I'm new to this forum and just wanted to make a short introduction to myself. I'm a university student in the north-east of Germany and the little space my shared flat has to offer is taken over by my Hippeastrum plants (and a few other ones). I started crossing by pollinating my regular white one with my parent's red one when I was still living with them. From that on I fell into these splendid plants and even though my windowsill space is overcrowded I'm still ordering new ones. I just wanted to show you a snapshot of my plants before they moved in their winter residence ;)

On top there's my cross (I guess it's something like 'Christmas Gift' x 'Royal Velvet') from May 2007, I hope they're ready to bloom!
The unlabled is 'Sydney', in the black pot there's (you might have guessed it) 'Minerva'

And I wanted to ask you a question regarding my H. reticulatum: I got it via Ebay from Thailand and it hasn't moved since a month. Here are two pictures:
Fungus on the base plate
Bulb at the moment in a honey jar ...
What can I do to make it advance? I've raised the temperature in my room but still it doesn't to anything ...

By now, I'm sure you know my feelings on mediums, so I won't go there.

I will tell you how I would have handled the bulb in question, though. I would have cleaned off the basal plate, and dusted it with an anti-fungal powder. Then, I would have planted it in a small clay pot with a porous medium. (Those are just my preferences, however.)

Some bulbs simply take a while to get moving above the soil line, and will spend time growing a good root system first. I can't see the sides of the glass container in the photograph, so I'm not sure what the roots look like... they may be growing into their new home, and this may be where the bulb is putting its energy right now.

It also could be that the bulb is resting. I have a tiny Hadeco Peach Blossom bulb that rested for an entire year before deciding to grow its first leaf. It currently has two beautiful green leaves, but it took forever to get growing! I almost gave up on it!

Other than being patient, I'm not sure what you can do to hurry it along. I assume it's being fed? In which case, I'd say, just be patient... if it has decent roots, it should begin growing soon. The bulb, itself, looks healthy... and if the fungus is taken care of, then it's only a matter of time before leaves appear.

This type of question is more Maria's field... or perhaps another of our esteemed, more experienced growers can help... anyone?

Again... welcome! Stick around... the forum is about to get busy and very colorful, as members begin to show their newest bulbs and lovely blooms!

Welcome!

In my experience with these retics, if you acquire them at this season (cold) like your pictured one, no leaves and roots, they will take a while to show growth (leaves). This does not mean that they are not developing though. I did the very same thing last year and acquired some of these bulbs. They did nothing for me the whole winter but their bulbs stayed healthy and firm. They would grow some roots now but would grow leaves when the temperature gets warmer and the air more humid (spring). Once they are established and grown for a season, they will be fine and will handle the cold dry winter months better. My established reticulatums are actually still awake and growing leaves right now.

I would recommend very careful watering at this stage of your reticulatum bulb and try to keep in the warmest place in your growing area. Water a little bit more and fertilize once leaf growth shows. Reticulatums here in my growing conditions like lesser watering (dry-ish roots)but humid conditions (some moisture in leaves...slight misting helps). Kinda hard to provide in the Northern climate but not impossible. Good luck!!!

By the way, you have a very good amaryllis forum in Germany named "Exoten"(?). I tried to go and join them there once but had a hard time translating. I have a few German amaryllis friends that are members there. It would have been nice to chat with them in their amaryllis "home". If ever you get to visit that forum, please send my warmest "hello" to Hans Werner (moderator) and "Fishing Dentist".

Your hippeastrums are looking healthy and clean and so ready to go to their winter sleep. Good job!!!

Right, so i'll keep the temperature up (it'll cost me a more to heat the room up to ~20+°C, but should be better for myself too ... I tend to heat as little as possible)

I'll keep an eye out for fungicides, but I'm always a bit wary with chemicals. I grow most of my Hippeastrums in the room I'm also sleeping and working in. Till now I never had to use any kind of pesticides ...

I've been checking these forums for some time now and did often see some varieties here I didn't knew of before.
I try to approach the care of my plants with a more scientific point of view. I'm also doing lots of botany at the university (at the moment genetics, so my own crosses also serve to reconstruct Mendel's Laws ;) )

Thanks for the nice welcome and the quick replies! I have a lot of pictures of my blooms from this year, if you're interested?

Bottom heat usually helps with root growth, seed germination, and a myriad of other plant issues.

