Mar. 11th, 2014

lblanchard: (swannfountain)
The Flower Show closed Sunday evening. I came home to a dinner of crockpot casserole, which I made earlier in the day, and two stiff whiskeys to console me and soothe my aching feet and knees. As I've written before, today I'm homesick for a place that no longer exists.

Yesterday and today have been spent digging out from under, which means doing laundry, drenching plants with mort-aux-fungus-gnats, catching up on my day job, and of course sorting through a couple thousand images to winnow down to a mere several hundred keepers. That is largely done and then I will start editing the last four days of show pictures before turning a copy over to the PR department and another copy to the archives.

Meanwhile my decidedly more modest personal flower show is starting -- at the moment there is exactly one hippeastrum in bloom, the maiden bloom from the Class of 2011a, Trader Joe x Gervase. It doesn't look like either parent, but it's a pretty thing, a very lovely clear red:

2014-03-09_0667hippeastrum

2014-03-09_0663hippeastrum
The flowers aren't particularly large -- maybe 5" across. There's some subtle ruffling of some of the tepals, part of its Trader Joe heritage. I don't know where the color comes from, but it's lovely. These photos are backlighted, making it look more orange-y than it actually is. I will have to shoot it again. The first flower began opening March 8.

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