Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing

nice.

Very nice collection!

Lovely pictures to go with my morning coffee. Thank you for posting them.
Raven

Oh so pretty!

oh my gosh, the KERMIT is awesome! i'm new to the AV section of gardenweb, and i just bought an african violet this weekend (i finally caved, i've been waiting on leaves from my step-grandmother for ever!) and seeing the options that there are makes me soooooo jealous. I'm an iris lover and it looks like i may have found my house plant of choice!

but seriously, KERMIT is an AV that i think i will always want/love, lucky you eeeoeleven!

wow! these are gorgeous! thanks for posting!! i just found this forum and i'm soo excited, i have a couple of african violets that just do fantastic. i had no idea though that there were soo many varieties, i want to go googling now! that snow jewel is soo cool! and i guess my main plant that always blooms must be something like a scarlet, it looks very similar. i'm going to have research that more now too!

what kind of camera do you have? Even using the macro setting, I can't get a good clear close up like the pics you have posted here. Awesome!

Mary

Thank you all! Mary, my camera is a Canon Power Shot SD1200IS. It has a very good macro feature, but I took these on auto and it configured the macro itself.

Your plants are beautiously gorgeous! I don't come here often b/c there are not many pics, and I love the pics.I have a Cannon Powershot A590 IS and cannot get close-ups like that on my manual settings w/macro--or I just have not figured it out yet. Perhaps I've been wasting my time trying, gonna try the auto setting and see what happens.

Hi eeeoeleven,
Your pictures are great, however, I think you need more variety in colors. Most of the blooms are pastel colors and tend to be pinkish. I would luv to see some really bright reds and violets and blues added to your collection.
Fred in NJ

Hi Fred,

I have some of those that just aren't blooming yet. I have:

Tomorrow's Royalty - which is bright violet with a deep blue edge and white fringe
Mellow Magic - Bright Coral with deep blue fantasy splash
Harmony's Dancing Queen - Deep Lavender with dark purple fantasy and green frilly edge.

As far as reds go... I don't like them much! I've come very close to buying a Tomahawk plant, but I just don't know! Scandal is the closest to a red I've gotten so far!

Bless you!

I thought I was the holder of the "Most Reds Thrown Out" title!

When I put up the T12 shelf, I put 2 Gro-Lux bulbs in it and suddenly my reds were very red. That seemed like a cheaper solution than buying a lot of not-really-red plants ;-)

I've been considering Pow Wow. I have Vampire's Kiss and Mac's Southern Springtime but Mac's is kind of iffy. It's not red but I have a Holtkamp that is bi-colored fuchsia and white. On a good day, it looks like Rhapsodie Cora and is an attention grabber.

I liked Witch Doctor but it's not really red. I was very enthused about Rob's Love Bite but it stopped growing well for me. There were two of his that did that - Love Bite and Shadow Magic. I started them over from leaves, etc., but it didn't help.

(Of course, I've enjoyed the lovely photos. It looked like I had all pinks, etc., simply because my camera wouldn't do blue right.)

Diana in PA

Gorgeous photos!