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« Reply #60 on: November 06, 2011, 07:10:41 PM » |
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John your blooms from this morning were beautiful. Compassion was especially lovely with that awesome color fade into the yellow. Great stuff!!!
Rudolph and Saffron both were minis today and are so similar...
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« Reply #61 on: November 06, 2011, 07:14:11 PM » |
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Prosperity will one day be mine!!!  |
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David In Nha Trang Vietnam
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« Reply #62 on: November 06, 2011, 07:29:50 PM » |
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Thanksgiving and some strange creature today.
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« Reply #63 on: November 06, 2011, 07:30:36 PM » |
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Here is a picture of my Bonnie Lass today chillin in my laundry room. She is in there with Confection Perfection, Tahitian Princess and Pinot Noir. All are less than a year old so I brought them in due to the cold. I tried leaving BL outside because it was the biggest of the "smalls" but after one night of 40-something temps, some of the leaves and the buds were wilty. Amazingly, she completely recovered after being brought inside! I was happy about that. I am wondering if I will get to see that bud bloom in the laundry room.....I'm hoping so as I haven't had a BL bloom yet!!
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« Reply #64 on: November 07, 2011, 08:16:32 AM » |
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Darren, your Prosperity is looking great. I always like the ruffled blooms.
Charlie, you were right about Saffron Moon. I had to stake up the smaller branches. They couldn't support the heavy blooms.
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I wasn't born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.
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« Reply #65 on: November 07, 2011, 11:25:09 AM » |
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Its been so sunny and unseasonably warm. Mid 60's during the day and 40's at night. The windows are beaming with warm intense sun... and my hib's are recovering from the move indoors. Here is some from today.
Start with a super warm and quite pretty Voodoo Magic. One of my favorite bushes of all.
And one of my all time favorite blooms. Heavy Metal. This one got pollinated by My Blue Heaven and vice versa. I also put this pollen on Ruby Tuesday to see what happens. I dont know if that one sets seed pods or not... Charlie?
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« Reply #66 on: November 07, 2011, 11:26:39 AM » |
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I forgot to add this cute Ruby Tuesday in with the others. So nice to see these colors inside the house.
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« Reply #67 on: November 07, 2011, 11:32:08 AM » |
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Its been so sunny and unseasonably warm. Mid 60's during the day and 40's at night.
How funny that you refer to these temps as warm while Darren and I are complaining that the exact same temps are miserable and wintery. That Heavy Metal is awesome! And you know how I feel about Voodoo Magic! Beautiful! |
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farmer d
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« Reply #68 on: November 07, 2011, 10:03:04 PM » |
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David that is a Praying Mantis...good to have as it eats insects.
Denise your BL looks very happy and healthy. I love the shine to the leaves.
John your blooms are all looking very nice, lasting many days on end - huh!?
Kristen I am jealous of how deep and dark the colors of your blooms are. Just gorgeous...I can see why you're such a big fan of Saffron too as even my little mini is really impressive for sure.
Today was 63F & 43F, so everything is going on in slow motion here. Blooms last for a week but new buds don't do much. Should still be around 75F normally so with the winter weather Black Dream has gone super dark/awesome with 15 open blooms.
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« Reply #69 on: November 07, 2011, 10:07:05 PM » |
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a few more...
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davidwood
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« Reply #70 on: November 08, 2011, 01:38:21 AM » |
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David that is a Praying Mantis...good to have as it eats insects.
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Thanks Darren, I have just researched that on the Internet, I am presuming the one I have is not an adult so I will keep an eye out for its mum and dad, anything that can eat Mealybugs is my friend, they are my biggest pest. Kristen did you see I asked about the camera, you probably missed it. When you talk about the card, do you mean the card that stores the pictures? Or is there another card inside the camera that needs to be changed. Stunning Heavy Metal by the way. |
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« Reply #71 on: November 08, 2011, 01:56:59 AM » |
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Has anyone ever come across this creature. I would say its some sort of beetle. Its only really a problem on my doubles, Magnifique Samba Dancer etc, and its really horrible, what it does is worm its way into a semi-opened double bloom and then eats all it can, when I find it and flick it out its usually that fat it cant fly away.
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« Reply #72 on: November 08, 2011, 07:16:48 AM » |
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How funny that you refer to these temps as warm while Darren and I are complaining that the exact same temps are miserable and wintery. That Heavy Metal is awesome! And you know how I feel about Voodoo Magic! Beautiful! Yeah, CT is full of seasons... It is a nice thing to have changes, but I am bugging Matt to move to CA. I would love to have beautiful warm sunny days 365! Although it is nice to go outside on a autumn day, have it be a crisp fresh 55º and go for a trail ride on my horse though. I would miss that. Thanks for the HM and VM compliment. Love those blooms! Darren, I do get some great colors in CT. Even in the summer time with the high temps, the night time still stays nice and cool, around 70-80, so I get the nice colors then too. David, sorry not to respond. Your Sony uses a Memory stick DUO right. That is the only card that you need to worry about. You should replace that. They are pretty inexpensive right now as technology is growing. You can get a bigger / faster card for half the price of what you paid when you bought the one you are using now probably. I just looked online for them, here they are around $30 for a 8 GB card which for your camera is plenty big. If this doesn't solve the problem, you may need to bring it into a camera store and have it checked out. |
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farmer d
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« Reply #73 on: November 08, 2011, 07:08:51 PM » |
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Kristen as an added bonus to moving out here you get the chance to go to an open house. Now isn't that the tipping point for the decision?
Weather is slowly improving as today it hit 70 and next two days in high 70s. Then comes the weekend and lots of rain and cold weather again...
Ay Caramba is sure an interesting CV as it has some exciting unorthodox form in colder weather. Almost looks like flames being blown out almost backwards from the bud. Pretty wild!
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« Reply #74 on: November 08, 2011, 09:17:49 PM » |
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Haha good luck Kristen making it in California. Talk about one of the worst job markets in the country, I would love to move back to Southern California, but even with my science/engineering background the job prospects are slim. Probably for the same price you have your nice house in CT, you could get a studio in LA, lol.
Darren, fantastic blooms, just wait till you start seeing your blues and brown blooms in this cooler weather, those blooms will be the nicest you see this year. I have to agree that orange and yellow blooms are not usually as nice in cooler weather, this is probably why my "taste" in CVs has switched from bright oranges and yellows to blues and browns. They are just much more stunning in my weather conditions here in the PNW. There is one cv that I thought was much nicer in cooler weather and that is Cosmic Gold. The blooms got huge and had a beautiful tangerine cast on them when the weather cooled off in the fall. Nice bush on that one too, I really enjoy the reddish wood and dark green leaves that one has.
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