Damn you good girl!!!! I'm just blown away by all this beauty.

If there is a list for when these are ready I'd sure like to sneak my name on it!
Patris

I dont think getting on the list is a problem, hwever getting them to your area is, could take years
Lisa beautifil plants but to slow growing for me. I have several that look like yours from Shigii.

Wow ! Speechless I am. No words for it.
David Shiigi,move over,Lisa's back in town! Bob

I'll take one of each! You need a theme? Are there 8 or 9 words in the Hawaiian language for sunset? You've got my brain stuck on vrieseas now...

Lisa...How about "Endless Love", it's deserved.

Kim, there isn't really even one good word for sunset, and I think "napo'o 'ana o ka la" is a bit of a mouthful for most people. Besides, they're more pink and purple than red or orange. Shiigi did a cross called 'Hawaiian Sunset', which is the other half of that really red one I made with the Arden cross. I was thinking about these today and I decided that if the brown one is 'Kona Coffee', then the red one should be 'Hawaiian Punch' (even though we don't really call it that here, just "fruit punch", but that doesn't quite have the same ring to it).

I want to name a really good one after my husband too, but not one that's part of a series. He's already got my best Cryptanthus, but I'd still like to do one of each of the other genera too. I have a couple of really nice Neos that need a name, but he vetoed them as "too pink". Gotta find something a little more macho I guess.

I've got that last batch all numbered and I keep thinking about just using the Hawaiian numbers as names. There is kind of a unity there since 1 through 9 all start with "E". Somehow I had it in my head that Shiigi had already used one or two of them, but I can't find any record of it, so maybe I'll email him and ask if those are up for grabs. He likes it when I give things Hawaiian names anyway because it helps establish our identity in the plant world. Only thing is they tend to get mangled by mainlanders, but I don't let that stop me! ;-)

As far as "getting on the list"-- well, these guys are about 6 years old now and some of them still haven't even pupped yet, although the ones that have will allow me to put the screwdriver into at least one of their number without panicking too much. I don't release the good stuff until I've got a small population built up, and Michael Kiehl and David Shiigi have both expressed a desire for these, so they are #1 and #2 on the list. So...... I estimate maybe another 5-10 years before Michael will have some to sell, but that's not really that long in dog years!

In the meantime, see if you can track down some of David's crosses, he's way ahead of me. Where did you get yours, diggety? Kim and gonzer can take a drive over to John Arden's. Talk about a candy store!

>In the meantime, see if you can track down some of David's crosses, he's way ahead of me. Where did you get yours, diggety? Kim and gonzer can take a drive over to John Arden's. Talk about a candy store!

Yes, John Arden's plants are really amazing--we saw them on the summer conference tour--I never knew vrieseas could look like his! Amazing.

Yes, I've been to Arden's a couple of times and got a good drool going each time! I got some nice ones from him, but of course the ones I really wanted (all the red ones) he wasn't ready to sell. I did make some mental notes on what parents he was using though, so all was not in vain!

BTW, David just emailed and said "go for it!" on the Hawaiian numeric sequence, so I think that's what I'll do with the last batch. Sorry guys, but I'm afraid you're going to have to remember the difference between Ekahi, Elua, Ekolu, Eha, Elima, Eono, Ehiku, Ewalu and Eiwa! I just hope *I* can remember which is which. ;-)

John had one that was almost black in color! My eyes popped out when I first saw it.