I keep a heating pad ready for use with seeds, cuttings, rooting, and twin scaling of bulbs. I bought mine for about $24 at Harbor Freight, but anywhere that sells seed starting equipment should have them.

And, yes! We're always interested in seeing bloom pictures! Please do share! :-)

Orange Sovereign in the bright afternoon light. Sadly the glitter didn't really made it on the photograph.
I got this Minerva bulblet from someone on the Exotenforum.
This double, I guess it was Nymph, was sent to me instead of Picotee. I don't like doubles at all, so I gave it away. The seller now sent me a replacement, hope that one turns out to be Picotee.
Sydney is my favourite red-striped one. My biggest bulb, it produced 11 leaves. I hope there will be more next year! It produced 3 scrapes! Here's a closeup.
I guess my favorite breed is Amputo. My 3 bulbs sit in one container an seemed to like it, One did produce 2 scrapes.
Also in a big community-pot, the small, multiple-flowering Supreme Garden. I especially like the green star in the center.

Those pots are actual hanging baskets, they're more or less a half sphere and work quite well for multiple bulbs.

It is so wonderful to see you here, and yes, betonkloz is translated to Concrete Block and my dear friend has been sharing private messages with me for a few years on the German forum.

Carl, I am so pleased that you have joined this forum!

Sooner or later, I will have more time to talk to you. I just received the news that my mother is dieing from pancreatic cancer. She is too ill from complications to let her know that.

It is so very wonderful to see you here!

I am sort of at a loss of words because of the other things in my life, but I am excited that you are here.

Thank you, Thank You, Thank YOU!

Stay and enjoy! Your English is superb!

Ann

I'm sorry to hear about your mother, I guess you've got a lot of things on your mind but plants and I'll sure keep you in my mind. I hope you're holding up well and I wish you all the best!

I enjoyed your photographs and what you are doing with your amaryllis! Keep up the good work and I hope to see you chatting with us often!

I started out on this list 3 years ago and now I have around 150 amaryllis and 60 seedlings I am raising. THere would be many more but I work on the plan of survival of the fittest. My goal is raising flowers for my cut flower business, a very small local one.

You deserve more than three, and I am sorry not to be able to visit your German forum as often. I miss that.

I guess that we all have to go through periods of our lives, where we feel that everything is out of our control.

But, somehow, we survive! It brings a smile to my face that you joined gardenweb and decided to contribute.

SO! YES! You deserve three thanks and many more!

Now, tell us more about your Amputo seedlings. I am curious because the translation from German to English on your home forum left me at a loss...

Ann

Carl, nice bulb that you have. And did I understand correctly that you have Amputo seedlings? That's one bulb I wasn't able to successfully cross. What did you cross it with? (and welcome, by the way) Alana

Carl, i looove your flower pictures. Simply gorgeous!

@Ann: Nothing special here. I didn't succeed in pollinating the Amputo with the varieties I wanted to cross. It was the last to flower and I didn't preserve most of the other pollen.
Luckily the Sydney emerged the third scrape at that time and was happy to receive the Amputo pollen! Of my Amputo x Sydney cross none of the seeds germinated. But I did sent some to "ty" from the Exotenforum and at his a few of the seeds did.
My Sydney x Ampute seedlings are doing fine but are the smallest.
Here are my crosses from this year, "weiße" is a friend's unnamed white one, which had very fine red lining (I guess because of the good feeding):

Carl, the heating pads I have were purchased along with seed starting flats. They came with a clear plastic cover, like a mini-greenhouse for seed germination. I imagine you could find one where ever plant and garden supplies are sold. The pad is the exact size of a flat, and I find them perfect for helping roots to grow, or for rooting cuttings, and for seed starting.

Any source of mild bottom heat would work, as long as it's not too warm, I think. The heating pads are rather convenient, though, and I'm glad I found them.

Poorly equipped garden sections are a problem here, too. If I can't find what I'm looking for at one of the stores, I usually look it up online. I don't like paying the shipping charges, but I suppose it can be worth it when it comes to the convenience of having things delivered right to my door!

Last winter, we set up a large seed starting area in the basement. I wanted at least one table to have a bottom heat source for starting picky seeds and some of the seedlings we had ordered, but I couldn't afford to buy a large table sized professional heating mat, like the ones used by large commercial greenhouse growers. So, we used a rigid heating mat designed for use in pig breeding operations. (I'm not sure what the right name for that would be.)

