Yippee. Congrats!

Thanks cyn427! The flower color is different from the parent. Mine has somewhat light purple with outer white. I'll take pictures when bloom is wide open.

Definitely a plant I love to hate. Someday you'll have a beast like one of these! The blue one was planted as a 2 footer and is 6' tall after 3 seasons.

The pink one was 9' until I cut it back in late winter and it put out more and larger blooms...still bounced back to about 7'. Pics defintely don't do the plants justice.

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whaas,

I believe you about the height. The parent of the seedlings where I got it from was 6 ft in height. The bottom part though was just trunk.

Here are pictures taken today. I noticed they're very slow growers.

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That means, I should plan ahead how far I should plant them when I transplant them. Right now, they're only 2 ft apart which I know is too short.

Thanks for sharing your pics! Gives me an idea how they'll look after few years! :)

Are you enhancing those photos or is your camera that good?lol?

I have an Aphrodite as well, but it has a bunch of dieback this year. It still bounced back and bloomed somewhat but disappointing compared to the show I got last year.

Ahhh, Blue Satin, now that makes sense.

whaas, in what way am I enhancing? I do add a little saturation and lighten up a little if it's too dark and darken it if too light especially when sunny. Pictures are bad when taking during sunny times.

My camera is a Canon 50D dslr. The lens I used is Canon 70-200mm f/4.

Thanks mollydog!

Take a look at my pics...I have a cheap digital camera and its terrible!

Maybe, it just needs some cleaning. My blackberry takes nice shots before but wondered what happened, it became foggy. I decided to open the case and saw there were dust covering the 2mm diameter lens.