great pictures, Gill. Great to hear your voice again. Hope all is well in the midlands. Bill

Hi Bill, yes I have been a bit quiet of late, got baby grandson here for 2 weeks as our 3 plus partners are in your country, Florida to be exact. They return on Sunday, phew I'm exhausted, LOL! but we are both enjoying the time spent with him.
My plumies are starting to wake up at last but they really do need some sun, at least I got them through the winter again.
Things are OK here thanks, APART from this darned awful weather, nothing but rain, still having to have fire on in evenings...and it's almost June!! Having some luck now with DR's so just 'trying' to help out another grower.
Take care, Gill.

Many thanks again Gill. Think you have given me enough info to get started. Great pictures...So happy that a friend gave me the Desert Rose, love making friends from all over the world on this site...Will keep you posted. As mentioned before, we live in Texas, sixty miles from the Gulf of Mexico in "hurricane alley" and have experienced two really bad storms, one in 05 and again in 08. We lost forty, eighty year old trees between the both storms. Many neighbors had homes crushed when their's fell. We escaped much house damage, but just the thought of the season starting again has everyone's anxiety level up..Nice to focus on my Desert Rose...So appreiate your help....Will keep checking in..

hello, Gill, i enjoyed your pictures, too. they look very healthy.
sue

Gill those are so cute. I'm finally getting blooms on one of the ones I started from seed.

Hi there Sue and Karyn, great to see you posting about DR's. I think they are amazing plants, I really hope I can get one to flower at some point for me!! These guys have really been through the mill to get to this stage, earlier in the year I thought they were gonners, but the heated propagator bought them back from the brink of death. I started some others from seed a few weeks back but only got 3 to germinate this time....don't know what I was playing at as I later realised I'd had them too wet and too hot so they just rotted away....drat, a silly mistake to make.
Karyn, how old are your seedlings that are blooming? These in the pics above were sown on 10th Feb '08. Would love to see some pics of yours if poss? Your new seedling with the variegated leaves looks really interesting...keep us posted on its progress please?
Regards, Gill.