It's a large orange plastic item with heat coils running through it, and we attached it to a thermostat so we could adjust the heat. It worked out very well for our application, I'm happy to say. I think a heat mat designed for reptile tanks might work, as well... as long as the heat can be adjusted, and it's not too warm.

Interestingly enough, items from farming and/or the pet industry can be utilized in gardening, and be just what we need! Take the fir bark reptile bedding that I use as part of my medium mix... who would have thought that reptile bedding would be exactly what I needed? I certainly didn't!

Anyway, I wish you luck in locating a small heating pad... I will say that I'm glad I found one for my own use... it really seems to help with coaxing root growth in reluctant bulbs, and for seed germination.

Probably the easiest way to locate something unusual is to Google it... and then see where the results take you. Or, if you are at all handy, you could devise your own plant heat mat from one used for people... simply make sure you can adjust the heat, and make certain that a bit of moisture won't hurt it. The pharmacy and health industry will have heating pads... and I even think that some can be used as moist heat... although, I'm not sure of what temperature range one of those pads would have... they surely have a low setting, though. Or, you could devise a buffer between the actual pad and the bottom of the pots or flat.

All it takes is a little bit of imagination, and a real need for the item in question! :-)

The pine bark will hold a certain amount of moisture, but you will have to water more often than if you use a more water retentive medium. You can soak the pine chips over night, and then drain them, before mixing into medium, but it's not entirely necessary.

You will also want to feed a weak solution of liquid fertilizer often, too. I feed at about half, or less, strength every time I water.

The nice thing is that you have total control over all moisture and feed. There will be little to no soil collapse, so the medium will last a long time.

If you want more moisture retention, you can add turface or vermiculite to your mix... these are both more retentive than just the perlite and pine bark.

Here's a website on Bonsai that discusses the different ingredients of inorganic mediums... it also lists the different brand names for other countries, so you may find something you can utilize. Read the entire page... it has listings and pictures of product packaging from almost every country around the world, including Germany.

That's a really great idea! Necessity is the mother of invention, they say!

Emerald with a bulblet

Papilio pushing a flower stake

Looking good!

All my other plants will be in a friends basement till January ... any idea which cross would be interesting then?

You could always save some of the pollen from your flowers, then pollinate when the others come into bloom. I have sent pollen to others, and I have read about several people who save their pollen for later use. I haven't done so, myself, but I know it's possible. A search within the forum will net plenty of results on how to save and store it.

My Emerald, received last year, had some rot issues... I was forced to perform major surgery on it in order to save its life. I performed cuttage on the bulb, and was lucky enough to have several tiny bulblets grow from the pieces. It will be quite some time before I am able to enjoy a bloom, but that's ok... at least I saved it!

I think you will greatly enjoy both your Emerald and your Papillio! They are both gorgeous flowers!

It seems that Papillio has two distinct bulb forms, each from different growers. We discussed it quite a while ago... and it was determined that there is a round bulb version, and an elongated version. I have an elongated bulb.

Papillio is the bulb sitting on the top shelf, right at the corner. Notice the shape...

Here's the bulb when I first received it...

And here it is in bloom...

Yours seems to be the more rounded version. Mine was purchased through Royal Colors, and I think we had talked about the fact that others who got their bulbs through Royal Colors also had a more elongated bulb shape.

Anyway... it's really quite interesting! I'm very excited to see how your flowers look when open! I think there was a slight variation between the blooms of the two different shaped bulbs... if memory serves correctly.

Awaiting your blooms with much anticipation!

I got pollen from a friend (my cross Minerva x "weiße" Isn't this an intriguing white one? Any idea what's it's name? [gotta love the garden gnome in their neighbors yard ^^]) and have stored pollen, best thing to do is just to leave it exposed so it can dry out well. But I have no other Diploid which could receive the papilio pollen ...

@Manfred: Oh, of course I know him.

@Mariava: That I can do now, yes! ;)

Use the search engine of the forum on "Papilio". You will find loads of information since way back in 2006. Sir Hans (Haweha) frequently comes to this forum during those earlier years. He has taught us a lot in here specially about papilios. I really wish he'd drop by once in a while.

Hmmmmm...Maybe I'd try to visit Exoten again and surprise Haweha and Dorschi!

