Feb 17
More garden scenes!
1) Kumara plicatilis with Adenium obesum in the background.
2) Pinguicula ‘Johanna’
3) Sinningia iarae
4) Adenium obesum with even more flowers this week
5) Sea marigold seedling living outside.
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seen from United States
More garden scenes!
1) Kumara plicatilis with Adenium obesum in the background.
2) Pinguicula ‘Johanna’
3) Sinningia iarae
4) Adenium obesum with even more flowers this week
5) Sea marigold seedling living outside.
African violet ‘Nik - Magic Trail’ and Sinningia ‘Stone’s Gazelle’
Caudex beloved 💖💖💖
ID: Sinningia leucotricha (Brazilian Edelweiss)
Sinningia blooming, labeled Sinningia selovii but at least one person has suggested it’s a hybrid. I think it’s consistent with selovii but I’m not an expert by any means.
Sinningia leucotricha tuber. I couldn't resist taking this photo because it looks to me like the folks at the greenhouse are incubating an alien.
Sinningia canescens
Sinningia macropoda is blooming again. 32 year old tuber, grown from seed. . . . . . #gesneriaceae #gesneriadsofinstagram #houseplant #plantbreeding #floweringhouseplant #plantnerd #gesneriad #gesneriadsociety #caudiciform #sinningia https://www.instagram.com/p/CkYUxvFLqMi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Sinningia ‘Shelby’
Sinningia belongs to the Gesneriad Family, a group that is not well-represented at the Ruth Bancroft Garden, since so many of them are too tropical to be grown outdoors here in northern California. Happily, Sinningia ‘Shelby’ is tough enough to put up with our dips below freezing in the winter months, going dormant and then bursting forth from its large tuber again the following spring. The fuzzy pale pink tubular flowers are a delight, and produced abundantly during the summer months.
-Brian