Fingers crossed

Fingers crossed for the twelve leaves I bought and the Montreal AV Show. If I'm lucky soon I'll have eight more varieties in my collection:

• Lyon's Black Magic
• Lyndon Lyon Blue Dragon
• Vintage Wine
• Red Lantern
• Eskimo Kisses
• Le Blue Skirt
• Lyndon Lyon Candlelight Romance
• Rob's Slap Happy

Another year, another AV Show

This spring brought us another AV show in Montreal. A lot of enthusiastic people and a lot of beautiful violets. Congratulations to the winners and all the participants! Of course I didn't come home empty-handed. Enjoy the pictures!

Bye-bye babies!

Three of my babies arrived safe on the other side of the world after 24 hours of traveling in a cardboard box!

My first babies are blooming!!!

Things seem to go pretty well for my African violets and the nursery is getting bigger and bigger.
But the highlight of the month is that my first violet babies are blooming for the first time. I'm a very proud mom! They are my first propagation experiment. The mother leaf was put in a pot at the beginning of January, so the two babies are around 5 months old.

African Violet Show in Montreal, april 2013

A month has passed and I did not upload some of the pictures I took in April at the African Violet Show hosted here in Montreal. For me it was a premier, I have never seen one before. I went there hoping to buy some plants but unfortunately for me almost everything was already bought. They were still in the show but some happy owners were waiting for them. I took some pictures, I talked to a nice lady that is an expect in this tiny miracles, I bought six leaves and I almost registered in the Society...but shy as I am, I didn't.

Here are some of my favorite varieties, but I must confess that Lyon's Red Rocket was mon coup de coeur.

And the violets chosen by the Society as being the best:

Six new varieties in my collection

The leaves I bought yesterday at the African Violets Show in Montreal.

Sansoucy Coco


Ness' Orange Pekoe


Pueblo


Taffeta Blue


Lyon's Pirate's Treasure


Guelph's Dynamite

The Family is Getting Bigger

I was so decided not to buy violets until next weekend when I'll go the African Violets Show...but I failed. This week while I was coming back home from shopping I stepped into a flower shop and I saw some cute violets. It was so difficult cu decide if I should buy and which I should buy, but finally I took a decision. And so two more violets joined the family. Here they are:





Meanwhile I separated the the babies of my second leaf. They were not very big, but they looked very crowded. While I was separating them I realized that my guess was true: they were three, not just two.