Haweha also wrote a lot on the German forum, he wrote a compendium for the care of Hippeastrum with a special paragraph for the species H. papilio. It's well to read and easier for me in German. I do think I read some of his posts back then here regarding the possibilities to cross with papilio and so on, which I found via google search.

It's so interesting to see slight signs of a flower's genetic history... and to be able to put a name to some of the ancestors, even though they may only be guesses.

Yes, Sir Hans is greatly missed... he taught us a lot about certain aspects of the Hippeastrum. I miss seeing photos of his blooms!

I would love to know the name of this variety, but when I compare this photograph with pictures online of simple whites ones I have problems to see the slight differences but to also include the normal variations that every flower shows.

I know, while Haweha is still active on the Exotenforum I haven't seen one of his superb crosses recently.

Red Pearl or any other variety that's that dark I'd love to give a try. I especially love this one but I'll find a way to add it to my collection. So any really dark cross would be great.

Lipstick, Siberia and Masai are crosses I never found in any international shop. I especially like the three of them since they're having so few red marks and would be an interesting pollinator for papilio. Cideea, I guess chances are low that you have one of these particular ones and from the other red-white I would try Ambience but Haweha allready did this, so I won't go there. I'd love to create something completely new ;)
Oh, I forgot, x jonsonii would be great too! There is so much variety in this cross that the outcome would be quite mixed.

I'd love to try yellow ones and pink ones ... perhaps Starlet, Candy Floss, Yellow Goddess
Oh and Yumemitai would be superb.

Oh god, you got me started. And yes, I'd love to struggle through tons of pics!

My album:

I find it interesting what you say about jonsonii, perhaps that's why I feel so confused about which flower actually is jonsonii. I do need to do some more research.

I have more pics, but no time to look for them now...

I hope the ones that I posted helps. Johnsonii is quite special!

Ann

Cindee, I'm not that comfortable posting my real name online, but Ann already did it, I'm called Carl. I guess my first name won't hurt ...
I do like all of these varieties but since it will just take a couple of weeks before papilio opens it's flowers (I hope it hurries, I won't be here over the winter holidays) it would be a bit hasty now. Tanks again for your offer, I'd love to share in future with you!
But if I now ask for pollen from you, you're then hurrying to get it to me before the 17th. December (don't know how long a letter takes from America to Europe), then papilio's flower has to be open ... and if I don't succeed in pollinating one of the blooms it was all for nothing.
First thing I'll do is to store papilio's pollen and try it the other way round ... perhaps even the reticulatum decides to flower somewhen next year ...

OK Carl, there, that's easier to see. Me, I just put it all out there! Lol Anyway, if you wish pollen or seeds from me anytime, just let me know. I have a pap that has been to young to Bloom thus far. Hopefully it will get the itch this winter.

Those are beautiful pictures of H. Johnsonii... I love the clumps around that tree! I keep wishing that I could grow them out in the gardens... what a sight that would be! But, they are relegated to indoor shelves... oh well.

Larry and I have been known on the internet practically since its inception... mainly through our old kennel websites, bulletin boards, and forums... so, it's really no big deal to us! We don't do online banking, or anything that a criminal could use, so it doesn't really matter, I suppose! If someone is looking for us, they'll find us anyway!

I'm very interested to see how Carl's Papillio looks! I want to compare it to mine and others that have been posted. I, too, have a couple of young Papillio bulbs... too young to bloom, though. I'm hoping for flowers within the next couple of years.

Now again I am stuck because I don't know how to express myself, but I hope that you will understand my intentions either way. I'm really sorry, I know that you've been through a lot lately and I wish you all the strength you need right now. I have seen pictures of your mothers plants that you posted on the exotenforum. I hope that these plants will flower for you in the future to remind you of your mother and to help you in your grief ...
Just now the last of the hundreds of flowers on my Schlumbergera-cactus are opening. It's a cutling from a huge plant that was in my grandmothers possession. It's been in our family for a long time. It's a nice reminder and it made my smile to see it in full bloom.

Cindee, I just pollinate so few that I can take care of the seedlings ... I've said it like a thousand times now, I just run out of space (Ok, everybody here probably does, but with three windows I'm pretty limited).

Jodik: Perhaps we could share papilio pollenand check whether we can obtain papilio seed this way. But maybe mine isn't papilio at all!

