December Flower Photos of the Day

[stplong]

Thanks for your comments everyone about the seedling, and Charlie the cross is Rosalind and Rainbow Sherbet, I thought the bloom looks alot like one of your photo's  on the Rainbow shertbet page, it's the photo on the bottom of the page.  Without cutting the bush it already is shelf branching.  I'm not sure what the look might be if it was outside, due to the Ohio cold it has been inside the house since September.




Patrick

[farmer d]

Thanks Chris as always.  Angela's is very pretty!  I hope mine get somewhere's near that look one day...Congrats Angela - can't wait to see many more from you.

Mine lack that colorful vibrancy but as always I'll keep tweaking things in hopes of better blooms.

Farmer D

[Angela]

Here's my "Bienevue" and "Bon Temps" side by side... (these were the first blooms after buying them)  But who knows maybe the grower doesn't have the true CVs.... or it could be my colder temps.  It hasn't been getting much over 75˚ here but our overnight temps are more mild. We have a small temp swing here.

[Angela]

Thanks Chris as always.  Angela's is very pretty!  I hope mine get somewhere's near that look one day...Congrats Angela - can't wait to see many more from you.

Mine lack that colorful vibrancy but as always I'll keep tweaking things in hopes of better blooms.

Farmer D

Wow I love that salmon-ish Bienevue...  wanna trade LOL

[Angela]

I was just thinking... when I look at my photo it looks pretty true to what it looks like in reality but seeing colors on the web is complicated...  there are color profiles that cameras assign and each browser can interpret them differently and monitors vary too!! But thanks for the compliment! Like I said I'm a newbie when it comes to hibiscus and I hope to have some awesome flowers like all of you on the forum... I'm totally blown away by everyone's beautiful photos.

[davidwood]

I have been away for 2 days, I cant believe all the yellow leaves I came home to, watered Saturday morning and its now Monday afternoon, about 50 hours and everything was bone dry, after I had cleaned up I had a few nice blooms. I have been usuing half a teaspoon of Booster with each watering for a few weeks now and am seeing a big improvement in my blooms.

[Ernest]

Beautiful photo David. The colors are so vivid they just jump out at you.

[davidwood]

Beautiful photo David. The colors are so vivid they just jump out at you.

Thanks Erny, its the end of the rainy season here so very cloudy overcast sky's, this certainly brings out the best in my garden, maybe just 1 or 2 hours of blazing sun a day and sometimes none at all, this should last for about 7 weeks, hopefully I can show more nice blooms to cheer up your American winter.

I know I prattled on yesterday about my plants all being bone dry after not watering for 50 hours but it was a big shock for me, I had left it before and never had a problem like that, it just proves that by increasing the Potassium you need a lot more water, one more thing to try and remember.

[davidwood]

Thanks for your comments everyone about the seedling, and Charlie the cross is Rosalind and Rainbow Sherbet, I thought the bloom looks alot like one of your photo's  on the Rainbow shertbet page, it's the photo on the bottom of the page.  Without cutting the bush it already is shelf branching.  I'm not sure what the look might be if it was outside, due to the Ohio cold it has been inside the house since September.
Patrick

Have been away and just seen your seedling, wow!!!

[farmer d]

Here's my "Bienevue" and "Bon Temps" side by side... (these were the first blooms after buying them)  But who knows maybe the grower doesn't have the true CVs.... or it could be my colder temps.  It hasn't been getting much over 75˚ here but our overnight temps are more mild. We have a small temp swing here.

Hi Angela,

Such beautiful blooms. I definitely see the one on the rt as Bienvenue.  The other one I still doubt it is Bon Temps.  The form is closer but boy those colors are so different.  If you could got a shot of the leaves that would be the clincher as BT has some unique leaves that are more pointy with jagged sides and usually really dark green.

Either way you got some killer blooms.  Glad to have you on board!

Farmer D

[davidwood]

High Voltage mother and daughter and a nice Samba Dancer.

[farmer d]

Thanks Erny, its the end of the rainy season here so very cloudy overcast sky's, this certainly brings out the best in my garden, maybe just 1 or 2 hours of blazing sun a day and sometimes none at all, this should last for about 7 weeks, hopefully I can show more nice blooms to cheer up your American winter.

I know I prattled on yesterday about my plants all being bone dry after not watering for 50 hours but it was a big shock for me, I had left it before and never had a problem like that, it just proves that by increasing the Potassium you need a lot more water, one more thing to try and remember.

David isn't it amazing how much more water the drink up when the potassium is upped.  I'm lucky since my soil is wet heavy clay my plants have an endless supply of water to drink from.  It is also scary how fast things can change too.  I couldn't believe what the spider mites did in the week and half I was out of town after 2 days of 100F temps.  Three of my smaller plants were almost defoliated in that time.  Such is the life of the hibiscus lover....

David your Acapulco Gold has so much deep color I can't believe it.  Though I remember you saying you prefer it in the yellow zone so maybe we should switch!

Today's blooms...

Raging Bull went back to normal but interesting shot with the super dark one still in the background.  Amazing how right next to each other and just a few days apart the blooms can vary so much in color.

Ay Caramba today showed a new bloom with some pink in the eye - that's a first.

Farmer D

[farmer d]

a few more...Picante seems really happy with a giant petaloid

Farmer D

[Angela]

Hi Angela,

Such beautiful blooms. I definitely see the one on the rt as Bienvenue.  The other one I still doubt it is Bon Temps.  The form is closer but boy those colors are so different.  If you could got a shot of the leaves that would be the clincher as BT has some unique leaves that are more pointy with jagged sides and usually really dark green.

Either way you got some killer blooms.  Glad to have you on board!

Farmer D

Ugh... perhaps I'm a victim of another mislabeling or maybe a customer switched them...  I'm too impatient to buy ones that are blooming!  I almost bought the wrong hibiscus when I was looking for a "Gabriel" luckily there was am old closed flower on it and I could tell it was similar to Gabriel. LOL but it's probably not Gabriel...

[Angela]

Thanks for the ID help Chris and Farmer D....  Chris I was confused about which one you meant was Bienevue, mine or Farmer D's...  after googling it I see now that mine is definitely Bienevue...  here is the first flower from it (the one before the one I posted).