Flowering in October 2009

[Regelian]

Cohan,

I purchased it in bloom without any support and the new scapes are growing straight, but follow the light.  It seems to want to create this effect, but with side lighting, I suspect it will do the hard lean, still in a bunch.  naturally, it was grown in a greenhouse with overhead lighting.  As you can see, it is extremely floriferous.

[cohan]

Cohan,

I purchased it in bloom without any support and the new scapes are growing straight, but follow the light.  It seems to want to create this effect, but with side lighting, I suspect it will do the hard lean, still in a bunch.  naturally, it was grown in a greenhouse with overhead lighting.  As you can see, it is extremely floriferous.

as a windowsill grower, i know all about leaning plants....lol
hard to beat many of the gesneriads for great floral displays

[Anthony Darby]

Here's a little Viola sp. that was flowering in the mature sand dunes (Ca'n Picafort, Mallorca). Not as narrow leaved as the one I saw in southern Spain last year.

[Luc Gilgemyn]

A wee beauty Anthony !
I'm sure Gerd K. willl turn up with an ID ! 

[Hans A.]

Viola arborescens.

[Anthony Darby]

Thanks Hans. One of the decorative tubs on our way to the 'platja' had this four o'clock plant (Mirabilis jalapa) with three different coloured flowers (all of the same age, as they last less than 24 hours) on the same stem. (Not sure why my daughter's camera lens is so fuzzy?) The same plant had a flower split 50:50 yellow and pink earlier in the week, but it had closed by the time it took the pic the next morning.

[derekb]

 One from me,
 Spathoglottis pilcatta

[Gerdk]

Viola arborescens.

One of my favorite violets - fine pics, Anthony did you meet it in Mallorca?

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

Charming viola, Anthony.


Derek, what a bright yellow to your very smart Spathoglottis.... not a shade I much associate with orchids.... but I like it!
 Is the name actually S. plicata? 

[Anthony Darby]

Viola arborescens.

One of my favorite violets - fine pics, Anthony did you meet it in Mallorca?

Gerd

Alas, no. We got as far as Port de Pollensa, but that was by mistake, as the bus driver forgot to tell us when our stop for the 'Hidropark' was. We stayed on the bus and got off on the way back to Ca'n Picafort.

[Maggi Young]

Viola arborescens.

One of my favorite violets - fine pics, Anthony did you meet it in Mallorca?

Gerd

Alas, no. We got as far as Port de Pollensa, but that was by mistake, as the bus driver forgot to tell us when our stop for the 'Hidropark' was. We stayed on the bus and got off on the way back to Ca'n Picafort.

I thought the viola was from your recent holiday.... if not, then I'm puzzled..... again!

[gote]

Ian, I have several pots of Arum pictum, but although the tubers multiply, I have only flowered it once.

Before the summer I show my pupils a stem of cotton bolls bought for £2.50 in IKEA. Needless to say, they though it was fake and couldn't be convinced that cotton came from a plant. I removed one boll, extracted the seeds and planted them. One plant is now flowering in the classroom.

I am amazed. That quickly! Is this an annual? I thought cotton grew as a shrub with much slower throughput.
Cheers
Göte

[Anthony Darby]

Viola arborescens.

One of my favorite violets - fine pics, Anthony did you meet it in Mallorca?

Gerd

Alas, no. We got as far as Port de Pollensa, but that was by mistake, as the bus driver forgot to tell us when our stop for the 'Hidropark' was. We stayed on the bus and got off on the way back to Ca'n Picafort.

I thought the viola was from your recent holiday.... if not, then I'm puzzled..... again!

Sorry Maggi, a misunderstanding. Yes I found it in Mallorca. I didn't see the 'it' as I tend to associate 'meeting' with people not plants.

[derekb]

Charming viola, Anthony.


Derek, what a bright yellow to your very smart Spathoglottis.... not a shade I much associate with orchids.... but I like it!
 Is the name actually S. plicata? 

Maggi I am sure you are right but I looked it up before I posted and on one Orchid Forum it was spelt the other way.
Derek

[PaulM]

I have been growing Eryngium leavenworthii on several occasions, but the intense purple colored bracts and stems of this annual eryngo never cease to amaze me. It doesn't set seed for me here in Sweden, but it is easily raised by seed, and if sown early in the year the plants reach flowering in late September. It has kept on flowering in spite of temperatures below freezing. Would probably look good in dried arrangements too.

1) This first picture is from September when the plants started flowering
2) The plants are one stemmed and branch in the top half. This picture shows about half a dozen plants grown close together.
3) The stamens are cobalt blue and the bracts are positioned both below and above the cylindrical umbel.
4)....I'm out of words !