These are the "treasures" I brought back from the WI Chapter's African Violet growers show in Madison, WI last weekend at the Olbrich Conservatory.
The blooms are a bit travel weary but still, they are awesome flowers and I can't wait to see them growing at my house.
This is the very interesting African violet 'Yukako' with the green chimera stripe!
Another on the green theme... African violet 'Frozen in Time' which I think is just awesomely cool.
A new Streptocarpus introduction by Nancy Braun called 'Tutti Frutti'. This might be my single favorite color combination on a Strep. ever. Again, the blossom is a bit abused by being stuffed into a closed box for a 400 mile drive, but 'ya know', it is still very lovely!
This is Harmony's 'Little Stinker'. The variegation on the leaves is said to be chimera variegation. This is very interesting and only a few cultivars seem to have this type of leaf patterning. I was told by the grower of this plant that it needs to be kept cool. I will give that my best shot but I'm a little worried that all the variegation will go away.
Did you know that temperature affects the amount of variegation that shows up on the leaves???
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