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Crown of Thorns 'Golden Gem'

 

     If you search for Gary's Blog, you will find that Gary's Specialty Plants ranks one position higher than Gary Vaynerchuk, Gary V --- The wine guy.

     How is that possible?  He is world famous.

     I am world famous, too, just nobody knows it.

Thai Resort

Thai Resort

 

         This picture could be on the front of a travel brochure for some exotic place.

          Fortunately for me I took this picture, and I stayed in one of these villas in Southwest Thailand.

Why write?

                                                                     Cactus arms

                "I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say"

Flannery O'Connor -- Writer

                         "If you can't write it down, you don't know what you're talking about"

Gary  ---  Blog writer for 13 years.

Sunset

Sunset in Thailand

                             Why must we go halfway around the World to see the sunset?

Sinningia 'Arkansas Empress' are everywhere.

Sinningia 'Arkansas Empress' -- Single stem


How can this not be a successful flowering houseplant?

Or better yet, a ubiquitous Spring plant for patio planters?

 

Sinningia 'Arkansas Empress' has come to light

Sinningia 'Arkansas Empress' by Dr Jon Lindstrom

 

            Sinningia ‘Arkansas Empress’ is a magnificent flowering plant when grown well.

 

            This salmon flowered Sinningia, an F1 hybrid by the late Dr Jon Lindstrom of the University of Arkansas, has many flowers in a terminal cluster.  It then expands into a second whorl of flowers.

 

            This exceptional plant has never been grown commercially.  It’s sterile, so it makes no seed.  Propagation is limited to side-shoot tip cuttings, unless tissue culture could multiply it.

 

            How could it be sold if quantities could be had?

 

            It is a stand-alone specimen plant that could be a premium gift plant for Mother’s Day.   If a continuous supply of small plants were available, it could be flowered at any time of the year.

 

            It’s big enough and showy enough that it could be sold as a flowering plant in mixed Spring/Summer patio planters. 

Beginning as a plantlet with roots, the Sinningia will form a tuber under the finished foliage.  Although not many indoor gardeners want to deal with it, the tuber will resprout and the tuber will grow bigger each year.  My friend, Vicky, has kept hers in a patio planter for years to grow and flower each Summer.

 

‘Arkansas Empress’ will be expensive because of the tissue culture and long crop time, but these salmon flowers will be worth it.

 

This tissue culture project has started, and results could be seen next year.  Updates as they occur --- No guarantee.