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Hi Ruth, Bonni(x2) and List,

>>  This one has yellow bells and beige calyces <<
This sounds like an A.Milleri or a hybrid from it.  The Milleri hybrids
have much slimmer leaves than the upright varieties, toothed but not
usually as lobed as the hybridum plants;  the flowers are more bell shaped,
in shades of yellow or pale orange, and the calyxes vary between red and a
pale brown.  Maybe something like A.'Daffy'?  Though this plant has leaves
which are an exception to the rule, being slightly lobed.  There are so
many hybrids around, it's one of the reasons I seem to have amassed *34* of
them (I counted them yesterday!).  There is no such thing as not enough
room for another plant - is there? :-) Tell me it ain't true...

>> My next purchase will be an A. Linda Vista Peach. <<
This is a super plant...

>>  I train them as standards. <<
I just let mine grow I'm afraid!  Though growing them as standards seems
a really good idea, because then you can see the flowers, instead of
them getting lost at the bottom of the plant.  One of my 'rescues' is a
standard (pale pink, un-named), which I shall probably try to keep that way
once it has lost its yellow leaves (from growing in the dark without food).

>>  C. Victoria Gold Bell <<
This sounds like my kind of plant... but it hasn't appeared over here
yet:-(.

>>  my plumeria..nope, no blooms this year either.. <<
Me neither, though it has stayed clear of spider mite this year;  it's 3
years old now but I have my doubts whether it will ever bloom for me.

>> Does anyone know if Nematanthus is toxic <<
Couldn't find anything in any of my books to suggest that it might be;  but
my cats used to chew on mine and lived to chew other plants!

Must go and do some watering.
Liz (in Blairgowrie, Scotland. Where it's probably a good job we don't have
a Logee's...)
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