Brug Sunset

This is 'Sunset' December 2001. It is blooming again now. Blooms start out cream to peach to gold.

I think I need to get this one! I love the orange /gold kind of flowers.

Eclipse ..I especially like how the flower starts cream, then through the colours to orange gold.
It is a vigorous grower, also .. and has bloomed all through winter. I recommend this one..
many fine qualities. Mine is large enough for cuttings now. If you would like, let me know.

This is the one they are saying is same as Maya. Anyone growing Maya and photos to compare?

I don't know if there are variations to Peaches and Cream. Mine came from Logee's a few years back.
But Sunset is not the same as the Peaches I grow.

I have heard Maya and Sunset are the same, have a wonderful new maya thanks to a special trader here. i traded away all my peaches and cream, they just grow too slow to be brugs. Abutilon, do you find sunset grows much faster than peaches and cream?

Yes, Arlene ..Sunset grows much faster and more vigorous than Peaches and Cream. I had Peaches several years now and always coaxing along. No coaxing Sunset.

Don't you just love the Maya?

There is a definite difference between the P&C and the Maya. P&C is a peach color flower where Maya is a gold color....I have both and they have both bloomed for me.

Arlene is correct Maya and Sunset are the same but there is also a Tropical Sunset that does not have Variegated leaves....have I completely confused y'all? LOL

My P. & Cream I got in trade from Florida, has white/yellow/green leaves. One I got from Washington, has white/green leaves,both peachy flowers? Wonder if I have a P. & Cream and a Maya??

Hibiscus, you can never trust names, not even from a nursery sometimes. i would think if one is growing better it might be maya.

Thanks Arlene, these were both from trades, so....?
Could be possible I have two different variegated.

After growing both Maya and Peaches and Cream, it appears that. Maya's leaves have a lot more blue in them than the P&C. In addition, the color of the P&C was very pale peach, but that could be due to heat or soil conditions. Because of the shortcomings of P&C, it would probably not be kept for cultivation by a hybridizer today. Sorry, if I insulted anyone who happens to be the hybridizer, but P&C is a very weak and difficult plant to grow. To get the variegation, too much of the vitality of the plant was sacrificed. Just a little letting off of steam from someone who has killed her share of P&C while other brugs grow by leaps and bounds under the same conditions. It leaves experienced and novice growers wondering what they did wrong, when it was a lack of vitality of the plant that was the problem.

Just my luck. I recently purchased one from Logees. It seems to be growing well but at least now if something goes wrong with it I won't blame myself.I did discover already that it seems to like the cooler corner of the greenhouse.When I had it on the table in the middle where it is warmer it looked wilted so I put it in the back corner where it is cooler and it perked right up.It's growing several new shoots and when they get a little bigger I'm going to try to root them.

Careful when you try to take cuttings from a green/tender P&C. I have experienced that they tend to rot at the point were the cutting was taken.

Thanks for your help, Barbara, I started winter with (9) P. & Cream, now down to (5), for no apparent reason, they just died??

Snow, i rooted 4-5 and didn't kill any of the P&C, it just flat grew too slow for me. when i would cut back a side shoot for rooting it would grow fast, but not the main stem, wierd. just go easy on the water when you root. maybe since it's growing well you'll be lucky and it's really maya, or maybe it likes the cool and will like your mountains.

Hibiscus, I know what you mean. I walk past my P&C and fear it will collapse. If this one dies--it is gone and banished forever. I forgot to mention that I also grow a variegated brug named Suave which is one of the European hybrids. I believe the flowers stay white. Nice sturdy, small shrub like in shape. It blooms late, very late fall. Does not root easily. The suave plant in the ground is already coming back most of the cuttings I tried to root in the greenhouse did not make it. This may be one that needs rooting in the summer. Nice looking plant.

Barbara - do you have a picture? I have a variegated with a white flower - my kill rate is high. Blooms are nodding. No change of colour in the bloom.

Barbara, thanks for the advise. I'll let the shoots grow bigger before I cut them off to root.
Arlene, what did you root yours in. I have soiless mix mostly made of sphagnum peat moss and perlite. I've been having bad luck with rooting anything in the promix but things are rooting in water just fine. Maybe I overwater or maybe they know it's still winter here and want to wait for spring to root. LOL

Liz,
I have a photo but not very good. I was away during most of its blooming. Was able to only get couple of shots before first frost.

I forget--how do I insert a photo in the message? Will send photo of Suave if I knew how.

Barbara, start a new thread, and there will be a box to upload your picture in. Just hit browse, and point it to your picture file.