My African Violet won't bloom.? and pale blue bloom

My African Violet won't bloom.?

I recently got into growing African Violets. I am 17 years old and think I am doing everything right. I tried reading how to care for them and it doesnt seem to help me. Two months ago I bought an African Violet from Walmart, and it hasn't bloomed yet. I replanted and have been fertilizing it frequently. It has plenty of sunlight, and the leaves are growing very nicely and green. All it hasn't done since I got is bloom. Could I be fertilizing it too much? It also has had babies grow on the side of the "mother plant" and I have replanted those. They are doing very nicely too but again they aren't producing blooms either.


bloom best answer:

Answer by Goosegirl
Instead of sunlight, substitute fluorescence light. Also, only water them by putting water in a shallow dish, then setting the pot in the dish. The leaves hate to get wet.

bloom

pale blue bloom


the stamen of a blue bloom

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Are Lotus flowers Angiosperm? and Purple flower

Are Lotus flowers Angiosperm?

Are Lotus flowers Angiosperm?


flower best answer:

Answer by thatbiogeek
Yes. An angiosperm is a flowering plant. So yes, they flower, they're angiosperms.

flower

Purple flower


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Good gardening TV channels in the US? and garden sparkle

Good gardening TV channels in the US?

Anyone know of any good gardening oriented TV stations in the US?


Garden best answer:

Answer by shannon matthews
I'm asking the same question too!
It's Definitely not HGTV the 90% moving ,10% decorating it should be the House Network!

There are several gardening shows on a PBS station called Create.

Victory Garden (I miss the old version!)
Garden Smart

Check the DIY Network too....Sorry

Garden

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Japanese Garden, Seattle

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Please give me words that ends with "scence"? and Leucospermum reflexum var. luteum #6

Please give me words that ends with "scence"?

example:

coalescence
evanescence


can you give me more...?

thanks.


inflorescence best answer:

Answer by incomingfire
Essence

inflorescence

Leucospermum reflexum var. luteum #6


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Proteaceae - Western Cape Province, South Africa
Rocket Pincushion; Yellow Rocket Pincushion

Shown: Mature inflorescence with oldest flowers assuming the reflexed position--from which, the specific epithet is derived

"Leucospermum reflexum is a rounded, silvery grey-leaved shrub up to 4 m tall with either yellow (var. lutea) or deep orange to crimson (var. reflexum) flower heads which flower from spring to midsummer in the southern hemisphere (August to December). The more or less elliptic, simple leaves are covered with dense grey hairs. They are about 20-55 x 5-13 mm, with 2-3 glandular teeth at the tip. The rounded flower heads occur at the ends of the branches and are between 80-100 mm across.

"Each flower is tube-like and made up of velvety floral parts called the perianth segments on which the anthers are placed. These surround the long style which escapes from the tube to form the 'pin' and the perianths then curl away from it. Young flowers are curved to start with, and then bend back toward the stem as they mature. The common name of rocket pincushion is very apt because these downward bent styles look like the fiery tail of a rocket trailing behind it. For the same reason, the Afrikaans name perdekop is a good one as the mature flower head looks like a horse's head with its mane blowing back in the wind." (www.plantzafrica.com)

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Mt. Rainier Bloom Time? and Saguaro Cactus Blooms

Mt. Rainier Bloom Time?

Hi,

I want to know when is the best time in the year to visit Mt. Rainier in WA for the best spring bloom?

Thanks.


bloom best answer:

Answer by Tori
Usually toward the middle to end of July but it varies from one year to the next depending on when the snow melts. Unless the weather is extremely warm in June, it will probably be late July or early August this year.

bloom

Saguaro Cactus Blooms


Close-up of saguaro cactus blooms with a deep blue sky of the Arizona desert in the month of May. www.jamesinsogna.com/Nature/Flowers/15122760_6zd2Cb#!i=18... (C) 2012 - All Rights Reserved. 1-888-682-0122

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Are Lotus flowers Angiosperm? and Flowers - Mamiya rz67 + Ektar 100

Are Lotus flowers Angiosperm?

Are Lotus flowers Angiosperm?


flower best answer:

Answer by thatbiogeek
Yes. An angiosperm is a flowering plant. So yes, they flower, they're angiosperms.

flower

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Vegetable Garden Vs. Flower Garden? Bugs....? and Blue and White Garden Journals #18

Vegetable Garden Vs. Flower Garden? Bugs....?

Poll. What attracts more pests/bugs a Vegetable Garden or a Flower Garden? And why do you think/know this..


Garden best answer:

Answer by Barbados Chick
Actually, you should grow them together - intergrated pest management - thus providing a variety of ordors/ scents/ colours and so on that confuses the heck out of the bugs and reduces the likelyhood to have any stopping in for a meal.

Garden

Blue and White Garden Journals #18


Little Garden Journals, one in blue and one in white. Both approx. 5 x 7", filled with three hand-tied signatures of archival paper, ephemeria, vintage buttons and wallpaper, handmade and scrapbook papers, garden labels and journaling tags.

Fabric, a scrap of printed kraft paper and a lovely french label.

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