oh man, that's a bad news to me 🙈. This is first bloom, will see

I hope she stays. It's a lovely amount of verigation in the petals.

Gorgeous. The second picture looks like pictures of Ma's Happily Ever After from the Violet Barn. I know about the sporting. I had Playful Spectrum for several years before it turned to almost solid pink.

Good to know these species don't last forever. If you produce a sucker from the same plant, will it bloom true again?

It may...best idea grow a number and pick the best one(s).

I think it might. Actually, I have a number of fantasy bloom plants that retained their fantasy for the several years I’ve had them, so don’t give up hope. There are others as well, at least so far.

Donna’s Crushed Amethyst from Fancy Bloomers

Beach Party from Lyndon Lyon

Optical Illusion:

Nice plants Judy, yours or from web?

Thanks! Those are mine. I only post photos of my own plants, unless I’m looking for something I don’t have.

Very nice...and nicely done (that's umm why I asked), most snapshots aren't as well displayed.

Thanks. I happen to have a light box that I got for taking photos of my pottery. I found it works well for my violets.

Jersey sugar plums in one of my mugs.

Is it possible that fantasy and chimera AVs might grow better as multiple heads? So if one one head reverts perhaps the others remain, providing a mechanism for purging heads that revert to solid, and maintaining true to type. Admittedly I don't grow either type at this time, but what I have read suggests that they change performance in part based changes in their environment. From what I read here, they are less stable than other types requiring pretty intense rogueing. I have neither time nor space to test this; so it is only a suggestion and take it with whatever grain of salt is appropriate.

I think it is an interesting idea.