| @copyright Brad Walker, August 31, 2010 |
| Hello to everyone visting my site, my name is Brad and I really like to grow plants. I grow wildflowers, bedding plants and my current hobby gesneriads, 90% in the family Sinningia. I do grow several other species in the gesneriad family including streptocarpus, steptocarpella, diastema, vanhouttea, saintpaulia (african violets), achimenes, seemania, niphea, phinea, kohleria, episcia, smithiantha, chirita and a few other misc. species. All of the pictures below are of plants blooming for the first time for me. The top plant 1011 is a really nice large blooming plant, below it is a sibling, large and showy but not quite as spectacular. On the bottom is the first of my S. richii to bloom, I was impressed by the yellow color, but the size is small. The white flowered version is just budding out to bloom. |
| Bradsgarden is my website of the plants that I grow at my house in Smithville, TN. |
| Above - 1011{(S. eumorpha x piresiana) x conspicua} |
| Above - 1010 {(S. eumorpha x piresiana) x conspicua} |
| Above - Sinningia richii 'Robson Lopes' |
| Above - S. richii - the flower is twice as large as the flowers on 'Robson Lopes' , it is stark white with yellow lines in the throat. |
| Above - (901 x 'Ugly Girl') has nice white blooms with burgundy lines. |
| Above 3 photos - 712 {(eumorpha x iarae) x [eumorpha x (leucotricha x reitzii)]} this one opened July 31, 2010 and I was shocked at how pink and intense the colors came through. It has the look of the [eumorpha x (leucotricha x reitzii)] parent, but the iarae cross intensified the color in the throat. If it holds up well I may name this one. |
| Above - Mauro Peixoto's cross of S. eumorpha x sp. 'Florianopolis' |
| Above - 'Seminole' x 'Anthony Wayne' |
| Above - Kohleria hirsuta |
| Above - S. 'Beulah Mae' |
| Above and below - (S. 'Iris Walker' x 'Cherry Delight') S. 'Cherry Delight' is Richard Holder's full calyx double. First blooms, compact plant. |