After the Flower Show
Mar. 11th, 2014 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lblanchardThe 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:
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:
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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Date: 2014-03-11 09:15 pm (UTC)Mine is sprouting new leaves. After looking very sad and drooping and losing most of the old leaves it's sprouting again so we shall see if any flowers also sprout.
I hope the Flower Show is Done gloomies dispel soon.
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Date: 2014-03-12 02:26 am (UTC)The guy with the landscape that won #1 posted one last picture. One of the monarch butterflies from the butterfly experience escaped and was feeding on a flowering shrub in his exhibit at the very end of the show. I shared it on my FB page today.
New leaves on your hippeastrum is good.