HELLO! Now that I'm not quite so busy with other club stuff for the Twin Cities Chapter of the Gesneriad Society, I can post more fun stuff on the blog.Here are some pix of what's blooming right now in the ole' plant room. This handsome thing is Sinningia 'Diva'. It's an example of a corola that has changed into "extra petals" to give the flower a double look. You will not see the sepals at the base of the flower. The flowers are large and it's quite showy! This year I finally got xPhinastema 'California Dreaming' to grow into something! Mine is still small but it's got big plans.
The plant is rhizomatous and comes back year to year from its rhizomes. You will like the very dark, almost black leaves with the electric pink flowers. This plant stays petite and grows great under lights. You want it!African violet 'Neverfloris' just gets buds and no flowers open. Weird. It does indeed have the charm of growing into a nicely shaped show plant (not that you can tell from my violet efforts) but you can believe me. LOL Kohleria 'Tom Thumb' does stay smaller than the 3 foot cousins that I seem to get off of ebay. Nice flowers and a more reasonable size. The flash (which wasn't supposed to flash) highlighted the white hair on the outside of the Sinningia 'Magic Moment' blooms so nicely I let it happen.
What a nice plant this is... You want one of these too. Ok, I'm in love!
This is xSinvana 'Mount Magazine'. The xSinvanas are awesome! The flowers are large and pretty and stay on the plant a long time.
I was unlucky and lost xSin. 'Mt. Nebo' but hope to find it again this fall on ebay. The are pretty cool plants!This is a gift. It's labeled Sinningia 'Amizade'. The foliage is a different color from the description but it's beautiful and it's healthy. I'm excited to see it flower. Streptocarpus 'Watermelon Wine' is a stunning flower. It's really this red and stays nicely on the plant. My plant is only a baby but I'm looking forward to seeing multiple flowers on the plant. I got this from an auction on eBay from plant_maniac in Iowa. Nice stufffffff! I got a lovely Smithiantha 'Jimi Hendrix' from Gary's and it bloomed and then died back. I was hoping I hadn't done anything awful to it, but it was healthy and had rhizomes in the pot! All of the rhizomes from two different plants of 'Jimi' have pink on one end and the light green on the other. Curious! I started a baby plant of Vanhouttea lanata. I can't seem to get the big one to routinely flower, but the foot long baby is happily making flowers.
The are about an inch long and very pretty with their spots. Ok, YOU WANT THIS ONE. This is a Sinningia 'Stone's Yulia'.
it's got the sexy stripe on the bottom of the flower and it's a very compact, polite and lovely plant with the dark foliage.This one is a keeper! I've recently switched to keeping Sinningias in bonsai soil mix. 1-1-1 poultry grit, NAPA floor dry (DE in just the right size) and bark chips/bits.
I am surely loosing less tubers to rot now. You do have to water relatively consistantly, but it seems to be worth it!
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