According to the Preissel book the Cypress Gardens Brug might be self-pollinating..here is what it says:
B. versicolor"Cyperss Gardens"...Selected by Lee Rathbun from the B. versicolor that often grows in gardens in FL, its flowers are pale almond-colored. The variety flowers continually in the favorable climatic conditions in FL and is apparently self-pollinating, as almost every flower sets a fruit.
Very interesting!!!!!
FYI about Cypress Gardens
Glory
Jan 07, 2002
Can't remember ... Is Cypress Gardens a double? That is interesting.
Gloria, i had cypress gardens that i got late and so it bloomed in late fall, it didn't turn very almond which may have been the weather, but i really liked brugman's white versicolor Xs that were blooming at the same time better. is that the only one that may be self pollinating? another one of brugman's Xs made a pod with almost every flower. It was my first brug to set a seed, after it started blooming i started getting seed pods on almost everything.
never saw a seed pod on my cypress, but it was really late blooming....
Confession: i shovel pruned 4 brugs this fall!!!!! i remember almost fainting when brugman talked about using roundup on them.
Glory
Jan 07, 2002
No, it's a single.
Here is a picture of it.
http://www2.netdoor.com/~hward/w_cypressgarden.jpg
gloria, do i have that one, lol
jen
aka. catapillar killer
Glory
Jan 08, 2002
Jen,
No..not yet...but you will. LOL
Jen
Have you been killing caterpillars again? I was in the green house spraying like crazy. I turned the heat up a bit because of this cold weather and I think the spider mites and aphids came out in full force. I sprayed everything from top to bottom.
I got aphids too...bummer!
Cypress Gardens is a very common versicolor for Florida and was one of my first versicolors. I don't know about it being self fertile, but I can tell you alba is more productive in the yard when you have two of them the same size. I have never actually tried to isolate Cypress Gardens by itself to see if it would set a seed to itself, but I can tell you I have seen seedpods form on hybrids by themselves grown quite a few blocks away from other Brugmansia due to moths and such.
Arlene,
Cypress Gardens does indeed have almond to very light peach sides on occassion. So light though I would still call it a white though definitly not a true white.