Thank you for your information betonklotz (how about BK?). I really enjoy trying to learn more, though I know I've got a long way to go yet. Your Schlumbergera is lovely - and I can imagine hundreds of flowers on it. I think your shaping is really effective and shows the flowers off differently to a 'cascade'. I know those as 'Zygo' cactus.

Jodik, I've just had another look at your Papilio (I think it's a great photo, by the way) and mine has slightly different patterns. I must now check the bulb shape.

Second... your beautiful Schlumbergera looks like a flowering bonsai tree! It's really gorgeous! I love the trunk, and the pot its planted in... it's perfect!

If my Papillio blooms this spring, I will save and store the pollen. I can then send it to you, if you like. I don't know if it will bloom this coming spring... it didn't bloom this past one. But if it does, I would be happy to share its pollen!

"Short on space" is a term I'm very familiar with... although, I don't let it stop me from shoving just one more bulb in! I did some shuffling of pots today, so my Christmas cactus could have a cooler place next to a window. Tomorrow, I plan to move a few resting bulbs from upper shelves to lower shelves... and to re-pot some young seedlings into hanging baskets. I have no choice but to go up! I have plenty of space for hanging baskets!

Once again... that's a lovely cacti bonsai! The flowers are so pretty... but it's the plant form I really like!

The Schlumbergera has seen rougher times, I guess just now I am treating it right. I want to take more off from the sides so that it can grow in height. It's a really artificial habitus but it also reduces the space the plant need on the windowsill. When the cacti are exposed to a lot of light they turn red-ish which is also nice.

Tanks for the compliments on my English. I like the language a lot and I try to watch every American and British movie in English. Here in Germany everything is synchronized, mostly really well but I still prefer the original. I know my English is not perfect and when I'm writing I'm trying to improve and mostly work with an online dictionary in another window opened to use different vocabulary. If I do grammatical mistakes please point them out, that'll help me a lot! I now also have some lectures and seminars in English and working with English scientific texts will be more and more important in the future.

If I'll find the right hanging basket, some of my plants will also go up! At least one for each window in my room.
Once my papilio's opened I can send you pollen so when yours decides to flower we will have a proof that they're not clones!

I've been thinking of using orchid baskets and an orchid type of medium for a couple of bulbs... mainly my two young Papillio bulbs, and maybe a cybister. A couple of species types grow more as epiphytes in their natural habitat, so why not try it? I think it sounds interesting!

I'll post a photo of my Christmas cactus sometime later today... then you can see what rough looks like! This poor little guy is in sad shape right now! I hope the cooler windowsill will help. I'd like to see it bloom some day!

I still looking for a hanging basked that's got a ... ok, here my english fails, I have no idea whether there's a word for it. Directly translated from German it would be "underpot", where the water from the pot can float in, I know you wrote it once, saying that you're using plastic ones with your clay pots because they're cheaper ...
Ok, and I need such a thing attached to the hanging basket, otherwise I wouldn't be able to water from below! ;)

Oh, what I wanted to write was that I've just been to the supermarket where they sold the Sonatini (I wrote about them in holantinas thread). Some of them had red marks on the stem and the bulb felt squashy ... I picked the last three ones that where in an acceptable condition:

Their label said they where all white but I also saw a red-blooming one with a white label ... I put the half-litre malt beer bottle there for a size comparison. You can see how tiny the scrapes are.

I'm not sure if I should repot them now straight away ...

Those scapes look very tall and thin! I'm wondering if they might be a bit stretched from lack of proper light... though, I know you will provide them with a much better environment than they previously had!

Depending on the current medium they're in, and how wet they are... well, I'd let them dry out quite a bit before watering again, and I think I'd leave them alone until after they bloom. But once they are finished, I would get them out of the pots and soil they're in, and re-pot them into better circumstances.

Would you believe, I took two years of Spanish and two of French, and I barely remember any of it? Yep! At the time, I needed the credits to graduate, and taking a language was considered easy credits! I do use a bit of Spanish now and then, but the French is all but forgotten!

Here is my Christmas cactus... it's in a 4" pot, and it's quite pathetic looking!

It's supposed to have white flowers, and it was in bud when I got it... the buds all dropped when I got it home, and it's been going downhill ever since. I'm surprised it has survived this long, at all! Hopefully, moving it to a cooler spot will help.

