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Sue_va
7 years ago
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Comments (9)Thank you, Calvin; that's funny about one of your favorites :) At the spring OS show, this year, I made the mistake of sniffing a big single flowered (5") Bulbo. The scent was of putrifying fish. Whewie! Richard--beautiful picture! I'd post one if I could--and may be able to do so later in the week. How much variation occurs with these plants? If it is a species, perhaps very little; but if Sharry Baby is a hybrid ~? The shape and structure of my flowers are identical to yours, except that the lip is more wavy-edged and broad enough to overlap the lower sepals slightly. Your color on my computer appears dark red with pale yellow-gold petal/sepal tips. This tipping on mine looks white, is very narrow, and is only on half of the flowers. Where your flower is red, mine are maroon (red-purple mixed with a little brown); otherwise, the columns are identical, as are the prickly looking areas at the top of the lip. The "ears" that flank this area on yours are mostly white, edged with greenish-pink; on mine, the ears are solid red-purple. On your flower, the flared part of the lip has red at the top edge with the rest white and a center flash of pink. Oddly, on mine the pattern is almost reversed: the flared portion of the lip ranges from all red-purple, to red-purple with an occasional flash of white, to red-purple with a U of white in the center. The scent is of chocolate melting on the stove. When all is said and done, what I have is a Noid Oncidium, because the tag was lost, but I'm quite content--actually, delighted (!) that it bloomed. It is a pretty thing, and I love the smell. Thank you for posting that nice picture! Sc...See MoreGolden Celebration-- Not For Me!
Comments (16)I don't grow any Austins so can't vouch for any you've asked for, but I have grown Julia Child for two summers. Last summer no spray it kept its leaves and bloomed well until the fall when it developed bs problems, but not enough for me to sp it. It lost maybe 30% of its leaves. Is this for an area with modern roses? I do really iike the tea, Etoile de Lyon, and have it growing outside the herb garden near some viburnums. It's pale, though. I moved JC into an herb garden between Prairie Harvest and April Moon, both of which have been good here. I've acquired atocha gold and have two golden fairy tales coming. I'll let you know how they do. I'm trying to grow yellows in this garden and need them to stay small as it's not a large area, so I'm not using many teas. Kate, thanks for the help decoding Austin's prose....See MoreHigh Tide's coming out party
Comments (4)Just for the sake of following the trail and tying up loose ends, I visited Plant Delights Nursery website to check out their Lederhosen listing. Since they do not carry it now, they have an "information" sheet on it. The strange thing is, I think the picture they have up for Lederhosen is in fact that of High Tide or perhaps Sky Dancer which is more green than blue. It sure does not look like the pictures of Lederhosen on the Hosta Library. I got curious about this because Babka said her Lederhosen never got such shiny leaves as the one I have. My Lederhosen has always "melted" to a flat dark green patent leather look in late summer. Most of the veins seem to disappear as well. Here it is in May 2012, 2 years after I got it, and now 2 years 2 years later than that. The Lederhosen info picture at PDN looks exactly like the leaf and plant shape of High Tide or Sky Dancer.... So .....what the heck is going on with THAT! I thought I'd drop this comment into the High Tide thread, but I'm not changing my mind about the plant I have being High Tide. I'll be keeping an eye open for an alternate name for the LEDERHOSEN that I have, which is not the same as the HL pictures. It is not Leather Sheen either. Maybe it is a real Lederhosen responding to the much hotter/humid environment and longer growing season of zone 9a. I'll be sure to take a copious number of pictures this year. Wouldn't it be funny if the "different" looking hostas I received in that initial order should have been picked out by a new employee of PDN from Tony Avent's hybridizing laboratory, not from the retail group? And I get strange one-of-a-kind hosta no one ever saw before? And me so totally clueless I had no idea what happened to my order. Stranger things have happened in the real world....See MoreSpecial Day!!!
Comments (12)Thanks Everyone!!! Well, went to the meeting and there was a young gal there with 60days clean, came up to me after the meeting and asked me for my phone number!! She's only 20yrs old. We have a saying in NA that you can only keep what you have, by giving it away. I liken my disease of addiction to diabetes, every day you need your medicine and need to pay attention to doing the things that keep you well, you stop doing those things...you get sick again. Well, my leg is in a fancy air cast and I'm not to walk on it yet. I've wiped out twice realllly bad on my crutches, had to go get ex-rays of my other knee!! So have kept to the wheelchair(thankfull we live in a rancher with lam floors!) Cindy is so great about seeing me every week and calling etc.. I see the doc next week and find out what's next. It only hurts if I have my foot down for more than a 1/2hr at a time, so I prop it up a lot. My friend Sandy brought me her recliner rocker for me to recoupe in so I sit ther with my tv tray beside me and am working on a gazing ball right now. I plan to do my mushroom as soon as I can. It's hard not to miss my usual freedom of hittin' the thrift and building supply stores for more goodies, but it has been less money spent!!! As soon as I can get around better I'm buying a heavy duty blade for my taurus saw and 2 tile blades for tile work and start givin er!!! Again, thank you all for your sweet comments as I feel if it wasn't for NA, I'd not have a life(breathin, in..and out..)but God wanted me to have a rich and abundant life(ya'll)!!! Jane...See MoreSue_va
7 years ago
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