It was a really great experience for me--I was there most of Saturday and Sunday, volunteering, hanging out, learning about gesneriads, and, of course, buying plants!
I brought three entries to be judged: a monochrome print, a terrarium, and a dish garden. The plant material came from Kyoko's plants at Al's Orchid Greenhouse two weeks before the show (seeing as how I didn't have anything good enough from Saudi Arabia [and
the USDA read my blog and confiscated my plants last week, anyway, so it's a good time to have a plant show and sale--I needed to rebuild my collection]), and the photo was of Chirita 'Dreamtime' from earlier this year--grayscaled and cropped. It printed a lot less in focus than the digital version made it seem (I mean, I knew it was out of focus, but the print version was much worse).I got a "healthy but mislabeled plants and no design concept" for my dish garden, a second-place ribbon for my photo, and a third-place ribbon for my terrarium--as well as People's Choice, which came with a $25 gift certificate to Behnke's! I plan on posting my experiences on Petal Tones, NCAC's blog version of the monthly-ish newsletter I used to co-edit, so I won't go into too much detail about it--but I have a few fun stories to share!
But let's get to the new plants:
- 6 Saintpaulia:
- 'Newtown Grape Suzette'
- (#)'Northern Attitude' leaf
- 'Mystic Mermaid'
- Saintpaulia confusa
- (*)NOID, normal-size rosette, purple flowers with white edging, dark green almost purplish leaves
- (*)NOID, miniature rosette, purple flowers with white edging, purplish leaves
- Optimara 'Little Ottawa'
- (+)Columnea colombiana
- 2 Streptocarpus
- 'Bristol's Moose Stash'
- 'Christmas Morning'
- Achimenes 'Tiny Red'
- Smithicodonia 'Heartland's Joy'
- (+)Codonatanthus 'Sunset'
- (+)Nematanthus 'Cheerio'
- (+)Smithiantha 'Pat's Pet Donkey'
- 9 Chirita:
- (#)Small-leafed tight rosette-shaped Chirita from Kyoko (2 different ones)
- C. angustifolia (+)leaf and (#)plant
- 'Rachel'
- 'Gotham'
- 'Stardust' (+)leaf sections (2) and (#)leaves (4)
- C. sinensis
- (#)Hoya curtisii
- Sinningia defoliata
- (#)Umm... A vine of some sort. From one of the artistic displays. I need to ask Jim what it is.
- (#)A plant that looks like Ledebouria socialis but almost certainly isn't.
- (*)Mimosa pudica
- (*)Coprosma
- (*)Aeonium tabuliforme (Really doesn't look like tabuliforme, but that's what the label most likely meant to say. Definitely Aeoniumish; I don't necessarily care about the species yet.)
- (*)Basil
- (*)Lavender
- (*)Rosemary
- (*)Scilla siberica (15 bulbs)
- (*)Plectranthus glabratus
- (*)Mum (Behnke's had a sale: spend $25, get a free mum. Mine didn't fit in Kyoko's car [what with her two free mums!], so I gave it to Barbara, who had given me the 4 Chirita 'Stardust' leaves earlier)
(*) Bought from Behnke's using gift card/coupon/and a little bit of money
(+) Received during propagation workshop
(#) Received through various means (people sharing or just walking around asking "Does anyone want this long-ass-Latin-name?" during clean-up)
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One of those should be a Petrocosmea, I think. Did I really have a small-leaved rosettish Chirita?
ReplyDeleteHah! I had on my hand-written list "bedraggled Petrocosmea-looking Chirita," and the other is "less-Petrocosmea-looking Chirita." I think the bedraggled one is the Petrocosmea--the Chirita is in bloom and it was one that you had entered into the show (it's not really a tight rosette, but it's tiny, and tight-ish for what I'm used to seeing from Chirita).
ReplyDeleteHere's a photo of the two.
Petrocosmea barbata and Chirita tamiana! The latter from my infamous(?) "how not to sow seeds" demo(?), during which I grew some 400+ plants in a Chinese (actually Thai) takeout container.
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