It's a baby boy Phal stuartiana!!!!! Yeah!!!!

[ChasWG]

Thanks Ryan! I'll have to look for that book.
I keep checking on the plant to see if the blooms are ready to pop, but nothing yet. What do they say about a watched pot never boils...?

BTW, I got the new pine tree in the ground tonight. It looks great and it should do well in it's new home. Up the hill from the very large Austrian pine.
Spring is here and I'm already planting stuff. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!
This Friday evening at Tagawa's is their annual Wine and Roses event. I went over there today to get some orchid stuff and took a look see at the roses. HOLY FREAKING COW! The temp in the green house is way up to make the roses bloom and the smell is out of this world. I love the smell of orchids, but get about 2500 fully in bloom roses in one room and nothing else stands a chance. What an amazing sight it is. Every color in the rainbow, but green. Very nice.

Hmmm... it's funny that I am attached to the slightly more fussy plants, orchids, African violets, roses, hmmmm...

[Pilot]

Originally Posted by ChasWG

Thanks Ryan! I'll have to look for that book.
I keep checking on the plant to see if the blooms are ready to pop, but nothing yet. What do they say about a watched pot never boils...?

BTW, I got the new pine tree in the ground tonight. It looks great and it should do well in it's new home. Up the hill from the very large Austrian pine.
Spring is here and I'm already planting stuff. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!
This Friday evening at Tagawa's is their annual Wine and Roses event. I went over there today to get some orchid stuff and took a look see at the roses. HOLY FREAKING COW! The temp in the green house is way up to make the roses bloom and the smell is out of this world. I love the smell of orchids, but get about 2500 fully in bloom roses in one room and nothing else stands a chance. What an amazing sight it is. Every color in the rainbow, but green. Very nice.

Hmmm... it's funny that I am attached to the slightly more fussy plants, orchids, African violets, roses, hmmmm...

I have an African violet, too!!! I bought it ages ago and I neglected it so badly and over fertilized it and killed the main plant- only one leaf left and I stuck it in water and it has grown to produce two more plants. Seriously, this thing should have died ages ago and now that I have a light shelf set up, it's days away from blooming. Would you like a leaf for propagation? I think its a very deep purple color-- though it may have mutated at this point, having been so badly abused. How many do you have?

[ChasWG]

We have two violets. A pink and white one and the very dark purple one as well. They are really my wifes plants. I bought them for her a couple of weeks ago. She has had them for years, but we lost that last of them a few years back when my son knocked it off a table and it just never recovered. So we are trying them again. So far, so good. I need to get some fertilizer for them. Maybe I'll pick that up Friday night at the rose event.