Unlabeled Yellow Feathery With Purple Veins
Unlabeled Trailing Maroon, Red, Green Center
Unlabeled Russet Ruffled Leaves
Unlabeled Narrow Carefree Leaves With Maroon Center
Unlabeled Hot Pink, Cream, Green
Gold Lace
Beckwith’s Gem
Twist and Twirl: Multiple Personalities
The following plants are all “Twist and Twirl.” A few came from different greenhouses. But some sported on me and reverted and changed and turned completely strange, like the one below with a nearly solid red/magenta and simultaneously lime green, all on one stem. I’ve seen them in greenhouses where they are completely green…no variegated…
Baby Kongs
Last summer we discovered that a Mosaic Kong at some point had flowered and gone to seed in its pot. The mother plant had died, but had left us with a million Baby Kongs. We planted them and tried to overwinter them, but I must admit I was bad and didn’t take care of them…
Grouping Like Plants
With all the plants I have, I’ve found it’s easiest to group them together in like varieties, either by the producer’s trade name or by color, so I know where they are if I need them.
(Unlabeled Regular Oblong/Round magenta and black)
Chocolate Covered Cherry (Unlabeled Hot Pink Center, Green Margin)
I’m not positive of the name, but I ID’d it by finding very similar plants on the web.
Greenhousing In Rural Wisconsin Again: Points East
Last week, Stan and I went on a nursery tour of south central and south eastern Wisconsin. Wednesday took us northeast to the Marshall-Waterloo-Watertown area, where there is basically nothing. It was a nice ride however. I brought my ipad with me to help navigate. Waterloo is a black hole when it comes to 3G…
Versa Rose to Lime
Blush Center, Green Outer, Dark Margins. I think this one is called Rose to Lime, however it did not come with a a specific ID tag, just generic (Versa Mix)