African Violet growing.

This photo was taken in November when this little plantlet had flowered.

The plant is called Red Delicious. This is one of five leaves I have growing that I purchased at the African Violet Show in May.

Some more Plants

Some more of my flowering plants on my stand.


Tranquility

Party Time

Brigalow is very pretty white flower with variegated green and white foliage.

My Plants updated

This plant is called Ode to Beauty

Bottom half of my plant stand.

In earlier post I have shown you my plants after repotting now they have grown and are a beautiful display of flowers and have double there size.

This is the middle selve of my plant stand with four plants

African Violet Book

Back again with some important news about a new African Violet Book by Ruth Coulson that I purchased at the show yesterday as always its a great source of information on AV's.

Ruth's first book is out of print but this new book is just as good and has a CD with colourful photo's.

Here is Ruth's website where you can order her book called

" African Violets for Everyone" by Ruth Coulson 2008.

www.africanvioletsforeveryone.net

Beautiful colour photo's and lots of very good info for new and old growers.

More Flowering African Violets

It's been a while since my last post have been busy with life and my family and all my crafts.
Now to the reason for this post.
This weekend was The African Violet Association of Australia, Inc show at Burwood and I just had to go. There was all the most beautiful flowering plants on display and some Gesneriads as well.

As always I have to bring home some leaves to add to my collection. I was good only five this time but that can yield at lest 25 plantlets.


Here are the leaves potted up and ready to start growing. They are called:

Red DeliciousPlum Crazy Sport, Bluey, Ness Blueberry Putt & Rebels Spatter Kake.
I also purchase at the sales table a lovely Gesneriad for my outdoor garden area and that is Nematanthus. Golden West

These type of plants grow great in my shaded area at the back door.

Some of my flowering African Violets

Okie Easter Bunny: (Hybridised by Cockran)Semi Double pansy-pink/raspberry splatter edge--approx 12 flowers per stem. Red back plain slightly quilted foliage.

Corroboree is the name of this plant. Dark purple frilled pansy.Dark green, pointed, deeply scalloped foliage. Again flower darker then photo.

Corroboree has many long lasting blooms. Margaret Taylor Hybrid

This plant is called "Myrtle Grove" and has a beautiful dark purple flower. The flower is darker then this photo and has a white edge with white and green variegation on leaves as seen on the older leaves. In warmer weather the leaves lose the white colouring.

African Violets.

Here is an update on my AV plantlets and plants that I repotted last year.

The repotted plants are now flowering and the baby plantlets have more than double in size and some have beautiful flowers. Here is a photo of the plantlets now. The baby plants are now in three trays as they have out grown the two they were in.

Potted love

The pretty plant in the blue pot is called Tranquility and its in the photo with the three plants before it was repotted.

The blue trays have all my little repotted plantlets in them.

The photo of the stand with the black cats on top was taken 10 years ago when I had lots of plants and that stand is one of the largers ones. L 4'x W 2' x H 6'

African Violets are my second hobby if you have read my blog before you would have seen my plants and my little furry boy Darcy. The pretty plant in the pink pot is called Party Time.

Here is the result of a days repotting of my AV's last month on the 18th October. So here's some of my newly pot plants.

My DH is a electrican, thats why how I have a great lightstand for my AV's.

Five years ago I had a room full of these beautiful plants on three stands the other two much larger than this one.Time, family and my other craft's made me down size the growing of AV's.

My Other Hobby..

I love to grow plants and my favourite plant is African Violets which I have been growing for over 18 years. I grow them under lights and have had in the past three light stands which my Darcy is sitting on. My DH is a Electrician and that helps as he can wire up the wooden stands for me. Here are some photo's of my flowering plants and my little helper Darcy again.