Hi Hyn Patty, this one was grown from one of KO's seed (Elegant Ballerina) I think it turned out much better then the mother/seed I purchased... I actually got 2 like this from one packet of seed & the others were similar to the mother plant. I sold off the others & kept the 2 bolder stripe ones for my collection. I love this flower too, the stripes are beautiful & it just screams tropical to me. I would love to try & breed a double of this flower one day. Below is a photo of the mother/seed I purchased from Mr Ko's website. Maybe you should buy a packet too. Rachel :) This photo is Elegant Ballerina & is taken from Mr Ko's website, to show the seed I ordered!

Good to see you around here, DG 🙂 Fighting with critters over blackberries and the last of my tomatoes right now. Birds and (I think) rats as well 😕 I made some tomato sauce yesterday from all the damaged fruit I managed to salvage - almost a quart - and I have a couple of pints of berries I need to make into a cobbler. Waiting for a second flush of Rattlesnake pole beans - still have a few pounds in the fridge. I have pots and pots of perennials, shrubs and a pine tree that need to go in the ground, but I can't decide where, and it's getting so dang hot out there, I don't want to do anything but stay indoors in the AC. Our neighbor has a ginormous Kapok tree that recently, finally, finished dropping a couple million seeds encased in gallons of white fluff that coated our (and others') yard and I'm still picking fibers off everything and pulling the resulting seedlings whenever I come across them. They quickly form long, strong taproots and can be really hard to eradicate if you don't get them early. At least the rain helped wash a lot of it down - it was floating in the air and coating everything until the rains came. Advice for Floridians: DON'T PLANT A KAPOK TREE!

Hi there, I remember you! My name is the same, but I hardly ever come here anymore. Are you still in Nodak? My brother and his wife have lived in Hettinger for about 30 years now, so we go to visit every once in awhile.

Thank-you for the updates on both Elliot and your social life. :) Elliot looks like he loves where he is living.