I haven't posted in a long time again. I need to write a book! Besides all of us worldwide coping with a pandemic, I fell and broke my wrist right after my lavender began to bloom. That may not sound like much, but if you put one hand on your other forearm and then wiggle the fingers of the hand of that forearm, you will feel all the muscles and tendons moving in your arm because all of that action goes through your wrist.
So when you break your wrist, you can't use your hand for a long time. It takes months just to be able to make a fist again. Which meant that for the first time ever, I had to watch my lavender crop bloom and then turn brown as I could not weave.
Meanwhile, the streptocarpus kept blooming and delighting me with new flowers non-stop! They even made it through record heat waves with barely any damage to their leaves or flowers. Since my goal is to re-introduce them as outdoor blooming shade plants, I had planted as many as I could into one gallon pots and they are all out in the morning sunshine everyday.
Now I hope to select more to pot up and keep as stock plants. It is going to be SO difficult to decide which ones to keep for making leaf cuttings. And it is going to take time to figure out which ones look too much like ones that are already named, which names have already been taken, etc.
I have been posting all the new flowers to Instragram on a weekly basis. I have sort of taken over the hashtag for floweringshadeplants, not so much the hastag for floweringhouseplants but they are there as well as the one for streptocarpus and capeprimrose. I hope you'll take a look.
And if you are an aficionado of streptocarpus and think any of my posts look like a named variety you are familiar with, please let me know!
Although I shall be tempted to declare many favorites as I go along, it really is hard to decide.
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