Recent content by veblen

When fully open and flatter, what size are these flowers?

Any chance of getting a side shot of the C.violacea including the plant? I'd like to see how tall the plant is; the flowers completely obscure it in these shots (and they are lovely flowers, to be sure!)

No, it has bloomed three times exactly the same. It's healthy, just njot as robust as the other one. Actually Sandy, as Freud said, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. This is just a nice tranlienianum, a division of a collected plant (though technically art.prop. since the growths that...

Here is the other one which i think has better color; it is not a very hardy plant of course!

This is a regular bloomer and a much hardier plant than others like helenae, etc. Good color in this one though II like the one with the green dot better. Wish i could afford the album one on eBay. >sigh<

The auction said they had been shipped from China. One is welcome to assume since that since the plants and business location are in the states that the plants came in legally with papers. There are several ways of looking at this. One is an idealistic view hoping that by a few people on a...