Who could top that? Amazing!

I haven't taken my favorite picture this season yet! I do rather like this extreme close up of 'Zombie':

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Shot inside under available light.

I also like the way this shot of 'Lemon Sorbet' turned out, again, inside and w/available light:

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Hi! I guess this would be my fav. for 09 the color
just jumps at you!

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Susan

Oh, no! My favorite Hippi photo that I've taken? Gosh... I have hundreds and hundreds of pictures in my Photo Album... arranged in no particular order... it would take me forever to look through my random collection and choose a favorite shot!

What I CAN do is choose a favorite RECENT shot...

This is an Australian variety, Party Pooper, from MaGuire's. It was a gift from very special friends.

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Since I still have a few bulbs that haven't bloomed yet, I may change my mind as photos are taken and stored... I don't use any special techniques or backgrounds for my flower photography. Some just happen to turn out really nice, depending on how the light hits them at the time of capture.

This is a great idea, Kristi! I just wish I had created separate folders in my album for different subjects... it would be easier to choose a favorite that way! Oh well... we live and learn! And if I change anything in my album now, all my previously posted photos would be dead links... so... it is what it is!

I have a couple of favs, like my Nymph that looks like a wedding bouquet. It can be your fav from yesterday or last year...or all time. I still love those little frogs!! I have a folder of horizonal shots of all the blooms (or most) with the names written on the background...so they are good for all sorts of projects: cards, calendars, etc.
Kristi

Great pictures, everyone. These blooms are just perfect subjects!

My favorite shot - and my favorite bulb - is Blossom Peacock. This is its first rebloom while owning it, taken earlier this year. It really has a great smell too.
Alana
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My favorite is from last year - my papilio ordered from Brent and Beckys Bulbs. I didn't do anything special for the photo; it's outside, natural light.
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Beverly

Great Pictures everyone! i love that party pooper and papillio.

here are mine : Amigo
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And Fairytale from 2 years ago
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Oh, wow.

Clancy, I love that photo. Super dramatic flair. The background is a great counterbalance to the petals.

And the swirls in that white flower, Kristi. It looks like scrumptious, inviting white bedding, but better. Or maybe you're favorite white linen shirt.

Love the whirling stripes in Zombie, too. And the Gilmar is much more impressive than other photos I've seen. Love the sheen on the Amigo.

Thanks so much for this thread. I'm making those ummmm yummy sounds.
My first bloom is just opening, so I'll be posting pics soon.

G

Kristi, I purchased a giant 'White Nympth' bulb (lots of roots, tra-LA) last night at a special hippe shop within a garden center in town. Is that what your picture is of?

Great photos everyone. I like this gropu shot of Aphrodite.
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Well....since you asked I just have to post that photo, right? I think it may be "White Nymph"...I just always though it was Nymph...
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K

Kristi, I meant to ask what is the name of the hippe in your first photo of this post?

Such gorgeous shots everyone!! Here I go again, I'll try to post my Blossom Peacock from last year.

Here is a link that might be useful: blossom peacock

These are all amazing pics. I really like your 'blossum peacock' dondeldux. Is it for B & B's bulbs?

Thanks!! Yes, it was from Brent and Becky's a couple of years ago. If I might try again I had a beautiful Toronto last year......here goes!

Donna

Here is a link that might be useful: Toronto

My white double was a "boxed bulb"...sold as a white...It's not huge. I had asked for an ID year ago...it's too small for White Peacock, so don't know what it is. It's a Frog Flower!
K

My favourite is not of a bloom, but the promise of a bloom - complete with bulb warmer!
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I found this photo on the internet, by accident - I did not see an author noted.
But look who appeared in our garden this fall - tiny and homeless, (he is neither anymore!)
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Chesney is his name, after the vet informed us he was not a Chelsea ;)

I like the contrasting environments in this shot of 'Exotic Star'. That is our first snow fall outside the window, very cold and gloomy background for the very warm and tropical look of these blooms.
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It also shows some strong contrast between the hardness of the window and framing and the gentle curves of the hippie foliage and buds. This is the second bloom stem on this tiny hybrid. Again, just perfect.

Looks like the same kitty in the flower pot.....lucky little boy!!

Great pictures, everyone!

This isn't a Hippi, but I love how it turned out... my large white Phal...

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Here is one I just took today. Was photographing it because I thought they were so pretty when I noticed the HEart...do you see it, there between the flowers?

My Pink Floyd

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I have been pondering for a while now on what pic to post here. With the thousands of Hippie pic I have taken, this is what's most close to my heart.

This is my "prettiest flower" with my very first hippeastrum that I received as a Christmas gift in 2004 or 2005. Ana was just around 3 or 4 years old then. She has always loved my flowers and "grew" with them.

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Sighhhhhh...Time flies by so fast. And here she is last spring. STILL my prettiest flower.
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Bulbs waiting to bloom. The giant one was supposed to be apple blossom. The water globes are to keep the cat from laying around them, there is no water in them. This is the side porch that faces west.
Tally HO!

My Lemon and Lime has blooms, images not yet up loaded, will post to my Blog w/link here.

NOTE: 'Nymph' - what kaboehm has is 'Nymph', there is also a 'White Nymph'; I have both and will post an image of both as soon as WN blooms - it is in scape now, and 'Nymph' is working on bloom stem #2.

Tiny 'Little Star' has new bloom open now on its second stem.

