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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 8, 2014 15:30:35 GMT
Oh, I remember the conversation about that H. carnosa & the photo of the parent plant! How lovely that it has spread, so to speak, from one end of the country to the other.
I am now being told that those "buds" -- the fat purple ones -- are actually the flowers of that particular variety. Whereas they're adorable, I confess to being a little disappointed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 11:13:33 GMT
Yes, it's a "special" plant to be sure,and,I do treasure it and the generous spirit in which it was gifted to me.
I'm confused about where your disappointment lies. I seem to have missed something here.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 9, 2014 15:18:53 GMT
It's that the photo I showed turned out not to be buds, but the flowers themselves. I was really looking forward to those marzipan-y star-like flowers I associate with Hoyas.
I need to go take another picture of them. Each and every budlike-flower has a perfect droplet of nectar at the center.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 15:41:54 GMT
I find that most appealing to be honest. Of course I appreciate the wax-like 'marzinpanish' blooms, but, those purple weeping clusters are unique and so exotic.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jan 15, 2015 13:20:55 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2015 15:32:22 GMT
I almost took some photos today because some of the trees are already beginning to sprout due to the mild winter, but I am waiting to see some better example (before it suddenly snows).
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Jan 15, 2015 17:51:19 GMT
I almost took some photos today because some of the trees are already beginning to sprout due to the mild winter, but I am waiting to see some better example (before it suddenly snows). same here..
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Post by tod2 on Jan 18, 2015 9:21:27 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 2, 2015 20:27:05 GMT
Oh ~ missed seeing your four o'clock pictures, Tod! I really love them & love that you brought them from the Italian Riviera. My special agapanthus -- special because it's a variety with deeper blue blooms & the blooms are more long lasting ~
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Post by htmb on Mar 2, 2015 21:59:10 GMT
They are gorgeous. What a wonderful color.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 15:14:57 GMT
I always liked the surprising variety of four o'clocks and the fact that they would thrive cheerfully along any hot wall where I grew up.
The agapanthus is very nice. In all of the stuff about the colour blue the other day, I read that blue is the rarest colour for flowers and that most of the blue flowers that we see in gardens were created through human intervention.
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Post by breeze on Mar 3, 2015 19:41:22 GMT
That agapanthus is an unusual blue. There aren't enough blues in the flower world as far as I'm concerned. kerouac, I did not know that about humans improving many of the blue flowers. Mick's photos from Kew show quite a few lovely blues that developed their blueness all on their own.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 6:32:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 12:00:00 GMT
Wow! Gorgeous. Do you know what it is? I don't recognize it at all.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 12:28:26 GMT
Sorry, I don't have the slightest idea.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 13:15:15 GMT
The buds remind me of a Dicentra but, the foliage and color is all wrong for it to be that. Very curious.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2015 19:24:38 GMT
It's the sort of thing that probably several people will recognize the moment the flowers have opened. Does that mean I have to go back?
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 21, 2015 20:11:11 GMT
Hypericum perforatum aka St. John's wort Impatiens walleriana aka Busy Lizzie Adenium obesum aka desert rose Salvia officinalis aka sage; culinary sage Echinopsis chamaecereus aka peanut cactus Echeveria, I know not which Echinopsis ?Strelitzia reginae aka bird of paradise ~ double bud!Heliconia rostrata aka parrot's beak Euphorbia milii aka crown of thorns This is one of the large-leaved & -flowered hybrids.Heterotheca inuloides aka Mexican arnica
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Post by bixaorellana on May 12, 2015 21:27:58 GMT
This is the same Heliconia bud as in the post above, but now further advanced:
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2016 16:10:22 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Mar 31, 2016 20:22:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2016 10:51:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 27, 2016 4:02:27 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on May 27, 2016 4:50:45 GMT
That is going to be an explosion of roses. I adore that first picture.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2016 7:09:30 GMT
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 16, 2016 13:10:28 GMT
Aloe perfoliata -
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Post by tod2 on Nov 25, 2016 8:26:01 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 25, 2016 15:17:20 GMT
Lovely, lovely pictures of your agapanthus, Tod. It flowers at the opposite time of the year from mine, not surprisingly.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jan 18, 2017 22:05:03 GMT
Well, maybe not so completely opposite. I took these pictures today. This Agapanthus (which I believe to be 'Black Pantha') was in a large pot with not so great soil. I changed the soil & put it in a smaller pot & almost immediately got two buds. The two pics are of the same bud, though.
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Post by fumobici on Jan 19, 2017 2:28:56 GMT
Well, maybe not so completely opposite. I took these pictures today. This Agapanthus (which I believe to be 'Black Pantha') was in a large pot with not so great soil. I changed the soil & put it in a smaller pot & almost immediately got two buds. The two pics are of the same bud, though. Mandevilla ~ You are trying to torture us aren't you? Here's a video I took yesterday. I took it because the ice was *melting*. Finally.
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