I forgot POINT OF VIEW (Sanford Roberts 92), really a wonderful, bright red. I like SWAN POND, a white by Helen (?) Dougherty (1981). Also her (or Everett's ?) INDIAN RIPPLE (1997). Also the wonderful REGENCY HEIGHTS (1991). Also SNOWFLAKE EMPRESS (1995). Gossards. GREAT RED DRAGON (2006), VENUS FLYTRAP (2007); color not good for a couple of years but now looks just like his pictures. NEON FLAMINGO (2006). Are these too new for you? Pat Cochenour's MYSTIC PIZZA (2003) is another wonderful red. BATTLE OF ANTIETAM (Phil Adams 1995). How I wish I'd stocked up on more of his plants. I don't have enough of them. All by Dave Niswonger: COMET TRAIL (2001), FURNACES OF BABYLON (1998), MISSOURI GOLD (2006), ROCKET BLAST (2001). Bud Bennett's WILD CHERRY WINE (2004). Margo's BROWN WITCH (1999). MOUNTAIN LACE (Pryor 2003). Very pretty lavender. TOPGUNS DRIPPING GOLD (Bob Scott 2004). Which I saw in a convention garden and had to have. ROCK SOLID (Stamile 02). HIS SISTER PAM (Yost 2009). Too new to be old? It was slow to get going but is really superb. LAST MAN STANDING (Benz 00). A fabulous late. SWALLOW TAIL KITE (Hanson 1998). From Arthur Kroll, another former hybridizer who used to live locally, MARDI GRAS PARADE (1992) and OLE' OLE' (1995). MABOU (Mason 2003).

Where do you have it hanging ? That is a beautiful piece of work. My DIL did a series of three of herself years ago also. She has them hanging in their bathroom. They are lovely. c

I purchased from ricnfl... his cuttings were superb and very robust! I was so happy with the 4 vines he gave me! I was able to cut three of them to make 7 vines total. I let the ends dry, and placed them all in a tall narrow glass bowl with the ends just barely into the soilless bark mix I make. I misted them every other day, or so... in a somewhat bright, indirectly lit windowsill for two weeks, maybe the glass helped with humidity. After that I just went ahead and put them in small planters and crossed my fingers! One of the vines he included even had a peduncle that had a tiny bud try to flower... but I was just happy that I didn't lose any leaves! I've been misting them like normal and watering every 7-ish days. I'm going to give half to my sister, Rebecca. :)

My mom was not a plant person. Dad liked growing things but I was the indoor plant/gesneriad/any plant that caught my fancy person. AND I liked gardening also! Anything that involved dirt! I remember in the 1960's the dime stores all carried NAMED violets from many of the hybridizers we know today. Tinari, Lyon, Buell, Fredette, Holtcamp etc. and they only cost $1.00 !!!! I was in violet heaven. And variegated ones! Then they invented the trailers! Inky Pink was one of the first "speckled" (fantasy) violets! She was beautiful!!!! Streps for me didn't happen til the mid 1980's. I worked at an african violet greenhouse and that was the first time I saw them. I really liked them but I loved my violets more. So I never had one. It wasn't until I joined this forum that I rekindled my "like turned love" for them. And you know the rest!!! Ahhh,,,,I digress, but Hyn you led me right down Memory Lane again! I guess we all have our stories to tell. That would make a great new thread!!! How we discovered violets/gesneriad!!!! What do you think??? Rosie