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« Reply #165 on: July 27, 2011, 01:14:31 PM » |
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Some bush pics...left to rt
Bridal Path, Flickering Flame, Chariots of Fire (4'2"), Bonnie Lass, Rainbow Sherbet, Scarlet Beauty
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« Reply #166 on: July 27, 2011, 01:16:27 PM » |
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more bush pics...left to rt
Bon Temps, Apricot Cookie (hiding in the shadow), Black Dream (4' tall), Palm Springs
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« Reply #167 on: July 27, 2011, 01:18:56 PM » |
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more bush pics...Left to rt
Acapulco Gold (4'7"), High Voltage, Venetian Brick, All That Jazz, Hot Pepper, Valentines Day, Vin Beaujolais, Rise & Shine (covered by my Plumeria Tree).
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farmer d
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« Reply #168 on: July 27, 2011, 01:19:43 PM » |
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more bushes...SP is the smaller
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farmer d
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« Reply #169 on: July 27, 2011, 01:21:07 PM » |
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one last pic...
foreground is The Path lft of my Lime Tree, tall lanky one behind is Some Like it Hot and to it's rt is Electric Orange
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« Reply #170 on: July 27, 2011, 06:17:59 PM » |
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wow everyone great blooms... kristen your garden is really going now...really nice....... and darren ..always awsome blooms...really liked the shots of your garden...here are some of my blooms..lynette
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« Reply #171 on: July 27, 2011, 06:19:52 PM » |
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a few more...
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« Reply #172 on: July 27, 2011, 06:22:03 PM » |
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and one more
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« Reply #173 on: July 27, 2011, 08:31:34 PM » |
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Thanks Lynette and Darren! D, Love the bush shots. Great idea. I think it is cool to see what everyone else gets for a bush with some of the same cv's I have, to compare.
Lynette, I just got my first Voodoo Queen bloom, it was about 7". Your photos are great.
Darren, love The Path. I love seeing your photos of it. I have a really crappy grafted plant of it and it has always struggled (obviously not from Charlie). I am seeing some buds on it, but they are taking forever!
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-Kristen
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Charlie
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« Reply #174 on: July 28, 2011, 06:06:39 AM » |
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Super bush photos, Darren. It looks like more varieties are filling in nicely for you. Your goal of having all big full bushes is admirable though hard to achieve outside the tropics. It's a big help to me to see which ones do well.
I agree that your Hot Pepper looks a little too different for conditions to explain it. But if not Hot Pepper, than what is it? I still think it probably is Hot Pepper but wish I had another one to send to you to compare it with. Unfortunately it is out of stock now. There will be quite a few offspring of Hot Pepper blooming for the first time this summer and next. I'm hoping for the same good bush qualities with bigger flowers in other colors.
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« Reply #175 on: July 28, 2011, 09:03:08 AM » |
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Lynette, I love your Firestorm bloom.
Cindy's Heart and Voodoo Queen
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I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.
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farmer d
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« Reply #176 on: July 28, 2011, 11:45:30 AM » |
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Super bush photos, Darren. It looks like more varieties are filling in nicely for you. Your goal of having all big full bushes is admirable though hard to achieve outside the tropics. It's a big help to me to see which ones do well.
I agree that your Hot Pepper looks a little too different for conditions to explain it. But if not Hot Pepper, than what is it? I still think it probably is Hot Pepper but wish I had another one to send to you to compare it with. Unfortunately it is out of stock now. There will be quite a few offspring of Hot Pepper blooming for the first time this summer and next. I'm hoping for the same good bush qualities with bigger flowers in other colors.
Charlie
Great feedback Charlie. Ironic I thought my HP was the standard look but now I guess it is the oddball? I've attached an early morning pic of it (All That Jazz behind it) to give a better look at it. Remember it is still in the process of filling in it's leaves so in another month I expect it to be much fuller and will update. Since day one it has had really round leaves and loves to branch especially with SN spraying. As for the goal of nice full bushes, again I am inspired by the world garden pics from Australia that show what hibiscus can do when planted in ground and successfully grown for several years in what I would think is a climate more similar to interior So Cal valleys. I am really happy with the progress made so far this year as I am now seeing a lot of last year's slow growers start to get going. Hats off to you for realizing way back when that the bushes are as important as the blooms. |
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« Reply #177 on: July 28, 2011, 11:52:43 AM » |
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Lynette your blooms are insane!!!
They are all bursting with such wonderful colors and I couldn't pick a favorite if my life depended on it. Wow, wow, wow!!! Pure pleasure to look at...
Today's blooms...
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« Reply #178 on: July 28, 2011, 11:54:12 AM » |
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« Reply #179 on: July 28, 2011, 04:52:44 PM » |
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No blooms at the moment, but as there has been a lot of talk about bushes lately I thought I would show mine. The first picture are what I call my full sun cv's, the leaves are paler but they are still quite full and lush, at 12 o clock in this pic is Valentines Day, this cv is going to be huge. In the second picture these cv's get more shade, they are much darker and more full and are growing like crazy, i finaly after 3 years have sorted out my potting mix and the result is huge fast growth.
In the third picture I have tried to capture as many as I can, and the more you look to the bottom of the garden the more sun they get, what i really need is that Plumeria tree to hurry up and grow.
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