lblanchard | (no subject)

All my Flower Show photos are now edited and uploaded to Flickr. I'm uploading both edited and unedited versions of the keepers (plus some identifying placard images that I didn't edit) to Google Drive for the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society to download.

I have way too many images. My instinct is to say oooh shiny and take pictures by the gazillions. I suspect that I've taken slight variations on the same image on successive days, so the next step is to sort the edited images by exhibitor and cull. That should keep me happily occupied until the Macy's Flower Show opens on Sunday. How nice that there are only two weeks between the two. Here's the link to the whole set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lblanchard/sets/72157641677227683/

My own personal Flower Show -- Hippeastrum trader joe x gervase -- ended in disappointment. The fourth bloom was a mutant, and so slow to open that the first bloom had started to wither before the fourth had unfurled its deformed petals. Perhaps it will be a better performer next year. After the bulb has had a chance to rest and regain its size and strength I will put it in its own pot to give it ample lebensraum. Its pollen parent is looking odd this year, too, with huge spathe leaves towering above and not protecting the developing buds. Perhaps the unheated Anderson House was a bit too cold for these guys this past winter.