Flowers 2021

[Carol 83]

My Calliandra - powderpuff - Selloi is blooming again.

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Just beautiful, like it's glowing.

 

[Carol 83]

 

[ABCarve]

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Ooooohh! Gotta get me one!! Ordered a hardy one online. It came DOA, I chock it up to Covid casualty. I’d like to find one that had a little caliper. Not easy to find where I live.

 

[Carol 83]

Ooooohh! Gotta get me one!! Ordered a hardy one online. It came DOA, I chock it up to Covid casualty. I’d like to find one that had a little caliper. Not easy to find where I live.

They don't sell hardy ones around here, they sell them as annuals. Never tried bringing one inside before, but it loves the lights!

 

[Maiden69]

Pink Beauty Japanese Quince from Brent. Just received it last week along with 3 others, but it was the only one with flower buds at the moment.



Nuccios Wild Cheery





Azalea Encore Sangria. This one flowers all the time, nice pinkish purple... but one of the branches gives me these flowers... I am planning on air-layering and see if I can have a tree with just those flowers. I know it is past its prime... but it's the only picture I found in my computer at this time.

 

[Carol 83]

 

[TN_Jim]

My friend gave me this rooted cutting from her great grandmothers old school spider plant. I began to be suspicious of it being a spider plant until it recently through this elongate running branch with apical leaves. Recently it became covered in buds and this one bloom opened this morning…good things

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

@Carol 83 -. Carol inspired me to get a few Camelia over the summer. Most went into the well house for winter, below 40F, to sit. But this one was in medium high bud. It finally opened. Camelia 'High Fragrance' . It has a pleasant fragrance, but so far it is a faint fragrance. A bit disappointed. Nice color for Christmas.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Another recent bloomer is an orchid, Lycaste macrobulbon. Lovely 2 inch across yellow flowers, they last about 3 weeks. Comes from a wet-dry monsoon climate, pacific coast of Colombia. It flowers at the end of the dry season. It dropped it's leaves in early October. Unfortunately no fragrance.




Flowers were fading when I took the photos. Normal color is a smooth vibrant chrome yellow.

 

[Firstflush]

Cymbidium going to make a show for the first time ever…

 

[penumbra]

Cymbidium going to make a show for the first time ever…

It must be a challenge where you live. Even here cymbidium are grown in a cooler greenhouse. The species hates hot but maybe you have a cultivar I am not familiar with that doesn't mind the heat as much.

 

[Firstflush]

It must be a challenge where you live. Even here cymbidium are grown in a cooler greenhouse. The species hates hot but maybe you have a cultivar I am not familiar with that doesn't mind the heat as much.

Here in southern cal, we can grow them in the ground, we just have to place them with afternoon shade.
It is the standard bright yellow cymbidium.

 

[Carol 83]

@Carol 83 -. Carol inspired me to get a few Camelia over the summer. Most went into the well house for winter, below 40F, to sit. But this one was in medium high bud. It finally opened. Camelia 'High Fragrance' . It has a pleasant fragrance, but so far it is a faint fragrance. A bit disappointed. Nice color for Christmas.

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Very pretty, I think similar to what my Buttons and Bows will look like. Do you think the ones in the wellhouse will bloom with no light?

 

[TN_Jim]

@Carol 83 -. Carol inspired me to get a few Camelia over the summer. Most went into the well house for winter, below 40F, to sit. But this one was in medium high bud. It finally opened. Camelia 'High Fragrance' . It has a pleasant fragrance, but so far it is a faint fragrance. A bit disappointed. Nice color for Christmas.

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the density of petals here is just ridiculous.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Very pretty, I think similar to what my Buttons and Bows will look like. Do you think the ones in the wellhouse will bloom with no light?

I'm hoping the ones in the well house stay dormant until spring, they were the spring blooming ones. I will have to keep an eye on them. I have 2 autumn or winter bloomers, and 2 for spring.

'High Fragrance' opened up wide, over 3 inches across. Now it is fairly potent fragrance.

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

Camelia 'High Fragrance' now open about 8 days. Definitely living up to it's name, fragrance is good, sweet and fairly potent. I'm pretty happy with it.

 

[Crazy Diamond]

 

[Leo in N E Illinois]

@Arnold - those are nice, what genus are the cacti? And the last flower?

 

[Crazy Diamond]

The cacti are Astrophytum capricorne and Rebutia muscula, the bulb its Amaryllis belladonna

 

[Mike Westervelt]

Our outdoor fuscias don't realize it's almost Christmas !!

But winter is finally coming this weekend.