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« Reply #210 on: August 27, 2010, 05:49:53 AM » |
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Aaa, Burnt Saffron! Thanks!
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Doll
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« Reply #211 on: August 27, 2010, 08:07:28 AM » |
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Received my Hot Pepper yesterday and today a bloom.  |
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« Reply #212 on: August 27, 2010, 08:19:37 AM » |
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Free of thrip damage, I'm glad to see. Hot Pepper, an Australian variety, should be a good bloomer even in your heat. We shall see.
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« Reply #213 on: August 27, 2010, 08:46:57 AM » |
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Cosmic Gold is one of many varieties that will be available at the HVH Open House tomorrow, Saturday. This variety is an excellent bloomer in our conditions, and the flowers are usually 8 inch, heavy textured, and ruffled and tufted. After we take inventory on Sunday the web site will be updated again and hopefully there will be a lot of good varieties in several sizes available.
See some of you manana!
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« Reply #214 on: August 27, 2010, 08:54:02 AM » |
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Great looking HM plant, what size pot did you get in the spring?
Charlie,
A bit of disappointing news Cindy's Heart is already closed, so the flower only lasted one day. My conditions are really harsh, because of the high UV exposure here, the flowers burn after being outside, in full sun, for just a few hours. The only plant that I have had multiiple day flowers on outside was Saffron. Burnt Saffron did just that, burnt, just like its papa Black Dragon. I also had a bonnie lass that bloomed a few days, but it was overcast those days. Sigh...
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Pachrian
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« Reply #215 on: August 27, 2010, 10:20:08 AM » |
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Creole Lady, front and back, and P's Purple
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Pachrian
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« Reply #216 on: August 27, 2010, 01:32:55 PM » |
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The same CL bloom, about 3 hours later
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« Reply #217 on: August 27, 2010, 04:15:06 PM » |
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I have creole lady also...she is so pretty ..even when she fades...no blooms on mine right now...just trying to get them all through this heatwave...yesterday it was 107  ...today cooler though 96..tomorrow even cooler.thank goodness  ...and creole lady does not like the heat...lynette |
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Doll
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« Reply #218 on: August 28, 2010, 11:55:09 AM » |
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A Cosmic Gold I just received on Thursday bloomed today. I had to pic the bloom and set it on top of another plant to take the pic because it was pointing down.  |
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« Reply #219 on: August 29, 2010, 09:30:46 AM » |
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That Creole Lady can sure make some luminescent colors!
Doll, it's always been considered "fair game" to pick hibiscus flowers and place them on bushes where it is easier to photograph them. You won't see many Cosmic Gold blooms facing downward, it almost always holds them up so they can be easily seen.
There's been some blooms in the greenhouse this week that I have not taken photos of in awhile. Nice to have the warm weather back in our area. The varieties in these photos are:
Antique Lilac - a double with unusual colors that some are crazy about (like my wife)
Navajo Mountain - a nice brown with warm orange tones
Party Girl - a very good bloomer, often multiples per day
Blushing Maiden - very pretty in a softer palette
Snowstorm - excellent, well formed "blue" flower shot through with white flakes
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« Reply #220 on: August 29, 2010, 10:08:43 AM » |
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A nice Georgia's Thunder  |
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« Reply #221 on: August 29, 2010, 10:54:14 AM » |
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Charlie, That Navajo Mountain is spectacular!
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Pachrian
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« Reply #222 on: August 29, 2010, 11:17:35 AM » |
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Nice tease with the photos, Charlie  . Snowstorm has been one of my top wish-list cv's for a while and I loooved the bloom at open house. So sad that you didn't have any plants of it available  I was talking to my friend (and Lynette and I talked about it briefly too) yesterday how deceptive photos on the website can be. For example, I never really cared for yellow blooms with a white eye and yet that was the one, among all these other blooms, that stopped me dead in my tracks. I think it was Cashmere Yellow. |
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« Reply #223 on: August 30, 2010, 05:49:05 AM » |
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Charlie, I finally got another bloom on that branch of Rainbow Sherbert that had the strange looking flower that I posted on August 4th. This one is a normal flower so I guess that was a one time thing.
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« Reply #224 on: August 30, 2010, 06:25:18 AM » |
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A recent Cindy's Heart. Blooms continue to be about 6" but are showing more pink and consistently lasting 2 days. High temperatures generally in the mid to upper 80s and very humid. Plant is in the greenhouse. I'm wondering if stress from spider mite and white fly attack may be limiting the bloom time to only 2 days.
Uli, beautiful Creole Lady photos, both bloom forms look great. They seem to age very nicely. I hope Charlie will offer it in a smaller size that I can afford. lol
Doll's photo of Cosmic Gold makes me wish mine would start blooming and Charlie, Navajo Mountain is another one that needs to be put on the wish list. I need to stop looking at everyones great photos, the wish list just keeps growing.
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