Just beautiful! I love Machala!!!

Beautiful! Where did you obtain your Machala bulb from?

I just love Mrs. Garfield,....so delicate and dainty....hope to find one next year..........your Machala is gorgeous!! I've never seen one with the stripes so clear, most of the pictures I've seen of Machala are more of a solid color, I like yours better, and I really like the stripes, it reminds me of Rio Regro, another one I would love to have!

Donna

I am yet to decide whether I take these extremely beautiful flowers for the cybister "Machala".
On the other hand it IS obviously one "DIP" and if I were in your place then I would absolutely try to crossbred it with "Mrs. Garfield" - in both directions, in order to enhance the probabilty of SUCCESS.

Gorgeous flowers & photos!! I can't wait to see the blooms on my Mrs Garfield one day.

Thank you Dooli for a nice comment :-)

Lizalily, I got my Machala bulb from e-Bay. Sometimes, some 'to-die for' bulbs are available there :-)

Donna, Mrs Garfield is growing so well in my climate. You should try to grow one, it is as you said, so delicate and pretty. As for Machala, I guess, the tropical heat brings out the stripes and the dots in its blooms.

Sir Hans, my Machala bloomed a week too early to receive Mrs Garfield pollens. However, today, I receive another Machala bulb from Royal Colors (as a replacement for a bulb that I received rotten last season). Royal Colors is so full of pleasant surprise! So, I hope to dap Mrs Garfield pollens when this new Machala bulb blooms.

Jan, one fine day, your Mrs Garfield bulb will give you beauriful blooms as I pretty sure the climate there is suitable for it to grow.

Till then, warm regards,

Hatta

Hello everybody,

Just a couple pictures to show my confused 'Mrs Garfield' bloom for your viewing pleasure. This is the 4tj bloom from the same scape as the pictures above.

Notice that this bloom has 7 petals instead of the usual 6!

Before it was fully opened ...
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And fully opened ...
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Thanks for looking!

Hatta

Hatta,Well, isn't that a pretty little thing!! Looks like it just wants to take wing and just fly away....beautiful!
Donna