I lost all but 5 of my Brugs late 2007 and had to start over again. So this is the largest number of blooms I've seen in 2 years. Wahoo! Some of the blooms are a little battered, but I love them just the same. I took the photographs last night. This is Mountain Magic beginning to color.
Second flush for Jacayna. She has two blooms again. Thay had just opened up and are still in the white stage. I love her 6 pointers.
I just love Audrey Hepburn. She is one of the few survivors from my first Brug collection. She seems to be in bloom almost all the time. She is easy to grow, healthy and sets pods like crazy.
This is a close up of Audrey Hepburn. This one of my favorite Brug forms.
Rubirosa is loaded with blooms in both the white and colored stage, but this is my favorite Rubirosa pose
I'm crazy about variegated plants. Maya is one of the easiest variegated Brugs to grow.
Wild & Crazy is still under a foot high, but has already produced 2 flushes. She is so willing to bloom!
I almost lost Majestic Belle, but she has gamely produced 2 blooms — a little pale and small — but ...
Kelly Ann actually grew from 1' to over 5' with very little grasshopper damage. She has a few caterpillar holes, but otherwise healthy.
My original Creamsickle died down in the greenhouse winter of 2007-08. I thought I had lost her so I bought a replacement. My original Creamsickle resprouted last summer, "Y"ed early this spring and produced 2 flushes before getting girdled and losing most of her bark to grasshoppers. She finally died in August. In all the years I had her, she never had distorted blooms.
All 8 blooms of the replacement Creamsickle are distorted. The second skirt is stuck in some blooms and others are puckered or distorted. I'm wondering if this is truly Creamsickle. These are two of the 8 blooms distorted blooms.
Lastly, this is Miss Emily MacKenzie. She has a number of big, big blooms.
Grasshoppers and caterpillars have not been my only problems this year. We have 25 calves, mostly bull calves, in the pasture surrounding the house. They have learned to look for weaknesses in the electric fence and to check to see if I have forgotten to close the gate. They have gained access twice this week. They are not after the Brugs, but the grass growing nearby. Unfortunately, in their eagerness to get to the grass, they knock the pots over or in a few cases, they have stepped on the pots.
MEM was knocked over long enough for the blooms to bend slightly.
Here in Texas we take our blooms when and how we can get them. A few years ago we had a very hot and dry Summer. We got very few blooms all year, then it cooled off and the Brugs started loading themselves up with buds. We then had an early frost and never got to see many blooms. We went out the day before the frost and cut all the Brugs to the ground and cut them back to good rooting stems. As we were cutting off all those buds we were constantly stepping on the buds that were falling on the ground. The pop, pop, pop was just breaking my heart but that the way it sometimes is in Texas. I am happy for you Veronica and thanks for sharing.
Veronica
all your Blooms are Georgeous, I bet it smells great, I am glad you have blooms, thank you for sharing your beauty's
Elizabeth
