Abutilon Hunnington's Pink

Bought this one this Spring. Been blooming all Summer. The flowers look so delicate.
:) Donna

Donna,

Your flowering maple is beautiful! I've never saw one that color. I have one that is similar. I'll post a pic. I am going to try get some cuttings to root this fall. Would you like to do a trade?

Kathy

Sure, I might have some cuttings started already. I think I also have the var. kind of the one you posted which I don't have.
:) Donna

This is another variety that I have. It is 4 foot tall now.

Kathy

Ooooh, I don't have that one either. Here is another one that I have.
:) Donna

This one is called Souvenir De Bonn

This message was edited Aug 18, 2005 8:35 PM

Oh, I like that one! I have a different variegated one that has spotted leaves with peach flowers. I'll have to get a pic tomorrow it's too dark now. How many different kinds of flowering maples to you have?

Kathy

I've been looking for the spotted one with the peach flowers. I have two more different ones. Here is the picture of the one of them. I'll have to take a picture of the other one tomorrow.
:) Donna

This one is Thompsonii Pictum


This message was edited Aug 18, 2005 8:34 PM

Never saw that kind before. I'll get you a picture of mine tomorrow. I have to go for today. I need to get up at 5am for work tomorrow.

Kathy

Nighty, night!
:) Donna

Hi Donna,

I'm back. Here's a few more pictures of other flowering maples that I have.

Another Flowering Maple. This is one that I let go dormant last winter. My husband thought it was dead and asked me to through it out. I'm glad that I didn't listen.

Here is the vareigated one. The leaves are a little more yellow than they are supposed to be. I think that I overwatered it.

Here is Abutilon Savitzii. This one is definitely a slow grower.
:) Donna

I forgot the name of this one, but it's variegated and has the same flower like your first picture above.

This is another one I overwintered that I lost the tag for.

The one that you overwintered and your DH thought was dead, I also overwintered a pink one that constantly bloomed all winter in the basement.

The first and third picture are ones I don't have. What is the variegated viney plant in the background? Is it a var. pandora vine?

Email me.
:) Donna

Beautiful photos and pretty plants with nice blooms.
Kathy you have bought the plants or start from seeds?
Kaleem

Most of the plants I have purchased. I do have some seed and I'm going to start some in the spring. A couple of flowering maples that I have have never given me seed pods. I guess they can only be started by cuttings.

Donna I sent you a Dmail

Hello! I want to participate too!!! I only got one picture right now, but I hope to take more this weekend. This one is Abutilon megapotamicum, hummingbirds surely love them, me too!

There is something funny about variegated abutilon, those with yellow ''freckles''. Actually, that's an harmless virus that give them this spectacular appearance. I wonder if it could be transmitted by bugs...

Zarcanat,

I like your flowering maple. Is this one an upright plant or a trailer? Mine is a trailer - good for hanging baskets or.

kathy

Zarcanat, yours looks like Kathy's. I posted the variegated one like that.
:) Donna

Kathy, it is a trailer, what I like about this one is that the twigs and branches get brown-black so it is even prettier than the regular abutilon cultivars. Like Donna said, it might be the same as yours. I heard that there is a cultivar of that species that have flowers completely red, should be beautiful!

zarcanat,

What other typed of flowering maples do you have? Would sure like to see pictures!

Does anyone know of any good sources of them. I was searching on the internet. I didn't find much but didn't spend too much time looking either. I found most of mine one at a time at different nurseries all over Michigan.

Here is my other flowering maple.
I doo have Dame Vanessa (yellow) and a pink cutting and a red cutting but they still are not rooted.

http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Current/page1.html
http://www.anniesannuals.com/signs/list/parent_redirect.htm

zarcanat,

How large do your plants get. I have 2 plants that get 3-5 fool tall. I also have one that is already taller that me. I'm not sure how tall it'll get. The others that I have are smaller varieties that only get about a 1 foot tall.

I do not know for the cuttings but the orange one pictured gets very tall (taller than me too), I had it for years.

Now that you mention it, I do remember a peach colored one that I have getting quite tall last year. I never overwinter this one since a local nursery sells this one quite reasonble every year. I wish they had other varieties too.

Here's some other nice places too:
http://www.kartuz.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=KG&Category_Code=7RFPA

http://www.logees.com/products.asp?dept=6

Thanks zarcanat. I think that I'll be ordering a couple of catalogs.

I just thought that I'd share this photo with you guys. I had been flowering so nice since it cooled down a bit. I really like the two-tone flowers.

I found a very interesting place in British Columbia:
https://www.highspeedplus.com/~harborcrest/tropicalsab.html

Oups, not so great place

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This message was edited Sep 30, 2005 4:16 PM

Did you check the Garden Dog about this place. The last time I had checked it hadn't showed that great.
:) Donna

OHHHHHHH GEEZZZZZZ !!! Please forget that I said that, I will edit my mail ;-((((

Many of the Arbutlin came from the Huntington Garden, the hybridizer was Jack Catlin. They can be started from seed. That is how Jack got the new hybrids. Then we took the cuttings. New Hybrids must be started from seed. Norma

Didn't know that Norma. Cool!
:) Donna

Kathy, which variety is that one that your husband wanted you to throw out? I love that!

It's actually 3 different plants planted in the same pot. The yellow one is the one that I have gotten seed from.

The one that is yellow at the base and salmony in the big part... It looks like one type.