Was a crummy/busy day yesterday but at least the yellow flowered Schlumergera has joined the S. truncata hybrid floral display!
All the different colours in one window definitely brings in the feeling of a warm tropical jungle into a day surrounded by a cold and abnormally mucky un-canadian winter day ❄🌺
Well, well, well, looks like I won’t have to buy a new red flowered Schlumbergera truncata hybrid after all; two of my seedlings from several years ago (conceived in a schlumbergera pollination tutorial) inherited their dead parent’s red colouration. When I saw the initial bud colour development I honestly thought they’d be pink flowered, what a pleasant surprise to be proven wrong.
Second specimen to start flowering; the pink Schlumbergera truncata hybrid. (Wish the photo quality was better on the first photo).
Smaller flowers than the other cultivars I own, it is nonetheless a charmer.
First of the Schlumbergeras to open up a flower! A nice white truncata hybrid, the cold in the farmhouse is causing its petals to develop a light pink blush 💕
Merr Christmas. Even one of my tiny little Schlumbergera seedlings is blooming this month for the occasion! Gotta say though that the Schlumbergera x buckleyi is killing it for standing out this year though, even if the flowers are smaller than the rest!
Schlumbergera truncata and Clivia minata did a rush of floral growth since their new room finally got heating for the winter. Funnily the S. truncatas I have began their flower openings around American Thanksgiving (making them for once live up to their common name of Thanksgiving Cactus, normally mine bloom around January), though the yellow flowered form took the lead/show of them all. Sadly there will not be any red Schlumbergera flowers this year as it was one of the few plants that perished from the previous neglect drought. I’m going to have to keep track of what other floral forms have perished before I begin to replace them. I’m nonetheless happy that at least the yellow form is doing well, especially when you consider the fact that it was once considered a far less vigorous colour form/hybrid in the indoor garden market.
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