Captain Romance Calla

My Return to the Garden

| Flower Roberts

All my preparations for me absence paid off. Only a few plants died and nothing was eaten. Hooray! I am very pleased to learn I can leave for a week without a disaster.

Most of the calla lilies are up and budding or blooming. I am still waiting for the yellow to show. Hot Chocolate is my most requested calla. It is tall and hardy. I love the clear spots on the leaves.

Another popular calla is Captain Romance. Its buds have an interesting gradation of color that is not as visible in the blooms.

Captain Romance is shorter than Hot Chocolate.

I will also show off the first hibiscus bloom.

This red flower has a beautiful back as well as face.

More blooms to come. I am tired of typing with a bandage in my fingertip.

FLOW BACK HOME

Captain Romance Loved the Rain

| Flower Roberts

Captain Romance liked the rain. It needed water, that was plain.

‘Captain Romance’ calla/ Zantedeschia

This plant was looking thirsty and limp. Now it has plumped up. Callas need a lot of moisture.

Raindrops add to the flower portrait. Dew does, too. Water adds sparkle and shine.

I love how the coloration and venation highlight the shape of its spathe. They remind me of champagne flutes.

More callas to come.

FLOW

Crazy for Callas

| Flower Roberts

These Zantedeschias are stealing the show away from the daylilies this week.

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Calla is the Greek word for beautiful.  They are living up to their name.

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The bloom is really a spathe(bract)

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and spadix with tiny blooms.

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The point on the spathe holds a drop of dew in the morning.

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The variegation of the ‘Hot Chocolate’ leaves looks silver and is really clear spots in the leaves.

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The colors of the spathe of ‘Captain Romance’ shift from green to pink.

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These are not really lilies and they don’t come from bulbs.

Their round rhizomes are poisonous, so be careful where you store and plant them.

I always take a few in over the winter, but leave most of them out.  I am in zone 7.IMG_0335

Follow the FLOWER.