Elaine asks: "I thought at first it might be a shrub, but it is a very large hanging basket, right? Is that a white Achimenes down below it? My white ones are really wimpy."
Yes, a 12" wire coconut fiber lined basket. The basket itself isn't large, the plants just do that. Yes, that's a white Achimenes below it. You can see another white one hanging behind the purple unknown in the other post. When you mean wimpy, are you meaning as a growing plant or the bloom? I've been growing that white since 1998 and it's prolific on increasing the number of rhizomes - why there are now two baskets of them. The bloom, though, is more sensitive to high temps and the duration of bloom only runs about 6 weeks. I've thought I need to find a better white, but never have. It's a heavy bloomer when it is blooming. I just have to look at it in the morning or afternoon to avoid seeing the blooms that wilt in the heat.
Photo of the white Achimenes 'Gary' taken in 2010.
