Jessie Noel from a distance

Here is a picture of Jessie Noel by the Gazebo. Jessie Noel is a Whisker(Aurea Gold X Charles Grimaldi) x Charles Grimaldi Hybrid.
This picture was taken in August...the plant is taller now.

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Is that in the ground glory? Love that shade of yellow. Does it open up that color?

Glory, If I must say so again then I must, that Noel is a simply stunning hybrid. I can't wait to see your seedlings from your next cross.

she's just beautiful Gloria!!! beautiful.

Gloria, Just beautiful!!

Thanks all.

Brugman,
Lets hope we get something really different this time...like a red..wouldn't that be something if it happened...I know it's just not likely but you know stranger things have happened with seeds. I have planted see for a yellow ground cover and ended up with every color but yellow. lol

Glory how on earth do you grow all the seedlings to blooming size? You're lucky - you can keep them in the ground. I need to get me one of those huge greenhouses.

Poppy,
Right now I have baby Brugs outside on my deck, in my greenhouse, behind the greenhouse...everywhere.:) This winter they will all go in the greenhouse. I try and get rid of all the one gallon size that I have hanging around except for the babies.
I do have to cut my Brug back in the fall...we are not a frost free zone...almost but not quite. I'm in the same zone as the FL panhandle.

Will the seedlings go in he ground next year? Just curious. I think it was brugman that mentioned somewhere he grows his seedlings in rows and thins them out from there. That's how I grow my perennials. It used to be a veggie garden but now it's a perennial nursery bed. The trouble is it gets much more care ... it usually looks better than my regular gardens -LOL.

Poppysue-
Thats very true-...on another note-My Butterfly x Isabella seed started to germinate yesterday. Heres hoping I get as lucky as Glory.

Brugman,
Please....you don't need luck...because you know what you are doing. LOL

Glory,
I asked a real hybridizer once, how many seeds does it take to get a winning hybrid. His answer, Just one seed, but it sure helps to have the numbers. He also said that if one hybridizes with dogs one gets dogs, if one hybridizes with cats you get cats. Working with hybrids that are already great helps increase ones chances of getting a winning hybrid, but it does not insure it.

Brugman,
your friend was right...you never know.

Poppy,
I'm not as lucky as Brugman..I have very limited afternoon shade here so a lot of the babies will have to stay in pots and bloom there. I also stick some of them in my compost pile just where ever I can find a place. LOL I like Brugman get rid of the babies if the plants start looking ugly...don't grow very well and etc. You just can't keep them all. I think that the pod Jessie Noel, Becca Lynn, Old Glory and Biloxi Bell came from I had about 50 seedlings. but only ended up with 4 plants.

I would love a few seeds if you ever have extras.

Glory - I plant stuff in my compost pile too =) Plants grow fabulous there ... and then I'm reluctant to use my compost when I need it.

Glory,
I think that is important-thining out the weak ones. I would much rather have a Brugmansia that flowered within 9 months from seed then another that took 5 years from seed. My reason for that is simple, one can always work for bloom characteristics from what one has selected that has bloomed within a year or 2 years max. Creating faster growing/maturing hybrids with beautiful shapes, colors,fragrance, and even leaf shapes...well lets just say I want it all in a Brug and that takes time. One has to set a goal and stick with it. If all one wants is a beautiful flower and one does not care how long it takes to get that size or mature then one can do that as well, just cross the two prettiest flowers one has together, grow them all up and hope to get one lucky one. It may just be that the slowest grower is the prettiest.

Brugcrazy,
I still owe you seeds off the double/triple yellow datura...haven't forgotten..when I send those I'll send you some I have right now on a suavelons White..they sould be ready any day now.

Glory: TIA - No parcel yet. Getting mail from the States that was mailed mid. Sept. You should have yours in 4 or 5 days.

brugcrazy,
Is the mail to Canada from the US always that slow or just lately? I can send a package FEDEX to my brother in Australia and he has it in two days but the cost is $35.00 also. lol

No the mail is slow because of 9-11. It got all backed up and I think customs is going through everything quite carefully these days. Plus your mail system seems faster and cheaper than ours. I sent a package xpresspost to Paul and it got from BC to Quebec in 2 days. But if you send it regular post, it's really slow. Think they use a donkey and a cart.LOL