Happy 4th....lets see blooms and the flag flying

Well.. if possible..lets see what's blooming.. pictured with the flag flying.. to start the celebration for the 4th of July..
pictured here is Goldenes Kornet X Margrethe a cross by Tony in Denmark.. a big trunked brug... tall with tiny blooms.. of a lovely form.. It's about 10' tall now... but it's early in the season... :) but it's doing it's best to help us remember the 4 th..
it was just a few days late ... as it's mother was the featured Brug for the month of June on the BGI Brug calandar...

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here's another bloomer for today... and hopefully on the 4th also... as there are lots more buds in the wings...
Kelly Anne.. the picture shows a lovely almost lilac tint to it... which is pretty accurate with the sun shining through the flowers in the morning

Very pretty Gordon, I love the small blooms!
I have buds but no blooms as yet.
Thanks for posting!
Karen

Well.. here's another getting into the festivities also.. with more on the way... a 7' tall Mountain Treasure...
OH.. I've got to get a new fertilizer I'm on my way out to find it now... not alot of local folks with it in stock... but floks I've talked to have all loved it... one friend got sold on it by an enthusiastic nursery man a year or two ago... and she loved it... as did the gardener of my local park.. and it does hold 28 world plant records... like blooms on a Chrysanthemum of 7794 blooms.... the real selling point for me along with the variety of formulations and different specific plant targeting..
6-6-6
4-6-8
6-5-6
4-6-7
4-6-6
5-6-7
is along with the micronutrients... they all have a big dose of Magnesieum.. to promote absorbition by the plants... as I was mentioning this to the friend who is the longtime user of it she said that the calcium she takes has a rider of the magnesieum also to promote absorbition of the calcium into her body... just like it does for plants to get them to absorb the nutrients there... so we aren't so different after all...
http://algoflash.com/WorldRecords.htm
there's the records page....you can click above once there...go to the catalog part from there

Gordon
Happy 4th of July, your Brugs are Georgeous as usual, keep the Pic's coming, I love the Mountain Treasure, hopefully mine will get that big by the end of the growing
season, Thank you for posting your Beauty's

Elizabeth

Gordon,
I love your photos. I don't have any blooms to share today. I did have Xena and Katie's Sweet Sixteen in bloom earlier this week. My Goldenes Kornet X Margrethe seedling is 6' tall, but she decided to send up a second trunk soon after you sent her to me. The first trunk has "Y"ed and has teeny tiny buds. I can't wait to see what her flowers will look like. The blooms on yours look creamy yellow. Is that their true color?

You are so correct about the thick trunk. Mine will have to be a double trunked standard for me. I would be afraid to try to root such a large and thick cutting.

Veronica.. My GK x M is more an ivory white.. not really a yellow at all... there's perhaps a glow from yellow leaves near by.. :)... despite removing 100's of them every morning.. the bloom booster ferts has them yellowing constantly..
here.'s one of todays begining opening displays... Peach Parfait ...AKA Maya..

Doosie has a flush going. Not all have gotten their color yet. I bought this one last year but it didn't bloom for me. I overwintered it in my DH workshop. I kept the temperature around 50 to 55 and it never lost it's leaves. It has put out a few blooms already but this is the first actual flush.

here's Rosella.. also starting today for the celebration

I'll have to go out and spray more Ortho Max after the rain stops. I have to have a grasshopper free shade house. The have eaten almost all the leaves off a few Brugs including my Maya.

My Doosie is growing slowly. I bought it last summer, but it didn't do much growing. Instead it went downhill til there was only a stub and 1 long root left. I put it into a 4" pot and kept it dryish. It has been growing slowly, but at least it's in the right direction.

My GH x M needs a larger pot. It really is a vigorous grower.

Another starting today is Lugers Summer Dream... I'm not sure if it came out for the 4th... or if it wanted to be out this morning to see Germany 4- 0 over Argentina... LSD looks like a real contender for the gold cup ... go Luger...

I have Rosella.. there... that is it's first day... and I have one called Dark Rosella... and again as a cross..... and other crosses with one called Double Dark Rosella... DDR ... none have been neither dark or double for me in the offspring.. or the parent... it was the biggest suprise last year to see DR as such a light flower... might be what the state of the art was like when it was named.. years ago... or a SNAFU .. or being pushed to grow faster then it could color up here..

I am working on a new variegated look to some leaves


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here's another picture of GK X M .. it's an ivory color with a tiny bit of yellow streaking down... but then it's it's first day also..

The leaves on my Doosie look different than my other brugs. They want to curl up. I can't find anything on them that would make it do that. Finally decided that's just what it does.

Veronica... that's actually Dark Rosella... here it is later with more blooms open.. but as you observed.. not dark for me...

awsome, Gordon. I do not know if you remember sending me a seed. it was tagged Axel Rose X Ludgers Windsong.
You also set me a >B Arborea , they grew as seedlings last year with no blooms.
Here is Axel X LWS June 23rd, will take one tommorrow and hopefully the sun will be shining.

Here is B Arborea out front lower right in front of the honda wheel. I will also take a better picture of that one from you.
I have had fun watching them grow. Thank You
Happy Independence Day to you and yours.

Well... who could this be.... from the looks of it it must be Georgia Peach.. with it's blush pink and yellow blends... good enough to eat.. and with her flag..

Aww she is pretty. Happy Fourth to you Mr Gordon.

Well.. than you MS Debra .. Good growing there... keep up the pioneering efforts..
I don't know if they will load this... a night time panarama.. the brugs are in there... the photo is just to give the aroma of dozens of diffrent ones blooming together in the evening.. truely what it all gets done for...

Hello and happy July 4th to you and yours. Gordon, your Georgia Peach is lovely, I especially love those long whiskers.

I'm slow to get my Brugs. off to a good start this season. Currently I've only 'Halo Peach' two mere blooms. Had a 'Versi Apricot' bloom several weeks ago. But, that's all.

Well...KIM...thanks ... finally another flag.. they should take off with the increased light off the water there... stand back... that picture looks like what it will be like if I ever get myself onto a sail boat... a wide deck filled with plants.. and vines growing up the mast... have a great summer there ... see ya soon...
oh...got to find a new picture

Well... maybe some honeysuckle and the flag...

this is the back 1/2... through the trellis two pictures ago...
Kim.. tie Jim up.. and throw him in the car and come by for a visit here... plenty of great food.. of every type... and your complementary beverage of choice also..

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