Hey Kenny,
great blooms. You have quite a collection now. I cannot believe you belong to the club of 20, I do too, Mike Atkinson is the seller of Corona Surprise and he is my buddy. He sold me one recently. It has an inflo on the rooting plant.

George

Looking great Kenny!! I know what the "guess what it is" but I'll leave up to someone else to guess. Corona surprise is fantastic. You in the club are very lucky.

Mike

outstanding! roxanne

Great display, thanks for sharing! Nice adeniums, too :)

Kenny, that's awesome! So many great plumerias. Thanks for showing us the pics, just beautiful.

Oh my Kenny! I think I've looked at your blooms over and over for 20 minutes! My guess on the bloom......JL Golden Pagoda! Did I get it right? LOL. The colors your plumerias are throwing are spectacular! And I secretly wondered who won that special cutting on eBay. How exciting! I'm glad you got it.

Everything is beautiful...I'm visually overloaded :). Wow, just wow!

Nicole

I almost forgot...I'm drooling over your adeniums too:)

So beautiful Kenny!!! ALL of your plumerias are amazing!! Great pictures. You are one lucky person ;).

Chuy

Kenny....

Awesome!!!!

I'm still drooling and I'm so tired.. I'll be back and drool some more..

Lovely!!!

My guess.. GP too!!!

Take care,

All are beautiful...

Laura

WOW wow WOW! Great job over there Kenny! You have some really nice plumies, your pictures are fantastic! Isn't it fabulous to get some of that rain?! That doesn't happen to us in the summer too much, my plumies loved it!

Your blooms are all so pretty and the adeniums are gorgeous. Thank you for sharing.

Kasie

George,

Thank you! I don't want to know how many I have in my collection (I stopped counting after 150). I saw Mike's most recent listing on Corona Surprise. You got a great deal on it! Hopefully yours will root just as fast. It'd be interesting to see how they bloom in the Houston's humidity!

Mike, Rox, Brian, George (Simi), Chuy, and Kasie

Thanks! Yes I've gotten many blooms since June! I guess I've been slacking off in getting them posted. I'm glad I finally got off my lazy bum. :)

Emily

Thank you! and coming from the seedling queen out of all people! Yes after our 3-day deluge, my plumies seem to love it. Their leaves and trunks are so lush and firm! We haven't had this unusual weather in nearly a decade according to the meteorologists!

BTW I'm very curious to see your seedlings bloom as well. Can't wait for more picture updates!

Nicole and Laura,

Thank you! I'm glad my pictures are drool worthy LOL. I admit I had my doubt at first about buying Corona Surprise. Part of me was afraid I couldn't get it rooted after spending (cough) a pretty penny for such a cutting. I was able to breathe a sigh of relief when it rooted and put on a show for me.

You know, that "guess the JL flower" is actually JL Mosaic.

I thought maybe the streak in my picture would give it away! Anyway I learned it's a compact grower and have seen the branches before. They're so odd looking (kinda like one of those canopy branches). I tried rooting one last summer but didn't succeed so I thought I'd let them root one for me.

I received the occasional update from the JL rep. The last pic I got before it was bound for shipment was this:

When I opened that last bud, I detected a very pleasant scent so I'm 100% certain Mosaic is something I MUST have :)

Kenny

Man, I guessed wrong...LOL But thats a great one too. So hard to decide with so many gorgeous varieties!

Thank you for sharing them with us!

Great job Kenny! They all are beautiful! I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite. I love adenium and have some but try to keep it to just a few. Glad they don't have the wonderful smell so it's easier to not keep adding them.
Peg

Thanks a lot, Kenny. Here i was thinking that I had all that i needed, then you go and post pictures like Taj Mahal and Thai Jade. Now I have to look up their growth habits to see if i can possibly make room for one of them.

Those two stood out to me, but honestly, everything you have looks amazing.

Hi Peg,

Thank you! It is hard to pick a favorite for sure lol. That's why we're all addicts. Everything appeals to us.

I have about 5 adeniums and I think that's a good number to have but I keep wanting to get just one more. Maybe if I can find a good nursery in the states. These flowers don't have any scent but their blooms are spectacular to look at...and they stay compact!!

Allan,

Taj Mahal is a compact grower, you can see the inflo scars about 2" apart from each other. Thai Jade is a reliable bloomer, that's why I bought it, I think it's pretty compact too. Maybe Mike can tell you if there are any left at Southwood in Tulsa :)

Kenny

Thanks for the info Kenny. Which one of them would you say has the best smell?

Thai Jade has a medium floral scent. It's pleasant but not strong. I couldn't detect much of a scent on Taj Mahal until I picked the flower. This may sound a little odd but Taj Mahal smells a lot better after the blooms started fading (and even turning brown). I'm not kidding lol!

Kenny

Greaty pics, Kenny! Thanks for sharing.
Lonnie

Great pics! Thanks for sharing.
I love that Adenium. I need to go back to Josephs, I picked up a couple of new ones this spring and she told me they were getting in a big shipment. I`ve been trying to resist darn you!
Tally HO!

Thanks Lonnie!

Hi Tally! There's an adenium nursery in TX that sells Thai cultivars?? Oh! I need to know more. Lol maybe the plumeria train should be expanded to carry adenium too. We'd love to get these plants to OK from TX.

Kenny

This post was edited by k2fl on Tue, Jul 23, 13 at 16:18

LOVE the Waimea and Duke shots! Never knew they'd get so scarlet in the heat. And Corona Surprise--hubba, hubba!! That's a wonderful collection you have, Kenny.

Hey kenny

Hope you dont mind if i tag along in this topic. we got so many going now its hard to keep up.

here is my Desert sunrise with temps in the 90's and humidity in the 70-80 percent. Pretty flower, almost no scent. Mine tends to not branch at the inflo.

classic California sunset. its usually a bit more vibrant this time of year.

Wow the camera on my phone is awful. sorry about that. Ill try and get some better ones and replace these.

mike

Now I have Corona Surprise on my list....GGGRRR...trying to shorten the list, not lengthen it! roxanne

Mike, Laura says her DS is fragrant, and this morning I picked up a dropped semi-open bloom and it smelled lovely, so maybe there's hope? I'm wondering if the intense heat suppresses the scent.

Hi Mike,

Of course, feel free to contribute. Robert and Allan are also welcome to add their blooms here. We could use more bloom pictures. The more the merrier!

I think Mike and I have come to the conclusion that we both will have blooms probably well into the winter with our newly emerged inflos. The question should be whose collection will outlast the other haha.

Rox,

When you get these two different blooms on the same inflo, you'd see why it's called Corona Surprise :)

Hope you'll be the 21st person to own Corona Surprise.

Hi Jen,

Yes our heat really made the reds RED! I think by now you've known I'm an addict that has gone off the deep end lol.

Kenny

Hi Kenny !!

Beautiful flowers as always !!

I think I could hear you gasp when you saw that first root on the CS. Lol! That is how I felt with my Metallica!!! ;-)

Mike. Great blooms!! I will check on the branching on my tree when I get home. It doesn't seem to have any issues with the branching , I would have remembered it from last year. They all branch In two to three tips for me. The one that stayed a single tip when it bloomed?
...... Metallica!! Wouldn't you know it! arrrgghh

Hi Jen!! I'm glad you had some fragrance in your DS bloom!! ;-). Heat and humidity do play a large factor in the scent and coloration of the blooms. There is no doubt about that!! Hope you are well!!!

Thanks for the pics!!!

Take care,

Laura