lsuagcenter.com/hibiscus/search.aspx and the Australian list of names can be searched at http://www.internationalhibiscussociety.org/SEArchive/SEindex1.php
In theory they should be the same but in practice they only share names every 5-10 years so to be thorough we check out both databases.

Charlie

[Charlie]

Doll, nice to know that Love Story can bloom in the heat of summer. Good color for being in the shade.

Charlie

[Doll]

Charlie, have you had much feedback on Longhorn Pride? I was just wondering how the color might hold up in the heat.

[Charlie]

I haven't heard from anyone about Longhorn Pride but the blooms in the greenhouse (pretty hot in there) fade little or not at all. When Longhorn Pride plants get happy they grow into quite large bushes and make plenty of blooms.

Charlie

[Doll]

Thanks. I might have to get Longhorn Pride. My son goes to the University of Texas and it looks like it would go well next to Hot Pepper.

Georgia's Thunder

Cosmic Gold

[helixturnhelix]

Doll great pics, its looks like my CG is making some buds again

Charlie,

I am really glad I checked the data base because I really liked Midas touch since its such a pure gold and white, but alas the name is taken. 

The other ones I like that are not taken are:

Cosmic rays (since its parent is cosmic gold and because of the pure white rays coming from the center)

Photon (which is the basic unit of light, again because of the white center and rays that radiate into that deep pure yellow.  This might be a bit too nerdy though )

I think a celestial origin is needed to name this CV

[Charlie]

I like Midas Touch, too. Cosmic Rays may be the one for it, though. I like names that give an idea of the parent or parents to help people relate to the new cv better. Thanks for the good suggestions.

Charlie

[helixturnhelix]

I really like Cosmic Rays alot too Charlie.  What a bright beautiful bloom that seedling is

[farmer d]

I know it's late but if anyone has this post tagged for notification here are some of my August blooms.

Better late than never....now that I've figured a way to reduce my 3 mb pics to under 300 kb.  Enjoy

Farmer D

[Charlie]

Darren, I'm liking it that you posted these in the months they were taken. Looking back at some of these topics I realize how good many of the photos and posts are and that it is easy to forget about them. I'm encouraged to go back over all the months since we started!

Charlie