This is a bright way to start any Saturday! Twin Cities Chapter member, Connie R. is growing this Sinningia and recently brought it to a meeting to share it with the club. It's a relatively compact plant that's over three years old now. It blooms and then will go through a dormancy period only to come back even better than before!I, personally, have always had some trouble getting the big-flowered speciosas to stay compact and bloom without losing any of the flowers. I'm impressed!This one has such a nice combination of colors in the flower. We're all wondering the best way to propagate it. The taller types of Sinningia are easy enough to take stem cuttings from but these guys are more rosette-type and sometimes only put up the one stem from the tuber at a time and you wouldn't want to ruin the flowering by taking it off for rooting.
So, comments???? How do you do propagate it best??
Well, we DID IT!
Our first show in over 35 years! The Twin Cities Chapter of the Gesneriad Society put on a show at Bachman's on Lyndale.
It was a success!
We had lots of information. Our room had lots of plants. We tried something new. We let all our members bring the plants that they like to grow... Gesneriads AND other plants like Orchids, Begonias, Ferns etc. We had some really cool stuff.... Pretty Sinningias and dish gardens.... Petrocosmeas and Primulinas.... Streptocarpus and Columnea and all the rest!And we even had African violets (because they are Gesneriads too!!!)
All in all it was a display and sale success. We are all hopeful that we shared the beauty and interest of the plants with the public and helped people to appreciate the importance of diversity and conservation too!
Questions???Comments????
