Hmm! can't edit my misspelling Kohleria

It is one of John Boggan's hybrids. "Silver Feather" . or one close related.

I just remembered "Rattlesnake".

Here we go! Rattlesnake it is.

You just keep mixing Kohleria and Cholera... It is your subconscience trying to say something...

Kohleria is a disease? Well maybe not, but I grew my first four this past year from someone that volunteered to send me some. The flowers are interesting, but I think the tall rank foliage is too much for the relatively small flowers.

I guess it is an an acquired taste. Some of them have good size bright flowers.

My pot of Kohleria has has about ten stems and the tallest is now about ten inches high. I think they, like other of my plants look better in a group. There are now seven blooms and they are small but each of the stems has at least five buds. It is just getting started in its blooming cycle. It probably gets more comments from non-plant growing friends than my other plants. The bottom leaves don't seem to last long and it does get ratty looking before getting put in the garage when it has finished blooming.

Some growers prefer large flowers, some - a lot of small ones. "Rattlesnake" has medium size flowers, leaves are very attractuve - so all together - veined leaves, sturdy plant and a smatter of bright blossoms makes it a good choice. I still think the best of John Boggan - is " Silver Feather".

If you want a managable size plant - root the 3-5 blooming tips - 3-4 internodes - they do root easily - a week under the dome - and they are good - never even stop blooming. Because if you start them from rhizomes - they grow to their full size before they show flowers.

There are compact varieties - Peridots Kitlope - is probably the best, Peridots Mango Martini, Florida Freckles, Canticle - this one is very rare oldie, another oldie that is minuscule - 'Flirt' - blossoms are small but very bright. 'Brazil Gem' - is superb - small flowers but a truckload of them.

So , Mr DB - which ones do you grow? I bet you can make a swap to something else through this group.

i.

There is never too much photographic spam.

Do you have the names?

I *should* have...but I'm not good at that (and I didn't keep the paper labels nor transcribe to something more permanent)..so, no, they're noids unless someone recognizes them.

I know that I saw them, but i do not have them in my collection - for the same reason. No drama.

I am not going to remove the rhizomes from the pot at the end of the growing season ever again.