Marie, your "flowers" are so very pretty! Sure to turn heads as they mature! Good job!

Lizalily, that is not 'Pink Floyd', PF is a small trumpet, this may be 'Pink Diamond'.

jodik, your white Phals are gorgeous! I have rescued several from Lowe's and hope to see they looking this good next time they bloom. Several have already branched out on their old scapes and I hope to get them into their own lighted plant rack before they do bloom.

Love the way the scape present their blooms.

Anna, lovely kitty, I have 5 and all are too big to curl up in the pots but they do drape themselves over my desk and around my keyboard! I also have to leave room for them in the windows!

I suspected it was not Pink Floyd but I knew you would tell me! Must see where I got it and ask for a replacement but this is one of those you do not mind them being wrong!

OK, did some research. THis is not Pink Diamond. The white starry centers spread out in in many undefined rays that are eventually blend into the pink, not nearly as defined as PInk Diamond. ALso, Pink Diamond looks like a much larger flower.

Could this be Neon Rose?

I would characterize my pink beauty as having small flowers, no more then 4-5" across and it has 7(!) flowers all blooming at once. Makes a perfect circle around the stalk. The stalk is about 22" tall, head and shoulders above the rest that are blooming. Also, the flowers have lovely petals that curl back at the tips, making it look very frothy. Neither my friend or I could detect any fragrance, though I don't have a good nose for fragrance, she usually does.

What ever it is, I just love it! But if it is the wrong flower, I want to write to the supplier and see if I can get a true Pink Floyd like I ordered. This was my second try. THe first one never bloomed for me and dwindled away. I think it was not in good condition when it arrived.

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Lizalily, I thought Neon Rose. It looks just like mine - a stunner! Alana
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They don't look like MY Neon Rose! Mine are sort of trumpet-shaped.
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Those all are some awesome photo's!
Susan

I have two favorites and for different reasons.

This first one is of Dancing Queen. The name makes me laugh or at least smile when I see it and the flower even looks like it's having a party-- I think this shot because of how its "peeking" out at you.

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This next one is very recent, but shows my first and one of my favorite flowers-- Picotee. Anyone who knows me on this forum knows I'm a sucker for those delicately colored edges. This shot is one of my favorites because, I believe, our cold nights and warm days this last summer yielded a very defined flower on my picotee, which blooms without fail at least once a year for me. To me it is representative of the hippeastrum flowers. Bold and showy yet delicate and detailed.

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Ryan

Ryan, what a beautiful edge you got with your Colorado light!
My first and only Picotee had such a pale edge it was hardly noticable in our dark winter. If I could grow it like that I would be more interested in trying it again!

In my decision for my favorite pic I tried to find the picture that was not only lovely but most closely resembled the look of the flower in person.

For me my surprise Harlequin fits the bill.
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If only one of the flowers I fertilized with her pollen had formed a productive seed pod. Alas I will have to hope for next season.

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Amputo is my favorite so far, the frilled blooms are just so elegant and with the black background (just photographed with flash from the lightend room out of the window at night) it works well. Sadly there is this one bloom that already withers and I marked it with a label that says the name of the fatherplant. So this picture is not perfect, just the one bloom in the front is really sharp and the glowing spot there downright is from a lamp on the other side of the road. I should have edited this away ...
Nevertheless, this picture is nicely composed with just the one flower in the flower in the front and this whole buch of flowers in the back. I also like the fact that you can see well how long and slim Amputo's trumpets are. It really is a gorgeous breed.

Carl, Amputo exactly matches the shape of my pink mystery flower! Must be the same kind of genetics but with the brilliant pink color over it. Is Amputo a South American hybrid?

Fantastic blooms, everyone!

Rocky Mt. Ryan, my next double will be Dancing Queen... she's so lively and colorful!

Carl, my Amputo never bloomed... it's been napping for a long time! It grew some nice leaves last spring, but then went to sleep. I hope it blooms next spring! I like yours!

Maria, as always, everything you grow is special... and that includes your beautiful daughters, as well as your flowers! :-)

Great growing and great photography, everyone!

Carl, I love my Amputo too. Such a great shape. Where you successful in getting seeds from it? I've tried several times with no luck. Any suggestions?
Alana

Urgs, I just saw how huge the image was, sorry for that!

@lily: I have no idea. Haweha commented my pictures on the german forum and wrote that he too had no idea who the ancestors could have been, the broad stakes are a trade of an big flowering cultivar. So perhaps they crossed a trumpet shaped specie with dutch cultivar? You might be able to find who crossed it.

@Alana: Yes, I received seeds from Amputo x Sydney and Sydney x Amputo. I had so many flowers, there where 2 stakes with 3 blooms and 2 from one bulb with 4 each! I used this one for my crosses (even though it might just be a stronger clone from tissue cultivation), but I should have pollinated the other ones just to check what workes. I think I'll try to save pollen and try as much as possible.
Ok, any suggestions ... finally:
Amputo seems to be a Tetraploid regardless of it's fragrant looks. So it's a perfect candidate for a cross with a big-flowerig dutch hybrid. You should be able to preserve some of the colour scemes of the other parent. White flowers are often connected to a genetic defect where the plant's gene that transcribes pigments can't be read. So the other parent should be able to bring in some colours. What I'd like to try would be Grandeur, if anyone has pollen of these ... perhaps I should ask in another thread. ;)