Comments on The Indoor Garden(er): Gesneriads On Broadway

Petrocosmea barbata and Chirita tamiana<...

2011-09-21T22:07:31.363-04:00
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.

Hah! I had on my hand-written list "bedraggle...

2011-09-21T21:18:46.840-04:00
Hah! 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).

Here's a photo of the two.

One of those should be a Petrocosmea, I think. Did...

2011-09-21T20:44:37.357-04:00
One of those should be a Petrocosmea, I think. Did I really have a small-leaved rosettish Chirita?