This is Brug Insignis pink..notice the overall pink color that is even throughout. Brug Frosty pink has a white center and a pink edge that varies a lot each time it blooms..sometimes more pink...sometimes less.
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Brug Insignis Pink
Thanks Kyle, for looking this one up for us. I do like the full pink on this. Hope mine will survive the attack of the monster spider mites.
Kyle, Do I see serrated leaves on this or does it have smooth leaves?
SH..they are lightly toothed on this clone.
Hmm. I almost think that what I have marked as IP has smooth leaves but I could be mistaken. I'll look at it in the GH tomorrow morning. I don't go out at night now that the bear are out of hibernation.
SH..you mean you can BEARLY stand to go outside!!LOL LOL
Hmmmm...I have one that color too and is smooth leaved...do these plants have cousins? lol
Since being a newbie to brugs I have lots to learn!
Snow, it sounds like he has been to the Parking Lot reading.
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Yup Brugie, I think you're right.He's been peaking at the Parking Lot. LOL. Good thing a bear didn't come through the yard that morning. He'd still be running.
Eclipse - I received this one from Logees last spring. What do you think? Is Logees good for getting them labelled right?
Kyle, do you have a picture of Isabella?
I had a Solid Gold flower open up today and Isabella is not too far behind. My GH smells so good when you open the door. It really has a wonderful scent.The Insignus Pink is just starting to open but seems to be taking it's time. I should have three or four SG flowers open tomorrow.Can't wait to go out and look in the morning.
In the eighties (17years ago?) cant remember, I bought a insignis pink from Logees. Since it is not a true x insignis, it was named USA Rosa (Logees). The old tree is pictured in my new book. It has proven to be a very valuable breeding plant. Pollinating Rosa Traum with it I got Pink Delight. Pollinating USA Rosa with Rosa Traum, I got some excellent white suaveolens type hybrids with huge, but lasting flowers. I pictured one in the Post: Kyle, what do you think of this hybrid?
TiG....I don't have isabella so I don't have any pics of it..sorry!
Monika, I prefer the solid pink to a pink with a white center.The plant from Logees is one of several that is floating around that are called insignis pink.The form Logees calls USA rosa has more white in it.The pic I posted at the top of this thread..I use to have in my collection, but I fear it was a victim of my scaling down a few years ago.I threw out a lot of plants because at the time no one wanted them.I had tooooo many of them and several had no tags on them at the time.
And where was I when you were throwing those plants away? I never even heard of a Brug a few yrs ago but what a shame no one wanted them.
SH, it was the same in Germany. Nobody wanted brugs anymore. The early plants came from dutch nurseries, treated with growth hindering substances, that reduced them to small, flowering plants, ideal for Sale. Buyers were told to prune them down to the ground for overwintering, what they did and when they started to grow in the next year, people got a big suprise; plants sized up to 2 - 3m and no flowers at all.For more then 10 years, there was no chance to get the interest of a garden magazine for an article about Brugmansias.
When I called in 1996 Europes greatest garden magazin ' mein schöner garten ' and asked, I received a strict No.
I offered pictures of new, never before seen hybrids, No!
But when I told the lady in charge, that I breed and cultivate Brugmansias at a elevation of 6oom near a Skiressort, she didnt believe me and wanted to see it with own eyes. In 1998 then, there was a large article about my Brugmansias and new hybrids, how to cultivate and prune them correctly, so they would flower easy each year.
This was the year when the interest came back. Other garden magazines asked me to write articles, for pictures and Brugmansias are IN, so much, that dutch and belgium nurseries were traveling in 2000 through Germany, collecting what they could collect on hybrids. In 1998, they were considered of no commercial value. But the knowledge of cultivation is still small and the dutch nurseries again treat the plants with growth hindering substances to get small, handy but quick good flowering pot
plants. Most of these chemical substances are not available or allowed to use in Germany. Since german garden magazines do write about this problem, people become more and more aware of it and it might save our Brugmansias from being forgotten again.