I did repot them since I couldn't endure the bad looks they had. The bulbs weren't as firm as they should be and their roots where jammed into these small pots so that I could pull most of them as a chunk, there where some red spots but nothing alarming. I put them in a nice claypot with the rest of the reptile bedding-perlite mix and added gravel and Seramis. The later one should reserve some more water.

You cactus doesn't look to bad, just keep him on a somewhat light spot and don't overwater ...

Well, if you're speaking some Spanish, thats good! But with French you probably made the same experience as I did, never used it anymore and there it goes ...

I took a look around at our local stores for those plastic saucers that attach to hanging baskets, but I couldn't find any... I think they might have put them away for the winter season. They'll make an appearance in spring, I'm sure, when the annuals and hanging baskets are displayed for sale.

You could always devise your own attached saucers... I'm not sure exactly how you'd attach them, but if you could find the thin plastic pot saucers, I'm sure something could be made up.

I buy them by the dozens... they're only about .29 cents apiece, and they help protect the wooden windowsills from moisture. Plus, they're a bit deeper than the clay saucers usually sold.

I like the composition on the pictures, sadly my camera's got some problem with green colours. I tried my best but you can see a lot of "picture noise" on the stems and the clay pot (yes, I went for clay ... my mother likes them better, she's a classy lady ;) )

Your Mom is smart, as well as classy! It's a nice pot, and I think it compliments the bulbs well.

There are just different ways to approach container gardening. I think I lean toward clay, in part, because it's a more natural product. Plastic is forever in our environment, and doesn't have the hydroscopic properties clay has.

And here, I thought I was complimenting your Mom! ;-)

But really, it is a lovely addition to the bulbs... it's a good look.

But, I wanted to get back to the Christmas-cactus. I wrote that it was again time to trim it. And just now I was in a mood for hacking and slashing. See for yourself:

They're really all green! What a luck, I thought at least the last one could be a red one. But now they'll look really precious in that pot.
Sadly I can only hand a picture of them blooming to my mum.

On the other hand, they do require trimming if you want to maintain a certain shape and look! Please post photos when it blooms again... I'm interested in seeing how it looks now, with flowers!

Nice buds on the green Hippi! Yep... it sure is green! :-)

The bud shape sure looks like mine did.

I will have to up load shots of my first seedlings to bloom, also used a white, to give you an idea on what you might get.

Hi, Ann!

Hi! Hans!

Bye, all y'all!

Rebecca

So you asked for my crosses: The first picture shown, there they are. I still don't know the name but I took pollen from a dark red one (my moms) and put it on my white. This plant is still at my parents, when I moved out I just took my seedlings with me. I'm really looking forward to next year when they get out of the cellar and I hopefully get some blooms!

This one was nearly solid white:

Hope these will give you an idea on what you might expect, since your red was a solid color you may or may not get any patterning. I had grown out 22 seedlings, kept only those I liked the best and sent the rest to my GF in GA to plant out in her garden where I am sure they will do really well. Three years from seed to first bloom when pot grown under fluorescent lights.

For my white x red-crosses I predict solid red blooms with green throats, but we'll see!

I'm anxious to see which of them will bloom for me again and how many leaves they will produce this time.
First I'll leave them on the heated windowsill, once the first leaf has emerged they'll be watered slightly from below. When the flowering bud has emerged fully from the bulb they'll again get a good gulp.

All right, I'm off to the friends cellar, another friend of mine helps me with his car. They all think I'm crazy but that's nothing new ;)

Us gardeners are not the crazy ones... it's those who don't know the relaxing wonders of working with Mother Earth that are crazy! ;-)

Ah yes, relaxing it is. But now that they're all back on my windowsills, I can't keep my hands off them. I have to force myself to leave them alone for now or else I'll care them to death :D

Yes... if I'm not careful, I baby them to death, too! I keep telling myself to have patience... just watch them. :-)

I'm so happy that my very first seedlings had, as it seems, enough time to build up flower stakes. It's clearly to see for #01, #04, #07 and #13. I guess most of the other ones will soon show their first scrapes too but two or so of them couldn't compete against the other ones after the last repotting, they developed very few leaves but perhaps even that was still enough.

The whole name I've given them is wxr#01 ... - wxr#14 (white x red). I'll keep this name for future pictures but will open a new thread for my 2010-blooms.
So than this thread can finally rest in the depth of this forum ;)
The next one to bloom will be Picotee!