Wow! What great colors.

Dale Martens did a great job with this one. It's one of the most intensely colored streps I have - and I have over 100 varieties so that's saying something.

I love this flower Dale has such nice hybrids. Lol now I want one of these. And man those photos are wonderful.

John

I had a wonderful compliment from Dale Martens today on these photos. She said this was a really hard one to photograph but that I had really nailed it. Talk about making my day! ;)

Very cool Hyn

Those are beautiful! Love it!

I went to the African Violet Club of Greater Atlanta's Spring Show & Sale this past Saturday, May 13th. I'm pleased to report that every plant I entered won a blue ribbon (based on points earned, not competing against one another) and the five streptocarpus on the left side here are all mine. Heartland's Aussie Butterflies is on the far right front, and behind it is my Little Kan that took Best in Class. Feathered Silk and Valor in the center with Falling Stars tucked in behind, and UA Solar Eclipse to the right. Yes, those are seed pods from some of my hybridizing on the Feathered Silk in the front, center. I'd have liked for them to have a lot more blooms for a show but it was a small show, and very late for my plants to still be in flower. They had a lot more blooms a few weeks ago.

That HAB is magnificent! That is one I'd like to own someday.

I have a few leaf pots. I'm going to list them to my Etsy shop shortly. Otherwise I'll have more in the autumn. I'm not sure if I have any larger babies left but I still have a couple of flats of streps to break down. I want all of these extras out of here by early June for my move. That plant looks way better now it has opened three more flowers facing the other side that was without blooms at the show.

How is Etsy moving for you? I was looking into it - and seems it is cheaper for sellers than ebay - but it is significantly slower.

Not slow for me. I've done more than a grand in sales in the past 48 hours. You do need to advertise but I post on Facebook and have links on Pinterest, here, etc. It's a struggle for me to keep up with demand. I repot and sort through plants as fast as I can.

Hyn so glad to see a pix of Heartland's Aussie Butterflies!!!!! I have a baby one of these!!!! So happy to see how beautiful it is going to bloom! Yay! Thanks again! Rosie

You are so welcome, Rosie. The only draw back with it so far is that BOTH the male and female reproductive parts on my plant are deformed so there is no pollen and the stigmas are not generally receptive. Drat.

Now back to packing! I have about 30 boxes of plants yet to pack for Tuesday shipping.

Awww,,,well maybe with the next flower??? Rosie

Well no, I think Dale Martens said that this one was a hybridizer's dud but I still wanted to try. I'll keep checking it now and then in the event I get lucky but even if I get any pollen, it may pass those annoying traits down to it's offspring too.

It's like hybrid double flowers. They are often without pollen because the stamens and anthers fuse and deform to form the inner layer of petals (or sometimes it's the female parts that do, it varies). At any rate, hybrid double flowers are especially difficult to pollinate and have an annoying tendency to also lack fertility, or produce very little seed. Luckily a lot of double flowers will sometimes throw a single and then a hybridizer can jump on that if they get lucky and there's viability.

Wow,,,rocket science, I will just admire whatever shape they are! You know me,,,I love 'em all!!!!! Rosie