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« Reply #150 on: July 19, 2012, 01:22:42 PM » |
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WOW! Flickering Flame has the biggest black eye zones yet today so it's a tie...
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« Reply #151 on: July 19, 2012, 01:26:58 PM » |
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A couple of blooms reflexed after opening and a then not so reflexed...
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« Reply #152 on: July 19, 2012, 01:29:29 PM » |
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sunset courtesy of Hurricane Fabio remnants...
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« Reply #153 on: July 19, 2012, 01:32:43 PM » |
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Vicki, welcome to the forum. You will certainly enjoy the plants you get from HVH. I look forward to seeing more pictures of your lovely house and yard.
John, seeing your Wild Grape made me add it to my Wish List. I just got a 4" size so I'll have to wait a bit for blooms.
Darren, the Wheel of Fortune bush is nice. It's hard to show it because it is one of 9 cvs that I planted in a 20' X 5' rectangular space in front of our porch facing due south when we moved to this house nine years ago. My intention was to let them grow together as a hedge and they have indeed done that which makes it hard to identify individual bushes. The visual effect is interesting because you see several varieties seemingly all mixed together at any given time. I took a few shots today to show you what I mean. The first one shows the mid portion of the hedge which is dominated by WOF--it has the larger leaves. The second is a step back photo to show more of the complete hedge. The third is cropped down to show mainly the WOF although there are branches from Prima Ballerina, Gil Whitton, Fiesta, and Herm Geller poking through as well. The last shot shows a rear view from the porch.
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« Reply #154 on: July 19, 2012, 01:40:40 PM » |
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Got my first bloom on Vin Beaujolais today. Also Hot Pepper, Creole Lady, and Lady in Waiting.
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« Reply #155 on: July 19, 2012, 08:58:01 PM » |
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Erny thank you for taking those extra shots for me. Wow, your bushes are mountains to say the least!! My goal has been the same as you to have a wall of hibiscus green with blooms all over the place. Nice to see how it can happen, we've got to visit each other sometime soon...
Your Vin Beaujolais is really impressive. It looks like it has a darker red eye and then the big red zone. Mine were lucky enough just to have a lighter red zone but no inner eye. Maybe that will change now with the new soil regime. Of all my plants VB suffered the most as I actually moved it so I cut all the roots. It just now is starting to leaf again...2+ months later. Last on my get well list is Prosperity, looks like it might be trying to leaf again for a second time.
Here's a few end of day shots, it actually broke 90F here for the first time this year. Some sidewalk shots and you can see how awesome FF did even in the heat.
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« Reply #156 on: July 20, 2012, 07:48:46 AM » |
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Great photos all around! It's nice to see more varieties start blooming. Should be a good show here in southern CA for at least 3-4 months more.
Meanwhile, I've been growing plants indoors so I can get back to hybridizing. Below are 2 of indoor hibiscus with the kind of colors they don't show if in a lot of sun.
Swamp Music - for me, this is at its best, no sun on a freshly opened flower, big too!
Summer Shore - I love the way this one quietly glows, tucked within the fine foliage of this bush.
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« Reply #157 on: July 20, 2012, 08:34:47 AM » |
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After 13 straight days of rain, we might get a break today.
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« Reply #158 on: July 20, 2012, 01:03:48 PM » |
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Its a Wonderful Life: The blooms have perfect form and it bloomed in pairs! Charlie what is the cross for this one? The site page says 5th D as mother and the forum topic says High Voltage and Fantasy Charm, I want to make sure I have it right in my records. Silver Dragon, the blooms recently have had a really dark eye, very striking bloom. Dancing Dragon pollen on those pads  |
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« Reply #159 on: July 20, 2012, 03:53:20 PM » |
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Checking my oldest info, I found that It's A Wonderful Life was originally numbered 478F and is Fifth Dimension x Fantasy Charm. No wonder several recent seedlings from IAWLife have been so interesting. Thanks for pointing out the mistake in the cultivar section, its fixed now.
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« Reply #160 on: July 20, 2012, 04:11:15 PM » |
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Hi Charlie, Thanks alot for that information! That does make sense why you are getting interesting banded seedlings. If it was High Voltage x Fantasy Charm, I would have expected more pink seedlings. Have anymore of your IAWL seedlings bloomed for you? I dusted these pads with Nightmare and Riptide pollen. I noticed those two really cool seedlings of yours both had Moonstruck in their background so I will try and copy your cross of IAWL x Moonstruck next and eventually when Fly me to the moon opens, pollen will be shared between them too. |
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« Reply #161 on: July 21, 2012, 09:16:06 AM » |
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High Voltage and Rainbow Sherbert
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« Reply #162 on: July 21, 2012, 10:07:56 AM » |
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John nice mulitple HV blooms - looking lush there! Any breaks from the rain?
These are yesterday's blooms...
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« Reply #163 on: July 21, 2012, 10:13:12 AM » |
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It seems as the parameters have changed to allow only 5 pics per post. Just checking to make sure...
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« Reply #164 on: July 21, 2012, 10:18:35 AM » |
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Erny a shot of a several clusters of my Celadine plumeria
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