#african violets

[greenhousechronicles]

Greenhouse lookin' gooood today.

#greenhouse #gardening #african violets #bonsai #plant propagation

[enchantedvale]

Purple spring💜💚🤍

#cottagecore #nature #naturecore #spring #spring aesthetic #flowercore #flowers #african violets #a simple life #everyday magic #nature lovers

[patriciastrike]

#african violets #houseplant #original photography

[pazzesco]

🎨 Françoise Gilot

Françoise Gilot - Portait of Muriel Berman with Flowers - 1975

Françoise Gilot - Tulips and Ballerina's Slippers - 1954

Françoise Gilot - Cornucopia - 2004

Françoise Gilot - 'Le vase fond rouge' (the vase has a red background)- 1958

Françoise Gilot - Sun's Fire - 2004

Françoise Gilot - African Violets - 1971

Françoise Gilot - Sunflowers with Fallen Petals - 1976

Françoise Gilot - Self-Portrait in Orange with Blue Necklace - "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman" - 1944

Françoise Gilot - Self-portrait at Work - 1946.

At 21, Gilot met Pablo Picasso, then 61. Picasso first saw Gilot in a restaurant in the spring of 1943, during the German occupation of France. Picasso painted La femme-fleur, and then his old friend Henri Matisse, who liked Gilot, announced that he would create a portrait of her, in which her body would be pale blue and her hair leaf green.

From 1943 to 1953, Gilot was the partner and artistic muse of Pablo Picasso, with whom she had two children, Claude and Paloma.

In 1969, Gilot was introduced to the American polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk. Their shared appreciation of architecture led to a brief courtship and a 1970 wedding in Paris. During their marriage, which lasted until Salk's death in 1995, the couple lived apart for half of every year as Gilot continued to paint in New York City, La Jolla, and Paris.

Once asked what it was in her that attracted such outstanding men, Gilot responded: "I think I am just as interesting as they. Lions mate with lions. They don't mate with mice."

Pablo Picasso - Portrait of Françoise Gilot -"Femme assise en costume vert" - (Woman sitting in green suit) - 1953

Her memoir first began to dismantle the glorious Picasso legend—more than hinting at his stupefying misogyny and obsessive envy of Matisse’s unflagging invention. She was the only women who ever left Picasso & he tried to ruin her career.

Of Picasso she said: “He did not destroy me because I was of the stuff that cannot be destroyed. I do not need another consciousness to define my own.”

Françoise Gilot - The Telephone Call - Self portrait with Claude and Paloma - 1952

In 1969, Gilot was introduced to the American polio vaccine pioneer Jonas Salk. Their shared appreciation of architecture led to a brief courtship and a 1970 wedding in Paris. During their marriage, which lasted until Salk's death in 1995, the couple lived apart for half of every year as Gilot continued to paint in New York City, La Jolla, and Paris.

Living Forest - 1977

Once asked what it was in her that attracted such outstanding men, Gilot responded: "I think I am just as interesting as they. Lions mate with lions. They don't mate with mice."

Françoise Gilot in her NY studio, 2011. Still painting everyday at the age of 90.

Françoise Gilot - 1921-2023

#art #paintings #lithograph #francoise gilot - #impressionist #tulips #ballerina's slippers #sunflowers #magic games #modern #vase #red background #le vase fond rouge #african violets #gilot #cornucopia #living forest #jonas salk #henri matisse #pablo picasso

[kemetic-dreams]

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #brownskin #brown skin #afrakans #epic video #african violets #African video #African girl #African kid

[horsesarecreatures]

I love this little violet windowsill. From left to right are Optimara My Darling, S. Rupicola, RS Winter Flower, Witch Doctor, R Barbaris, and Optimara Trinidad II.

#African violets #saintpaulias #gesneriads #houseplants #flowers #plantblr

[thatstarwarsbitch]

when plants are your job but the bad batch is your hyperfixation you expand your african violet collection to match the bad batch based on ✨vibes✨

#the bad batch #star wars #tbb #the bad batch season 3 #tbb crosshair #tbb hunter #crosshair #tbb spoilers #tbb omega #tbb wrecker #tbb tech #tbb echo #clone trooper echo #clone trooper crosshair #clone trooper tech #seargent hunter #arc trooper echo #african violets

[eunnuiphyte]

Happy New Year 2024!!!

New year, new blooms 💜

Wishing everyone a delicious year full of happiness!

ID: African Violet

#african violets #african violet #indoor plants #plants #eunnui #plantblr

[wheelsxx87]

#doaxvv #african violets #crayola

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

The plants I got at Hortlandia!

#episcia #drosera #haworthia #pinguicula #african violets #hortlandia

[greenhousechronicles]

Got these cute things from the thrift shop.

Added flowers, and voila!

#thrifting #african violets

[recurring-polynya]

In honor of it re-blooming, this week's houseplant spotlight is my African violet:

I bought this at the beginning of the summer. It was in a little 4" pot at the time, and had a few nice blooms. African violets are a bit higher difficulty level than I usually aim for, but my grandmother was known for being able to nurse African violets back to health. She had a big table in her front window crowded with pots of them that people had given her, practically dead, and she would coax them back to life. I wanted to grow one of my own as a fond memory of her.

So! Here are my tips and tricks!

This is a reservoir pot. The black part lifts out, and you pour water into the bottom. There are some wicks that hang down and soak up the water, delivering it to the roots. African violets have downy leaves that will be damaged by getting wet, so you never want to spritz them.

I used African violet mix, which has two advantages. (1) it's a little acidic, and (2) it barely retains water. Used in combo with the reservoir pot, the plant will get a steady supply of water to its roots without sitting in damp soil.

I keep it under an LED grow light, so it gets 12 hours a day of direct light.

After it finished its first bloom, I pinched off the spent blossoms. The blooms grow on a little stem that is very charmingly named a "peduncle". If only one or two blooms has died, you can pull off just the dead ones, but once they've all gone, you can trim out the entire peduncle. It's also good to prune off a few of the outer leaves, which gives the plant more space, lets it direct more energy to new growth, and keeps it looking nice.

And that's it! I've been super successful with this one-- it's probably twice the size it was when I got it, and it's bursting with flowers at the moment. I'm very proud of myself (and my violet)!

#houseplant spotlight #houseplants #african violets

[twoshakesofawitchsbroom]

Do any of y'all do flowers? I tripped and fell and joined the African Violet Society of America last weekend.

I swear to the gods they're like drugs. I started with one that me and the kid couldn't stand to leave to drown on the death rack at Lowe's. For like a year and a half I had, like, six plants, all of them NoID but for one. Last week I made a friend, then Saturday I went to a meeting and came home with like twenty more plants or sets of starter leaves. I'm still overwhelmed. They were all given to me.

I need more plant friends to spread the virus violets to.

#african violets #plants #gardening

[geopsych]

An interesting thing happens with this African violet. The first picture is from today, the second is last November. I keep it on a windowsill and the warmer it gets outside, the more pink its flowers get. Last winter by about February the flowers were almost completely white.

#flowers #african violets #saintpaulia #august

[twoseparatecoursesmeet]

African Violets, 1987

Mickey Crisp

#vintage #flowers #garden #african violets #mickey crisp #crisp

[horsesarecreatures]

Jersey Girl Trail, Pink Panther, VaT Monarch, & Optimara Manitoba

#african violets #gesneriads #flowers #houseplants #plantblr